Natz comparison

I'll go if it doesn't rain.

Registered Riders

1. Gary Douville The race favorite. About the only thing that could possibly stop Gary would be the slew of California wildfires blazing in his backyard. The fires would need to surround the house and be large enough such that Gary wouldn't risk limb nor hair (well his coif anyhow), to salvage his bike stable. This is all very doubtful since he loaded up the car and did multiple laps between the office and home. Being resourceful, he could also come up with a bike on the East coast.


2. Jeff Dickey Having launched a reasonable CAT2/3 career this year Jeff looks like he's got fitness. He's also done the '07 nationals and placed 7th. So he knows what it takes- yet the terrain is normally different from what this boys used to. Can't help but wonder if this is that Dickey that rides single speed endurance stuff... wonder.


3. Pierre Vanden Borre. Pierre has me beat at some cross races over the past year and seems to be just out of reach on the road with all his CAT3 buddies. We'll see what he brings to the table, though I suspect it's some goodness.


4. Anthony Snoble and Noah Meineke. Noah and Anthony might as well team-up since they finish 2007 nationals holding hands and skipping though the finish line together. These two guys are just going to duke it out between themsleves nad end up blowing up. Given comparison to local talent I should be able to overtake them.


5. Andrew Messer - Currently he's got some good results. Last year looks like a disaster for him though. Might have been a mechanical or a bout with the gout, who knew?


6. Thomas Fenush. This guy only has ONE result in his history. Not that that means too much in this world, but I would not take a kid who told me he's only worked at Wendys.


7. Steve Wallace - beat him by 2 min at Coyote


8. Steven Mancuso (NJ) looks like he gives Noah a good lickin' by about 10 minutes. Might want to pace myself off this guy.


9. Joe DeVault (OH) not much in the way of posted results. Plus I can't take these guys who aren't racing in the North-East who are Cat'in up like it's their job.


10. Jason Selwitz (NY). NOT quite sure why he does one series as a Sport and makes the leap to Expert for the MTB nationals. Probably going into this dragging some Sport-a-licious mentality.


11. Erick Marklund just 1 usac result


12. John Kirkwood (NC). I just don't take these guys from NC or OH seriously. PLUS they have got to lug their bike out of Logan. We all know how much fun Boston is. Forget it if this guy is DRIING up now.


13. Christoper McGill just came off of a big competition like Masters Road. Looks legit when he actually finishess a race.

Update:
Ok, well it rained like mad for about an hour between 12 and 1am. The storm was about the same up there, but it happend at 11pm.

Wondering if I'll move from MTB rank 1192 (1445pts)
Rank jumped to 764
For comparison MG is ranked 1162 (1441pts)