2014 Miesville Grinder WrapUp

[The 2015 edition of the Miesville gravel event is called the Miesville 56. New and improved promoters, minor tweaks to the route, it'll be great! - ed.]

The 2014 Miesville Grinder is done.  On what turned out to be a cool, dry and quite breezy day, we had about 70 riders actually start - which is not bad considering 100 was the cap.  I'm not sure how many

Ready to roll out

actually started - it could've been a few more.  We had a few 'possums', a few last minute arrivals, and a few who just didn't get over to register.  But I think most folks had a pretty good time.
The roads were in good shape, with some obvious work by Dakota County to grade and fill some of the worst spots (not on our behalf, but thanks anyway!).
The B road section was everything you'd hope.  A little gnarly, a little muddy, but generally not too bad. Nicky Terpstra (winner of today's Paris-Roubaix) would've felt right at home on it.
My heartfelt thanks to the riders who braved the elements and came out today.  I think King's Place was pretty happy as well. I counted at least 30 people at the tables, on what was probably an otherwise quiet Sunday afternoon.

Photos are now up.  If you have photos from today, please send me a link and I'll post those as well.

Results...   I billed this event as a no fees, no forms, no frills, but at the end of the day results are fun.  What I didn't have was a finish line crew to do 'real' results, but I hung around the finish for about 75 minutes after the podium places were decided.  Here are the RAW results.  There are some obvious errors and glaring omissions.  "Possum" is someone who didn't register for a free race.  If you have a correction, have a time, but don't know where you finished, want to record yourself as a DNF or any other issues with the results, please feel free to contact me (mnswamp@gmail.com).  I'll try to correct the record!

~mars

Place	Time		Name
1	3:13:27		tim norrie
2	3:13:27		Randall Dietel
3	3:13:27		nick c vetter
4	3:18:18		G$
5	3:29:57		Jay Henderson
6	3:29:57		Alex Oenes
7	3:29:57		Pete Schow
8	3:29:57		Jill Gaulding
9	3:31:53		Andrew folpe
10	3:31:53		Dan Gaz
11	3:33:19		Steven Yore
12	3:37:08		Johnny Woodside
13	3:37:28		devin palmer
14	3:39:41		Pete Morey
15	3:39:41		dave bucholz
16	3:40:52		Bill Stuber
17	4:00:36		Troy peterson
18	4:01:23		bob schwartz
19	4:02:47		Thomas Eibner
20	4:06:47		chris petersen
21	4:07:02		Stuart Raymond
22	4:07:09		Adam Turman
23	4:07:09		Ben McCoy
24	4:07:34		Rob Glieden
25	4:08:42		Mike Mason
26	4:08:50		jeff ingram
27	4:08:50		tess hohman
28	4:11:06		alex anderson
29	4:11:16		Paul
30	4:11:16		Rigel Menard
31	4:20:00		Joel Raygor
32	4:20:00		Tony Thomas
33	4:20:00		trenton raygor
34	4:32:55		Tim Peissig
35	4:32:55		John Powell
36	4:36:00		Sveta Kovalchuk
37	4:36:00		Julia Winkels
38	4:36:30		Shaun Flynn
39	6:00:00		Jack Rayburn (co-Lantern Rouge)
40	6:00:00		Tom Engstrom (co-Lantern Rouge)
1	2:37:28		Ross weinzierl (40K)

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