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April Athlete Updates

5/3/2017

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Big congrats to Lori Nedescu and Alex Driscoll on completing their first Tour of the Gila this past weekend! . This was Lori’s first ever @uciwomencycling stage race finish and she had the unique experience of helping her Rise Racing teammate @jamiebikies win the green points jersey! She also finished a very respectable 30th on the grueling "Gila Monster” stage on day 5. Amazing for a first time outing. Thanks again to @riseracing and @tourofthegila for connecting Lori with the team and giving her this incredible opportunity. . Alex spent a good part of the week doing a lot of work helping to defend his @cosracing teammate’s high GC placing. Unfortunately, during the Stage 4 criterium, a rider from another team slid out on the last lap and took down Alex and one of his teammates. Both were pretty banged up but were able to start and finish the final day’s stage. Alex even spent a good part of the morning on Stage 5 in the early break! . Super proud of both of these athletes! #progression #raisethebar #togetherwerise #racebold #coachinglife #cyclinglife #cyclingphotos

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Super excited for Alex Driscoll and Lori Nedescu @cadencekitchen as they start their first ever @tourofthegila tomorrow! Alex will be racing with his @cosracing team out of Colorado in the Cat 1/2 race and Lori will be making her first @uciwomencycling start as a guest rider for @rise_racing (thanks for giving her the opportunity)! I was fortunate to start and finish 5 editions of Gila and it rates as one of my all time favorite (and most challenging) events. Good luck to both of these awesome riders and everyone starting this amazing event tomorrow! □□‍♀️□□□□□#raisethebar #progression #coachinglife #racebold #gila2017 #cyclinglife

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Weekend race highlights: . Congrats to Brad Sponaugle on taking 5th overall at the Hagerstown Duathlon in MD and Coach Alex Driscoll on taking 3rd at the Front Range Classic ITT in Colorado! . Awesome to get the chance to race alongside @bikesunnybike with @bikedoctorracing and see him on the podium with a strong 3rd at the Elkridge Spring Classic in MD! #coachinglife #progression #racebold #raisethebar #bikedoctor

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Sometimes its about racing, sometimes it just about enjoying the ride! Clockwise from top: . Jay Lowell takes in some vacation time in Florida; Lori Nedescu enjoys the spring weather in OH as she looks forward to Tour of the Gila this week; my Thunder Bay, ON crew of Rob Coffey & Jen Bell get outside for their first outdoor rides of the year with spring finally creeping into the great white north! . Jose Solis is trying to start a revolution in Boston, sneaking in a ride while supporting his wife at the Boston Marathon; and Jay ShalekBriski gets out for a soul ride in Japan before a work and racing trip to the US for a few weeks! #coachinglife

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Fantastic weekend for Otterhaus athletes: . Lori Nedescu forced the winning break again this weekend and took the win at the Hueston Woods Road Race in OH! . Rhandie Thompson won the Florida State Time Trial Champs in the 30-34 Age Group! . Sunny Gill rode to a strong 2nd out of a 4 up break in heavy crosswinds at the Farmersville RR in PA! . Bradley Sponaugle took 2nd overall at the Race 2 Zion 5k in Williamsport MD! . Jose Solis took a hard fought 8th at the 80 mi Foothills Cup Road Race in NC! #coachinglife #raisethebar #progression

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Great to see lots of happy bike racers this weekend! Big congrats to Lori Nedescu! She initiated and drove an early 4 up break that stuck to the finish and took second at the Nelsonville RR in Ohio! Big smiles from Jose Solis, Sunny Gill and Chris Burns who all had strong rides at the Jefferson Cup Road Race this weekend in VA. Chris unfortunately went down in the finale of his race but has already bounced back ok! Stefan Zavislan and Rhandie Thompson both gained some national level stage race experience at the Joe Martin Stage Race in AR. Strong rides by both with the highlight being Stefan’s 10th in the opening time trial! #raisethebar #racebold #progression #coachinglife

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March Athlete Updates!

4/3/2017

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What a weekend for playing bikes! . Stefan Zavislan got his first Kermesse experience in Hoogstraeten, Belgium. We think he is hooked! Good luck to him racing the Joe Martin Stage Race this upcoming week. . Jay ShalekBriski got a huge training weekend in Japan, and this great black and white shot. . Coach George helped support the Black Hills Circuit Race in MD as part of Team Bike Doctor. Great to see Team Integrity's Chris Burns with a strong showing in the Cat 4 race; Nessim Mezrahi and Sunny Gill both doing some great work to support their DVR and Bike Doctor teammates in the winning move in the 1/2 race; and David Flaten impressively surfing the 1/2 field on his MTB (yes he is getting a road bike again soon!). □: @velogirl22. . Brad Sponaugle took the win in the C race and the overall series win at the Team Integrity Winter Training Race Series in WV. The old coach won the A race and series overall with Tyler Waldron taking 3rd on the day and second in the series. Great training race venue and organization, hope Team Integrity carries on with this event next year and more MABRA and PA Cycling folks come out to support. □: @mr1photo and Ruth Fedor Burns. . And finally Rhandie Thompson pulled a strong 6th at the Velobrew Crit in Florida, capping off his preps for his first Joe Martin Stage Race next week!

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Great crew at today's Beginner Racer Clinic at the Team Integrity Winter Race Series! Awesome to help these 12 riders improve their skills! □ ❄️ □ #coachinglife #cyclinglife

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Athlete updates from the past couple of weeks! . Congrats to Wes Anderson on setting a 15k PR and taking 2nd in his age group at the 7th Get Pumped for Pets Run on Kent Island, MD! . Rafael Amorganda took part in the 40th Annual Cape Town Cycling Tour in South Africa this weekend, the world's largest timed cycling event with over 35,000 riders taking part. Unfortunately, the event was shortened due to severe winds that were blowing riders off the road, but he made it through safely and got a chance to ride with the Jensie! . Jay ShalekBriski took his first win of the year at the Risner Century Race in Okinawa Japan after breaking away solo for 20 miles! . Jose Solis and Lori Nedescu both had big smiles putting in big miles and picked up lots of PRs on Tucson, AZ’s iconic climbs at US Military Endurance Sports' winter training camp! . The Otterhaus Thunder Bay crew of Jenny Bell and Rob Coffey along with some local friends celebrated a balmy -2 F day in Ontario by getting together for a trainer party. Great to see the smiles, spring is coming soon! . #coachinglife #raisethebar #progression

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Congrats to @rafaelamorganda (left) who took 8th on Stage 1 after a mechanical, and 6th on Stage 2 at the Ronda Pilipinas! Good luck to him as he tackles the legendary Capetown Cycle Tour in South Africa this weekend! □□ □ □

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Last day we are all together, great to finish up @m_mcycling for donuts and coffee after a spicy weekend San Pedro Surge ride. Awesome to see the cycling community thriving in our old stomping grounds! #cyclinglife #raisethebar #coachinglife #progression

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The gang in Tombstone. #cyclinglife #coachinglife #cyclingphotos

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Blue skies, great crew, looking forward to some fantastic riding in Cochise County over the next few days! #coachinglife #cyclinglife #raisethebar

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February Athlete Updates!

3/2/2017

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@jose.solis87 riding strong front and center at the Wolfpack Classic last week. Jose helped his Happy Tooth Racing teammate take the win in the P/1/2 field and took a strong 8th himself. Great season kick off! □: Jim Deese #raisethebar #progression #cyclingphotos

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Sure, just a winter training race, but still cool to make the break and podium with @tylerwal. I started riding with Tyler when he was a Cat 5, awesome to see him rolling up to the line and throwing down as a new Cat 2! Congrats to Eran Preble for playing the break smart and showing us how to sprint. Also great to see Cat 5 Bradley Sponaugle take a strong 4th in the B race! #progression #raisethebar #coachinglife #cyclinglife

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Athlete Highlights - December 2016

1/4/2017

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2017 season training is ramping up in earnest in a variety of ways! A few early winter ❄️ athlete updates: . @troy.rhandie looking sharp in the new kit, and reminding us all he lives in FL #noarmwarmersneeded . @jay.splus11 repping in Japan □□ (obviously the warmer part!) while mixing it up with a bit of off road on the road bike. Also, #noarmwarmersneeded . Awesome (but coooold) ride with @xcrunner611 @dcflaten @bikesunnybike and Adam Driscoll in WV and MD over the holidays! #notinflorida . @jose.solis87 dropped a 10 mile running PR in NC as the last act of a little break from cycling. He is now back on the bike fully recharged and motivated! . @cadencekitchen rocking the cross country skis □ in sunny MN taking a break from the trainer, also #notinflorida □ . @dcflaten spent some quality time in the gym in WI with Coach Craig Manthe getting a kick start for his season! . #coachinglife #cyclinglife

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Jan 17, 2017 at 12:26pm PST

Great ride with great friends this week, and luckily no kittens needed rescuing. Looking forward to new adventures and new directions in the coming year! #coachinglife #cyclinglife #raisethebar #progression

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Dec 24, 2016 at 2:34pm PST

Awesome stuff from Alex Driscoll and his teammates from @cosracing finishing up a 24 hr trainer relay in support of Kids On Bikes in Colorado this morning!

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Dec 11, 2016 at 9:20am PST

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Athlete Highlights - Aug

8/31/2016

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Some great results this weekend! David Flaten takes the win at the final stop of the 2016 Mid Atlantic Super Series in PA, his third MASS win in a row! Stefan Zavislan takes 2nd on Stage 1, 1st on Stage 2 and the overall General Classification at the Mt Whitney Stage Race in CA! Gotta love the ad hoc cooler 2nd step and podium dog! Great job guys! #coachinglife #cyclinglife #cycling #raisethebar #progression

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Aug 29, 2016 at 4:35am PDT

More great results from this weekend! David Flaten takes a hard fought win in the rain in PA at the Mid Atlantic Super Series French Creek XC. Jay ShalekBriski takes home the win, bragging rights and the coveted KOM Cape (yeah, that is an actual cape, brilliant!) at the Bandit Hill Climb in Spokane WA. All hail the king! #coachinglife #progression #raisethebar #cyclinglife #cyclingphotos

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Aug 24, 2016 at 5:32am PDT

Fun weekend for Otterhaus athletes and friends at the Appalachian Bicycle Racing Association​ App Visited RR and WV State RR champs. Ian Webster takes 3rd in the state champs in his first Cat 4/5 race, and the old coach took 5th in the Cat 1/2 field and won the WV State Championship. Also congrats to local Team Integrity Cycling​ rider Chris Burns​ on taking 2nd in the 4/5 field! Happy to support this great series, and great to have BIKE Doctor Racing Team​ teammates on hand and share #wildwonderfulWV with them! Photo Credit: Cassie Fetzer​ and Amy Haddix​ #cyclinglife #coachinglife #westvirginia #cycling #roadcycling #roadcycling

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Aug 23, 2016 at 6:32am PDT

Athlete Updates: Rob Coffey​ (somewhere in that fray of swimmers!) takes 3rd in his age group and sets a personal best for olympic distance at the Brewhouse Triathlon​! Great confidence builder as he finalizes his preps for IRONMAN Mont Tremblant​ this weekend! Photo credit: Steve Kuchera Stefan Zavislan​ continues his podium streak and takes 2nd overall at the Hotter 'N Hell Hill Climb up Mt Baldy in California! (no that is not a pic of Baldy, but yes its a picture of Stefan going uphill!) And after a long trip, Alex Driscoll​ finally made it to the desert for his deployment and has set himself up a nice training corner with eyes on winter cyclocross when he returns!

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Aug 17, 2016 at 2:10pm PDT

More great results from Tour de Millersburg this weekend. Tyler Waldron takes 5th in the TT and 3rd in the Crit in the Cat 3 race! Sadly a mechanical in the road race dashed his GC hopes, but as they say, that is bike racing. I have been training with Tyler locally since he was a Cat 5, awesome to see him continue to progress! □: Ruth Fedor Burns and Trish Newburg #cyclinglife #cyclingphotos #coaching #coachinglife #roadcycling #raisethebar #progression #racebold

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Aug 9, 2016 at 12:42pm PDT

Super proud of the US Military Endurance Sports elite cycling team's performance this weekend at one of its last events at the Tour de Millersburg in PA. We had a solid TT, followed by a bit of a rough criterium, which saw David Flaten crash pretty hard, but fortunately survive relatively unscathed. The team dusted off the disappointment, hit the reset button and rode fantastic in the road race on Sunday, with every team member riding aggressively and contributing in a positive manner. We were in almost every major break and contributed significantly to the chase on the one we missed. The result, putting Stefan Zavislan in the last lap winning move where he took 2nd on the day! Really cool to see the team's cohesion, fitness and race smarts progress over the season, and what a fantastic way to help close out 3 years of working with this program! One last stop for a smaller crew at the The Green Mountain Stage Race . #cyclingphotos #cycling #roadcycling #cyclinglife ‪#‎Progression‬ #raisethebar □: Igda Warner

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Aug 7, 2016 at 6:26pm PDT

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Athlete Updates - July

7/31/2016

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@xcrunner611 learning the ropes on the track quickly, taking 1st in the "B" points and scratch race, and having the fastest overall 1k time of the day @rockymountainstategames in CO! #trackcycling #trackcyclist #cycling #cyclingphotos

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Jul 28, 2016 at 4:42pm PDT

Congrats to @rafaelamorganda on taking 2nd at the Tanjay XC MTB Challenge in the Philippines this past weekend! #mtb #mtblife #coaching #coachinglife

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Jul 21, 2016 at 3:45am PDT

Huge congrats to David Flaten and Jay ShalekBriski! Dave took the win at the Mid Atlantic Super Series Granogue and Bach XC on his birthday this weekend! Jay took on the prestigious NUE Cascade 100 Endurance MTB Race in Bend OR, placing 5th overall even after a wrong turn that took him 7 miles out of his way. Awesome work guys! #mtb #raisethebar #progression #mountainbike

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Jul 17, 2016 at 11:37am PDT

Super proud of Jay Lowell's progression over the last few months. Jay and I connected in the spring when he was looking for some help coming back from an injury that kept him inactive for several weeks. His initial goal was to participate and "feel good" again in the @afa_cyclingclassic. With a full family and worklife we had to work together with his busy schedule to keep everything in balance. As we got into things, he started getting the bug to do a few more events, and soon there was a 2 man 6 hr MTB race on the to do list the week after AF Classic. After successful outings in both events, the motivation sored. Local mid week MTB races became regular and we are targetting a fall century at the @jbsgranfondo !

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Jul 14, 2016 at 4:15am PDT

Awesome 3 day block with Jose Solis on some of my favorite West Virginia routes. Heat, humidity, big miles and big climbs. Great to be able to host some strong motivated riders in the last couple weeks and help continue to raise their game! #progression #raisethebar #cycling #roadcycling #wildwonderfulwestvirginia

A photo posted by George Ganoung (@otterhauscoach) on Jul 8, 2016 at 5:58am PDT

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Mid April Athlete Highlights!

4/12/2016

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A few athlete highlights from the last couple of weeks:

Rhandie Thompson takes the win at the Florida State Age Graded time trial championships!

Kristy Pottol finished her first ever half marathon at the Northface Challenge in Washington DC. 3 months ago she could barely run a mile! Awesome stuff.

Alex Driscoll took 2nd at the San Dimas Stage Race Criterium which earned him his Category 1 upgrade!

Dino Ninassi and a bunch of his friends decided they would go for a little bike ride to get an espresso at the Yalaha Bakery​ in Florida...120 miles round trip! Epic day for him on the bike clocking in over 6 hrs!

Newly minted Category 2 riders Jose Solis and Rhandie Thompson raced the P/1/2 Brooksville Classic RR in Florida with Jose landing 5th and Rhandie sweeping for 10th!

Sunny Gill visited family and got some amazing riding in Nevada chasing mountain ghosts and racing storms as he ramps up for the road season.
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March Athlete Updates

3/30/2016

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Kristi Pottol set new "longest run" PRs every weekend during March topping out at a comfortable 10 miles as she preps for her first half marathon!  3 months ago she could barely run a mile, awesome progress!

Alex Driscoll was awarded the 2015 Army Athlete of the Year Award at a ceremony in Alabama this week.  The day after the ceremony he took 3rd at the Stage 1 Time Trial at the Tucson Bicycle Classic in Arizona and went on to take 6th on the General Classification.  The following weekend he took 7th in the Marana Criterium.

David Flaten continues extending his early season success and took 1st at the Rev3Adventure Spring Thaw MTB Race in VA, 9th at the Route 1 Rampage Crit in MD, and 3rd at the Morgantown Road Race in Mt Morris PA.

Rafael Amorganda placed 5th in the Stage 2 Road Race and 8th on the General Classification at the Tour Ni Frank in the Philippines!

Stefan Zavislan picked up 9th in the P/1/2 field at the Vlees Huis Ronde RR in CA; and 3rd on Stage 1, 1st on Stage 2 and 2nd on General Classification at the 9 mile Omnium in CA.

Rhandie Thompson picked up 9th in the P/1/2 field at the Chain of Lakes Cycling Classic in FL.

Jay ShalekBriski has been deployed in Qatar for the past several weeks but has been training hard in the desert in between flights.  Look forward to seeing him back in the states soon!
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Feb Athlete Updates

2/28/2016

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Rafael Amorganda took the win in the under 39 division at the Ronda Pilipinas 2016​ Criterium and 3rd in the Road Race!

David Flaten took wins at the Pantani XI 2016 ride and GroundforceIT​ Monster Cross in VA!

Alex Driscoll takes 8th in the TT and 8th in the road race in an all day break. He ended up 7th on GC in the Cat 2 Valley of the Sun Stage Race in AZ.

Stefan Zavislan took 23rd on GC in the Pro/1 race at the Valley of the Sun Stage Race.
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Jan Athlete Updates!

2/12/2016

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A few January highlights from Otterhaus athletes!

Alex Driscoll has been focused on improving his TT over the winter and tested himself by winning the Picacho Peak TT overall in AZ seeing big power improvements along the way.

Mid atlantic based cyclists David Flaten and Sunny Gill have been taking on the cold weather putting in big training blocks, including a lot of XC skiing and mountain biking in the snow, as they prepare for the upcoming season.

Rafael Amorganda picked up 2 top 10 finishes in his first category "A" race at the Pradera Stage Race in the Philippines.
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Stefan Zavislan has been putting in solid winter work and tested himself by winning the Tuttle Creek Road Race in California.
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