{"id":81044,"date":"2018-08-11T11:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=81044"},"modified":"2018-08-11T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:13:36","slug":"corporate-challenge-racing-action-takes-over-the-valley-preferred-cycling-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=81044","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Challenge racing action takes over the Valley Preferred Cycling Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?cat=2360\">Photos &amp; Story by Joe Scrizzi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.<br \/>\nFriends, Family and co-workers all came out to the VPCC to support the racers in lasts nights Corporate Challenge. The rain held off, which made for a fun and exciting evening, to say the least! Fans were in both grandstands and lined perimeter of the track as they rooted on the teams during each heat. All teams laid it on the line in Corporate America&#8217;s version of the Thunder Dome!<\/p>\n<div id=\"su_carousel_69f3c55399dfa\" class=\"su-carousel su-carousel-centered su-carousel-pages-yes su-carousel-responsive-yes su-lightbox-gallery\" style=\"width:100%\" data-autoplay=\"3000\" data-speed=\"600\" data-mousewheel=\"true\" data-items=\"2\" data-scroll=\"1\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slides\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Winners.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Winners-182x200.jpg\" alt=\"Winners\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-Infinera-e1534000147922.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-Infinera-e1534000147922.jpg\" alt=\"Team Infinera\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CPC3.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CPC3-182x200.jpg\" alt=\"CPC3\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CPC2.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CPC2-182x200.jpg\" alt=\"CPC2\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-nav\"><div class=\"su-carousel-direction\"><span class=\"su-carousel-prev\"><\/span><span class=\"su-carousel-next\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-pagination\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Team Infinera won the first round of the Corporate Challenge with a time of 2.39.03 minutes, skimming past Valley Preferred Team #1 with a time of 2.40.81. This earned them a bye. Infinera &amp; Valley Preferred Team 1 met once again for a final race. 1\/10th of a second separated these 2 teams&#8230;..WOW!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corporate Challenge Winners:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Valley Preferred Team 1 &#8211; Gold<\/p>\n<p>Infinera &#8211; Silver<\/p>\n<p>Air Products &#8211; Bronze<\/p>\n<p>The Corporate Challenge is a race run by the Valley Preferred Cycling Center (VPCC).\u00a0 The VPCC is a 333m concrete velodrome with 33\u00b0 banked turns located in Trexlertown, PA. \u00a0The format of the race is an \u201cItalian Pursuit\u201d.\u00a0 In the Italian Pursuit, (6) members of the team line up on one of the straits of the velodrome.\u00a0 At the start of the race all (6) members will start in unison.\u00a0 After the completion of one lap, rider #1 peels off the front of the pace line and departs the race. Rider #2 completes the second lap and then peels off the front of the pace line and departs the race\u2026 and so on, and so on.\u00a0 The goal is to complete (6) laps as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Companies competing in the Italian Pursuit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Air Products<\/p>\n<p>Coordinated Health<\/p>\n<p>Crayola<\/p>\n<p>Buckeye Partners, L.P.<\/p>\n<p>Valley Preferred Team 1<\/p>\n<p>Valley Preferred Team 2<\/p>\n<p>Infinera Corporation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other races that took place throughout the evening:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pro AM &amp; Stagiare<\/p>\n<p>Chariot Heats<\/p>\n<p>Scratch Races<\/p>\n<p>Golden Wheel<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the racers competing in last nights event!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevelodrome.com\/racing\/world-series-bicycling\/\">https:\/\/thevelodrome.com\/racing\/world-series-bicycling\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos &amp; Story by Joe Scrizzi https:\/\/www. Friends, Family and co-workers all came out to the VPCC to support the racers in lasts nights Corporate Challenge. The rain held off, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=81044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corporate Challenge racing action takes over the Valley Preferred Cycling Center<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,2360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-joe-scrizzi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/veledrome.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}