It wasn’t quite like the triple header into the sand pit of the viral video from Kansas City, but the typical barriers were quite a challenge for even the elite at the Zipp OVCX Series race #2, St. Mary’s Childcare Cyclocross at Indianapolis’ Fort Harrison State Park.  The barriers came after a 150 meter section with only a soft curve as a hindrance to speed. On warm up, many of the nearly 500 registered riders were coming into them hot, way hot.  According to Women’s Elite winner Katie Arnold (Bob’s Red Mill), “On the first lap a couple of us got caught up in the barriers and Ashley (James-KCCX/Fuji p/b Challenge Tires) saw her chance and took off, leaving Niki (aka AnnaJean Dallaire-Papa John’s Racing) and I behind to chase.”



In the women’s elite race, as the OVCX Zipp Female athlete of the week, Arnold pushed her loaner carbon 303 wheels to the limit.  “I crashed going up the big hill.  Yes I crashed going ‘up’ hill.  Who does that?”  That allowed Dallaire to come around her.  To Arnold’s credit, the climb was split into three technical sections criss-crossing the hill, forcing riders to navigate off camber changes in direction all the way up.  She dug deep, caught and passed Dallaire back and started working her way up to James.

The high speed off-camber eventually caught up to James and that’s where Arnold closed the gap.  “I'm pretty sure she (James) crashed right before the climb section.  I caught her on the road right after that.  She said that she thought she was getting a flat, and seemed to be struggling a bit to keep up the pace.  So I just put my head down, went around her and was able to open up a pretty good gap!”  Arnold, with James at 1:00, and Dallaire another :30 made up the St Mary's elite women's podium.

Fresh off a breakthrough 3rd place at the mid-week St. Louis’ Gateway Cross Cup behind Ben Berden and Jonathan Page, Joshua Johnson (Bissell-ABG-Nuvo) hopped the barriers and never looked back taking the win in the men’s elite race.  For at least a lap the cowbells rang hard as Andrew Dillman (Bob’s Red Mill) chased up from a race day registration back row start to close within ten seconds of Johnson.  However heroic, it was short lived.  Dillman, just hours off a morning win at a MWCCC collegiate mountain bike race at nearby Purdue, started to crack, eventually fading to 18th.  Two minutes behind Johnson, Dillman’s teammate Mitchell Kersting kept up the chase and maintained the gap for a solid 2nd.  Christopher Bogedin (Wolverine Racing) rounded out the podium seconds behind Kersting.  Elite Men and Women results below.  All categories at USA Cycling.

Johnson wasn’t the only one at OVCX hopping the barriers.  Check out the video of U19 Junior Gavin Haley (Red Zone Cycling) taking them at high speed here on You Tube.

Congratulations to this week's Zipp OVCX’s Athletes of Week: Scott Baumer (Indiebike.com p/b Angies List) and Terry Meek (Don Walker Cycles Racing).  Baumer upgraded from Cat 3 last week and placed 10th out of 60 in his first elite men's race.  Terry, after taking some time off with her career, has shown her old fast self this season.  She attacked early at St Mary’s to finish up in 6th place in the elite women's wave.  OVCX Athletes of the week will get to race a set of Zipp 303 Firecrest tubulars at this coming Saturday’s OVCX #3 Caesars Ford CX in Xenia, OH.  

The OVCX Series is presented by Zipp, Papa John's Pizza, RoadID, BikeReg and Capitol Bicycles.

Finally, according to the OVCX Facebook Page here are “The Top 5 Symptoms of a Monday Morning Cyclocross Hangover”:

5: Playing C.S.I. Cyclocross, by examining bruises and figuring out where they came from.

4: The compulsion to seek and tag photos before paying work actually begins.

3: First rule of Fight Club: don’t talk about Fight Club.

2: My cowbell is sore.

1: Heckling co-workers as they walk by.

Men - Elite Men

  
 

Place 

Points 

Name

City, State

Time 

USAC #

Bib

Team

  

 

1

154.15

Joshua Johnson   

Fort Wayne, IN

1:01:56 

257134  

21 

Bissell-ABG-Nuvo

  

 

2

157.71

Mitchell Kersting   

Louisville, KY

1:03:46 

237344  

27 

Bobs Red Mill

  

 

3

161.26

Christopher Bogedin   

Rochester Mi

1:08:34 

254352  

19 

Wolverine Racing Elite CX

  
 

4

164.82

Robert Kendall   

Louisville, KY

1:03:54 

117036  

719 

Papa John's Racing Team

  
 

5

168.38

Eric Anderson   

Indianapolis, IN

1:03:54 

42611  

7 

Zipp Factory Team

  
 

6

171.93

Michael McShane   

Louisville, KY

1:03:57 

23836  

331 

Bob's Red Mill Cyclocross Team

  
 

7

175.49

Andrew Messer   

Bloomington, IN

1:04:05 

212310  

708 

DRT Racing pb Revolution Bike & Bean

  
 

8

179.04

David (Shawn) Adams   

Akron, OH

1:04:06 

179664  

13 

Cycle-Smart

  
 

9

182.60

Chad Tieman   

Leo, IN

1:04:28 

292101  

10 

Team Upland p/b Sustainable Cycling

  
 

10

186.16

Scott Baumer   

Indianapolis, IN

1:05:07 

353428  

1 

indiebike.com p/b Angie's List

  
 

11

189.71

Anthony Viton   

Bexley, OH

1:05:10 

288957  

3 

BSM Cycling

  
 

12

193.27

Frederick Rose   

Bloomington, IN

1:05:11 

30553  

326 

Bob's Red Mill Cyclocross Team

  
 

13

196.83

Jason Monk   

Lexington, KY

1:05:16 

267995  

5 

Team WHAYNE

  
 

14

200.38

David Hauber   

Clarksville, IN

1:05:29 

209979  

17 

Bicycle Sport Inc. /Rooibee Red Tea

  
 

15

203.94

Adam Rodkey   

Bloomington, IN

1:05:30 

167200  

717 

Speedway Wheelmen

  
 

16

207.49

Raymond Smith   

Louisville, KY

1:05:50 

292526  

9 

Bob's Red Mill Cyclocross Team

  
 

17

211.05

John Gatch   

Terrace Park, OH

1:05:50 

153866  

333 

RGF Cleveland Clinic

  
 

18

214.61

Andrew Dillman   

Fairdale, KY

1:05:51 

261876  

29 

Bobs RedMill

  
 

19

218.16

Christopher Uberti   

Cincinnati, OH

1:05:55 

238311  

20 

Team Racing Cyclocross

  
 

20

221.72

Keith Lucas   

Custer, KY

1:06:05 

209624  

332 

Be Real Sports - Fitness Matters CX Team

  
 

21

225.28

Luke Haley   

Louisville, KY

NOCHIP 

259716  

26 

Bobs RedMill

  
 

22

228.83

Nolan McQueen   

Louisville, KY

1:06:13 

298828  

18 

Bob's Red Mill Cyclocross Team

  
 

23

232.39

Timothy Beirne   

Louisville, KY

1:07:02 

57060  

329 

Better Cycling/Papa Johns

  
 

24

235.94

James Billiter   

Cincinnati, OH

1:07:02 

285273  

2 

BioWheels/Reece-Campbell Racing

  
 

25

239.50

Johnathan Freter   

Columbus, OH

1:07:23 

266654  

16 

Don Walker Cycles Racing P/B Shimano

  
 

26

243.06

John Mandrola   

Louisville, KY

1:07:45 

201258  

330 

Papa Johns Racing Team

  
 

27

246.61

Samuel Dobrozsi   

Loveland, OH

1:07:59 

235804  

24 

Swallow Bicycle Works

  
 

28

250.17

Daniel Ott   

Cincinnati, OH

-5LAP 

200121  

714 

Darkhorse Racing

  
 

29

253.73

Christopher Nevitt   

Louisville, KY

1:08:15 

259511  

8 

Scheller's Racing Team

  
 

30

257.28

William Sherman   

Indianapolis, IN

1:08:18 

134321  

706 

Shamrock Cycles

  
 

31

260.84

Nick Dietrich   

Prospect, KY

1:08:37 

285648  

14 

Midwest Devo

  
 

32

264.40

Michael Crouch   

Nashville, TN

-1LAP 

294954  

12 

Swiftwick Factory Racing p/b Cumberland Transit

  
 

33

267.95

Peter Hills   

Loveland, OH

-1LAP 

117544  

701 

Merrill Lynch Cycling

  
 

34

271.51

Michael Schulze   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

155831  

325 

BioWheels/Reece-Campbell Racing

  
 

35

275.06

Brian Andriot   

Louisville, KY

-1LAP 

275805  

704 

Bicycle Sport Inc. / Rooibee Red Tea

  
 

36

278.62

Steve Bivens   

Evansville, IN

-1LAP 

257617  

712 

Breck's Bicycle Shop

  
 

37

282.18

David Neis   

Yellow Springs, OH

-1LAP 

276289  

715 

Merrill Lynch Cycling

  
 

38

285.73

Matthew Lerner   

Louisville, KY

-1LAP 

207727  

718 

Schellers Fitness and Cycling

  
 

39

289.29

Nathan Mirus   

Batavia, OH

-1LAP 

280756  

723 

BioWheels

  
 

40

292.85

Jeff Schoeny   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

277142  

703 

Merrill Lynch Cycling

  
 

41

296.40

Kirk Grynwald   

Crestwood, KY

-1LAP 

309572  

710 

Don Walker Racing

  
 

42

299.96

Chad Burdzilauskas   

Indianapolis, IN

-1LAP 

122674  

28 

Fitness Lab

  
 

43

303.51

Timothy Hall   

Leo, IN

NOCHIP 

115242  

711 

Fort Wayne Outfitters and Bike Depot

  
 

44

307.07

Micheal Jernigan   

Lexington, KY

-1LAP 

178469  

700 

Justin's Nut Butters

  
 

45

310.63

Joseph Bellante   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

199092  

328 

BioWheels/Reece-Campbell Racing

  
 

46

314.18

Ryan O'Connor   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

91766  

724 

Barbasol

  
 

47

317.74

Cory Swihart   

Indianapolis, IN

NOCHIP 

277488  

4 

team indiebike P/B Angies List

  
 

48

321.30

Blaine Heppner   

Louisville, KY

-1LAP 

256278  

713 

Don Walker Cycles Racing

  
 

49

324.85

James O'Loughlin   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

285530  

720 

TEAM HUNGRY*

  
 

50

328.41

Mitchell Graham   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

119773  

716 

BioWheels/Reece-Campbell Racing

  
 

51

331.96

David Wagoner   

Warsaw, IN

-1LAP 

82334  

722 

Aldefer Bergen

  
 

52

335.52

Michael Lantz   

Indianapolis, IN

-1LAP 

47277  

334 

Nashville Cyclist.com

  
 

53

339.08

David Hart   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

166902  

327 

ZWS Bertolli

  
 

54

342.63

Brian Collier   

Burlington, KY

-2LAP 

284326  

721 

BioWheels/Reece-Campbell Racing

  
 

55

346.19

Tom Brockman   

Louisville, KY

  

257632  

707 

Bicycle Sport Inc. / Rooibee Red Tea

  
 

56

349.75

Clayton Omer   

Louisville, KY

  

188242  

23 

Papa John's Racing Team

  
 

57

353.30

David Musich   

Anchorage, KY

  

25574  

709 

Scheller's Racing Team

  
 

58

356.86

Kyle Perry   

Indianapolis, IN

  

240005  

11 

Team Upland

  
 

59

360.42

Sam Klontz   

Cincinnati, OH

  

296965  

6 

BSM Cycling

  
 

60

363.97

Michael Kennedy   

Louisville, KY

  

256322  

705 

Scheller's CXecutioners

  

 
Women - Elite Women

  
 

Place 

Points 

Name

City, State

Time 

USAC #

Bib

Team

  

 

1

165.77

Katie Arnold   

Columbus, OH

0:42:02 

344864  

655 

Bob's Red Mill

  

 

2

175.02

Ashley James   

Dousman, WI

0:43:09 

219841  

657 

KCCX/Fuji p/b Challenge Tires

  

 

3

184.28

AnnaJean Dallaire   

Louisville, KY

0:43:30 

217836  

656 

Pappa Johns Racing

  
 

4

193.53

Jessica Owings   

Nashville, TN

-1LAP 

313558  

304 

MOAB Cyclocross

  
 

5

202.78

Mary Penta   

Louisville, KY

-1LAP 

104027  

306 

VO2 Multisport

  
 

6

212.04

Teri Meek   

Lebanon, OH

-1LAP 

282273  

654 

Don Walker Cycles Racing

  
 

7

221.29

Bridget Donovan   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

119776  

552 

BioWheels/Reece-Campbell Racing

  
 

8

230.55

Kiersta Tucker   

Louisville, KY

-1LAP 

258820  

653 

Wood N Wave

  
 

9

239.80

Katherine Santos   

Louisville, KY

-1LAP 

302383  

982 

Red Zone Cycling

  
 

10

249.05

Sierra Siebenlist   

Indianapolis, IN

-1LAP 

166038  

651 

Matthews Bicycles

  
 

11

258.31

Elizabeth Cobb   

Bloomington, IN

-1LAP 

302950  

652 

Bob's Red Mill Cyclocross Team

  
 

12

267.56

Cooper Ambjorn   

Covington, KY

-1LAP 

299864  

551 

Team Hungry

  
 

13

276.82

Geraldine Schulze   

Cincinnati, OH

-1LAP 

293521  

554 

BioWheels/Reece-Campbell Racing

  
 

14

286.07

Janelle Renschler   

Indianapolis, IN

-1LAP 

261856  

556 

Speedway Wheelmen

  
 

15

295.32

Nicole Borem   

Warsaw, IN

-1LAP 

184390  

557 

Don Walker Cycles Racing

  
 

16

304.58

Staci Mandrola   

Louisville, KY

-1LAP 

326810  

555 

Papa Johns Racing Team

  
 

17

313.83

Rebecca Zink   

Indianapolis, IN

-1LAP 

278382  

301 

Shamrock Cycles

  
 

18

323.08

Bridget Sempsrott   

Maineville, OH

-1LAP 

293120  

305 

BioWheels/Reece-Campbell Racing

  
 

19

332.34

Valarie Gossage   

Shelbyville, IN

-1LAP 

298474  

303 

Speedway Wheelmen

  
 

20

341.59

Lindsay Rodkey   

Bloomington, IN

-1LAP 

242247  

300 

Speedway Wheelmen

  
 

21

350.85

Karen Elmore   

Elizabethtown, KY

-1LAP 

127098  

553 

Outdoor Ventures

  
 

22

360.10

Emily Falk   

Louisville, KY

-1LAP 

296089  

981 

Red Zone Cycling