AVC Results and NCS Update

Although Alpenrose's Velodrome Challenge was shortened by rain, some great performances went down in the first two days of racing. A new 1km TT record went to Kevin Mansker, with a time of 1:07.79 with him also joining his Project London team-mates Michael Blatchford and Dean Tracy to break the Team Sprint track record. Full results are posted to the Alpenrose site here, and here are some great story and photo links:
http://oregon.cyclingaction.com/2011/more-records-fall-at-alpenrose/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brujo/sets/72157627090518973/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/661fixed/sets/72157627088355699/

On ATRA's National Championship Series front, Kevin Mansker scored himself 21 points to close the gap to Dan Harm in the overall standings and open the gap over team-mate Michael Blatchford in the Sprint standings. Harm did score 11 points to keep his lead in the overall standings and open up his lead over Zak Kovalcik in the Endurance standings. Cristin Walker was the big winner of the meet scoring 11 points to increase her lead in both the overall and the Sprint standings. The Women's Endurance standings are still tied at 28 points between Lauren Robertson and Val Brostrom. In the Teams standings, Mansker has led his Project London team to a massiv 150 points, more than doubling the points total of the second place team, Broadmark Capital p/b Gin Optics with Momentum Coaching p/b Atomic close in third.

Results are here: http://www.raceatra.com/NCS/2011ATRA_Results.htm

Next up on the calendar this weekend is the Marymoor Grand Prix presented by Nuun.