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AUGUST 29, 2010
Binghampton, NY – Hilton Clarke of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took 3rd in the bunch sprint at the end of the Chris Thater Memorial despite hitting the deck hard with seven laps to go.
“It was a little bit my own doing,” Clarke said. “I looked back to see where they guys were and someone in front of me swerved a bit and I went down.”
Read more and find out about Clarke's quick recovery and 3rd place podium win...
AUGUST 29, 2010
Vacaville, CA - The Northern CA/Nevada Sr. District Criterium Championship was this Sunday in Vacaville. This race is also part of the California Cup series. Katheryn wanted to try to check "District Crit Champ" off her list before retiring, and I wanted a taste of race intensity before the Cyclocross season starts in a few weeks, so off we went. We were successful on both counts! Read Katheryn's Race Report...
AUGUST 28, 2010
Binghampton, NY – Team TIBCO/To the Top finished out the 2010 season with a show of force, as Samantha Schneider won a two-up sprint over Cath Cheatley (Colavita-Baci) to earn the win at the Chris Thater Memorial, her first career NRC victory. Joanne Kiesanowski won the bunch sprint for 3rd after Team TIBCO took over the front of the race on the final lap. Brooke Miller finished 5th.
“The team raced really well today,” said directeur sportif...Read More...
AUGUST 22, 2010
Santa Cruz, CA - The annual road series here in NorCal, the CalCup is taking place for 3 weeks in late August/early Sept. This 7 race series is usually the final races of the season for a lot of riders, and while you won't get rich winning it, the bragging rights and coveted Velo Promo t-shirts always draw out good fields! Katheryn has been doing a lot of the races with the men's P/1/2 fields, but Lindsay represented Webcor...Read More...
AUGUST 22, 2010
Santa Cruz, CA – Devon Haskell and Megan Guarnier of Team TIBCO/To the Top took 2nd and 3rd respectively today in the University Road Race in Santa Cruz. The 13-lap race on a challenging three-mile course that sent the field uphill for 1.5 miles and back down for the other 1.5 miles, served to help create the winning move.
On lap three, Shelly Evans (Peanut Butter & Co.) put in an attack on the climb that Guarnier covered. When that move came...Read More...
AUGUST 22, 2010
Roman KilunSan Jose, CA – Roman Kilun of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis has returned strong from a hip fracture sustained at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic in June, winning a pair of California state track titles this weekend.
“I’ve been back racing on and off the past month,” he said, “but only started to feel good the past week.”
He displayed those good sensations at the Hellyer Velodrome in San Jose, winning...Read More...
AUGUST 21, 2010
While it is mostly just criteriums left in the US in August, the road season is still in full swing across the pond. Erinne and Joelle are based in Belgium for a month of racing with the Canadian National Team. Dave, our Webcor mechanic, is there with the Canadian team as well. Erinne continues the good form she showed in Cascade with her first top 10 placing in a European World Cup race. Read More...Erinne's Race Report to follow...
AUGUST 20, 2010
Oakland, CA – Eric Barlevav, Jonny Clarke and Matt Crane of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis will join participants in the Ride 2 Recovery Great Lakes Challenge, which is sponsored by UnitedHealthcare, this Monday, August 23.
The seven-day Ride2Recovery, which covers 430 miles, works to improve the health and wellness of injured veterans through cycling. The Challenge supports...Read More about this Ride2Recovery Event...
AUGUST 18, 2010
Salt Lake City, UT – The first road stage of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah was one that UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis Directeur Sportif Gord Fraser called “underrated.”
“It has two good climbs, and with the heat today, it proved to be a hard one,” he said.
In the end, a comfortable looking Rory Sutherland of UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis took 6th on the stage to maintain his 4th overall...Read More...
AUGUST 17, 2010
Rory SutherlandSalt Lake City, UT – The opening prologue of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah finished rather similarly to the opening prologue of the Cascade Classic four weeks ago, with a pair of Trek-Livestrong riders occupying the top two positions. Instead of slotting in at 3rd as he did last month, Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took a close 4th behind a trio of time trial specialists. Read More...
AUGUST 16, 2010
Oakland, CA – The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis has registered to move up to Professional Continental status for the 2011 season.
“We’ve begun the application process, and we don’t anticipate any problems in getting approved,” said Thierry Attias, President of Momentum Sports Group, which operates UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis. “Our intent is to be...Read More and find out the confirmed riders for UnitedHealthcare 2011...
AUGUST 15, 2010
Glencoe, IL – The new course for the U.S. Pro Criterium Championship – run for the first time in Glencoe, Illinois after 24 years at Downers Grove – proved to be unpredictable and decisive for the race.
Matt Crane
The climbing and technical nature of the course created a constant reshuffling of attacking groups until a group of 12 riders, including Matt Crane of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis, got off the front...Read More...
AUGUST 8, 2010
Charlotte, NC – Jake Keough of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis came through a chaotic sprint finish to take 2nd behind Jonthan Cantwell (V Australia) at the Presbyterian Hospital Invitational in Charlotte, N.C. last night.
Jake KeoughKeough was part of a move that formed after one last reshuffling of a break that had been up the road for much of the night, but was in near constant flux. Read More...
On Wednesday, a day before his 33rd birthday, Johnson won the Fidelity Investments Gran Prix of Beverly presented by Beverly Hospital, not only his home-town race, but the race he helped get started last year.
“It’s my first road win in quite some time,” Johnson said. “It was awesome to finally get a win, but to do it in my hometown in front of a lot of family and friends makes it so much better. Read More...
What if Phil and Paul commentated on our daily lives?
“She’s wearing the mask of pain!” “Shut your eyes, shut your mind to the pain!”
I am back in my embrace-adversity, pick-myself-up, and get-after-it mode. During 9th of the 10 stages of the Giro d’Italia Feminine, where I was supporting the USA National team in its epic attempt to win with Mara (Abbott), I found myself in the wrong place at the wrong time … again. OH. Could it really be? No. Yes. Really? Read More...
JULY 25, 2010
Bend, OR - For the 2nd consecutive month, Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team has won the overall title of a major U.S. stage race. Last month, Sutherland won the Nature Valley Grand Prix in dramatic fashion, with his teammates launching him to a final-stage, final-lap attack that earned the win. This week, Sutherland took the lead of the Cascade Classic on the 2nd day of the 6-day race, and again benefited from tremendous teamwork... Read More...
JULY 23-25, 2010
Bend, OR - The Cascade Lakes RR is one of the classic stages of Cascade, with the finish up to Mt. Bachelor Ski resort. It was another stage for the climbers and Erinne proved again that she is one of the top climbers of the North American peloton with a strong 3rd place finish. She also extended her 3rd place GC lead by another 30 sec. over 4th place Alison Powers. Read More...Stage 4 & 5 Race Reports included...
JULY 23, 2010
Bend, OR – The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis is demonstrating yet again at the Cascade Classic that it takes a team to maintain an individual race lead. With race leader Rory Sutherland and 4th overall Marc de Maar the protected riders, it fell to their six teammates to ensure that the high-flying duo stayed fresh and out of trouble en route to the final four-mile climb of the 84-mile third stage. Read More...
JULY 22, 2010
Stage 2 of the Cascade Classic is a 16 mile TT. The course is the same as the one for US nationals without the extra "lollipop" loop at the end. It is similar to the TT at Tour of the Gila - gradual uphill all the way out and fast downhill on the way back. Erinne had a breakthrough TT at Gila, placing 2nd there, so she and the team were hoping for another good ride here and she did not disappoint us! Read More about Erinne's TT win...
JULY 22, 2010
Bend, OR – Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis put it another strong time trial in Stage 2 of the Cascade Classic, placing 3rd behind a pair of TT specialists; Ben Day (V Australia) and prologue winner Jesse Sergent (Trek-Livestrong).
“I felt pretty good the first couple days, and I know when I’m feeling good I can...Read More and find out where Sutherland and DeMaar stand going into the next TT stage; 84-miles...
JULY 21, 2010
Bend, OR – Marc de Maar and Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis are turning into a pretty effective two-pronged attack.
In the opening road stage of the Cascade classic, the two former Rabobank teammates attacked out of a splintering peloton with a few kilometers left on the climb to the finish at Three Creeks Snow Park, with only Fly V Australia’s Darren Lill able to follow. In the end, de Maar’s final...Read More...
JULY 20, 2010
Bend, OR – Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis placed 3rd behind the Trek-Livestrong duo of Jesse Sergent and Alex Dowsett in the opening prologue of the Cascade Classic.
Sutherland finished within a second of the top spot. But, because of the short nature of the course – covering just two miles – the time gaps all around were...Read More...
JULY 20, 2010
Bend, OR – Team TIBCO/To the Top opened the Cascade Classic with a strong demonstration of the team’s depth. Alison Starnes was the highest placed of four team riders in the top 10 of the opening prologue, taking 3rd place, while Joanne Kiesanowski and Meredith Miller occupied the 5th and 6th positions. Megan Guarnier rounded out the Team TIBCO charge with 9th. Amanda Miller and Brooke Miller both narrowly missed the top 10...Read More...
JULY 19, 2010
Oakland, CA – Summer break is over for the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis stage race squad, though, as Rory Sutherland noted, “it’s not like we stopped working the last four weeks. We just weren’t racing.”
Sutherland and the stage race squad got a hard-earned and much needed break following the Nature Valley Grand Prix as well as le Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce in Quebec, which ran concurrently in June. Read More...
JULY 12, 2010 - Grand Rapids, MI - Hilton Clarke of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took 3rd place in the Grand Cycling Classic on Saturday, taking 2nd in a bunch sprint that just about caught race winner Patrick Bevin (Bissell) on the line.
“We were really close to catching him,” said Karl Menzies of UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis. “I think he won by no more than a bike length.” Read More...
JULY 10, 2010 - Grand Rapids, MI - Cheatley Holds Off Van Gilder for Second!
By: Kirsten Frattini
Joanne Kiesanowski (Tibco-To the Top) won a two-woman sprint against her late-race breakaway companion and NRC leader Cath Cheatley (Colavita-Baci) to capture a victory at the Grand Cycling Classic held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Laura van Gilder (Mellow Mushroom) won the bunch sprint for third place.
“This was my first NRC race win this year,” Kiesanowski said. Read More...
JULY 2, 2010 - Amber Neben went straight from Bend, OR to Italy for the Giro d'Italia Feminile to race with the US National team.
Here is her report for the first stage:
Muggia-Trieste - July 2, 2010 - The American team for the Giro is Mara, Shelley, and Sinead from PB2012. Carmen and Theresa from Colavita. Alison and Amanda from TIBCO, and me (Webcor!) Read More...
JULY 2, 2010 - While the rest of the team is recovering from a month long racing road trip, Ally, now based on the east coast, is racing the Fitchburg-Longso Classic in MA.
Ally, one of the teams' developing riders, finished off the Fitchburg-Longso classic in good form. Being based on the east coast, she took advantage of the nearby race to gain valuable experience and fitness for Cascade in 2 weeks. Read More...
JUNE 28, 2010 - The Candian contingent of the Webcor team, Erinne and Joelle, raced their national championship road race yesterday. It was a great day for the team - for the 3rd time, Erinne helped a Webcor teammate win the coveted Maple Leaf jersey!
Here is Erinne's Report:
This year the Canadian National Championships were held in Edmonton, Alberta which is a town up north and along a river valley. Therefore the course which we did... Read More of Erinne's Report...
JUNE 27, 2010 - Sunday was a busy day with Webcor riders competing in their national championships in 3 different countries! Andrea had the longest trip - all the way to Austria. It was a worthwhile one though as she came through with the big victory!
Here is her report:
Austrian Road Championships - Victory!!!
...about 2 "cancelled" nights, Austrian race organization, a clear lead and a narrow victory...Read More...
JUNE 27, 2010 - Marc de MaarCuracao, Netherlands Antilles – Newly-minted Netherlands Antilles citizen Marc de Maar of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis is now the newly minted road and time trial national champion of the island nation in the southern Caribbean Sea. Read More about deMaar's TT and Road Championship First Place Wins...
UnitedHealthcare followed up yesterday’s win at the Downer Classic in Milwaukee by delivering Karl Menzies to the win this evening at the Carl Zach Cycling Classic in Waukesha, the final stage of the Tour of America’s Dairyland. Menzies was part of a break that got off the front shortly after the start of the race. When Clarke bridged up to the group with Tour leader James Stemper (Kenda), it secured the success of the break. Read More...
JUNE 26, 2010 - Milwaukee, WI – The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis train was only four-deep at the Downer Classic in Milwaukee Saturday evening, but the outcome was the same as it was 10 days ago in the second stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix: Hilton Clarke and Karl Menzies took the top two spots. Read More and find out how Clark and Menzies claimed their spots on the podium...
JUNE 25, 2010 - Bend, OR - The American contingent of the Webcor Cycling team is here in beautiful Bend, OR for the national championships. Yesterday was the time trial. Amber showed she is well on her way back to peak form after her injury by placing a strong 2nd place behind Evelyn Stevens of Columbia HTC. Mara Abbott was 3rd. Read Amber's Race Report...
JUNE 21, 2010 - Nevada City, CA – Megan Guarnier of Team TIBCO/To the Top took 2nd place at the Nevada City Classic, a day after she wrapped up the overall omnium title of the Tour de Nez after taking 2nd in the third stage at Northstar at Tahoe.
In Nevada City, Guarnier noted, “the course kind of takes care of itself. There’s normally no need to attack to thin the field.” Read More...
JUNE 20, 2010 - In the final stage of the Grand Cycliste de Beauce, UnitedHealthcare threw everything they had at the Fly V Australia team of race leader Ben Day in an effort to dislodge him & move Marc de Maar & Morgan Schmitt up in the overall standings.
When a dangerous 9-rider break including SpiderTech’s Ryan Roth, the best placed rider on GC, it posed two choices for the Team.
“We could share the work with Fly V to ensure Roth didn’t leap-frog or... Read More...
JUNE 20, 2010 - Stillwater, MN–Team TIBCO/To the Top won the overall team competition after a hard Stillwater Criterium, the final stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix.
“It was a gallant effort by all the girls,” said team directeur sportif Emma Rickards. The goal coming into the stage was to throw everything at race leader Linda Villumson (HTC-Columbia)–and everyone else in contention – in an effort to move Ruth Corset up from 3rd overall. Read More about Team TIBCO's win...
JUNE 20, 2010-PodiumStillwater, MN–Stop us if you’ve heard this story before: Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis comes into the final stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix in 2nd overall, a handful of seconds down on the leader. He attacks going into the final lap, gets a gap, holds it & takes the overall title. Read More on teamwork that went into Sutherland's overall win at Nature Valley & De Marr & Schmitt finish Beauce 3rd & 4th...
JUNE 18, 2010 - Clarke wins in Minneapolis - Minneapolis, MN – Hilton Clarke of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis won the bunch sprint of the Uptown Minneapolis Criterium Friday evening. It was his second consecutive stage win at the Nature Valley Grand Prix, which saw yesterday’s third stage canceled due to tornado warnings. Read More on UnitedHeathcare's fight to stay in the running for the overall win...
JUNE 19, 2010 - Menomonie, WI – With the cancellation of the Stage 3 Cannon Falls Road Race on Thursday, the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis looked to today’s only true road stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix, the 95-mile Menomonie Road Race, to move Rory Sutherland closer to the race lead and his third consecutive overall victory at the NVGP. “We were in a position to win the stage with our sprinters, but we sold out for Rory to move him up... Read More...
JUNE 19, 2010 - Quebec City, Que – Marc de Maar of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis proved again today that he is one of the strongest riders contesting this Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce by taking a convincing victory in the 5th stage of the race, a 139 km circuit race in Quebec City that served as a dress rehearsal for the Grande Prix Cycliste de Quebec Pro Tour race in September. Read More...
JUNE 19, 2010 - Menomonie, WI – Brooke Miller of Team TIBCO/To the Top took 1st in the bunch sprint to earn 3rd place on the fifth stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix Saturday. Erinne Willock (Webcor Builders) and Linda Villumsen (HTC-Columbia) had escaped the front group late in the hilly, 77-mile race to contest the stage honors. Willock took the win, but Villumsen got the bigger prize, taking the overall lead from Shelly Evans (Peanut Butter & Co.)...Read More...
JUNE 18, 2010 - Minneapolis, MN – Brooke Miller of Team TIBCO/To the Top took second in the bunch sprint at the Uptown Minneapolis Criterium Friday evening following more exceelent work by her teammates.
“The team rode superbly again today,” said team Directeur Sportif Emma Rickards. “IT was a fast race and the team did a really good lead-out for Brooke.” Read More...
JUNE 17, 2010 - Marc de MaarMont Megantic, Que – Marc de Maar of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis said his legs hadn’t felt too good the first couple days of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce. Apparently, they got better in a hurry, as the Dutch rider won today's stage atop Mont Megantic solo and took over the race lead. Read More...
JUNE 16, 2010 - Andrew PinfoldThetford Mines, Que – Andrew Pinfold of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took 3rd in the second stage of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce, moving him up to 3rd overall and giving him the white jersey of the leader of the points competition.
“This was probably the only true sprinter’s stage of the race,” said Team Directeur Sportif Gord Fraser. “We wanted to give Pinner a good shot at the stage win.” Read More...
JUNE 16, 2010 - Rory SutherlandSt. Paul, MN – Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis finished 2nd in the opening 6.1 km time trial of the Nature Valley Grand Prix this morning. Sutherland comes into the race as the two-time defending champion, and he now sits 0:10 behind stage winner Scott Swizanski (Kelly Benefits) in 2nd place after posting a time of 13:04, and 0:06 ahead of Swizanski’s teammate Zach Bell in 3rd. Read More...
JUNE 16, 2010 - Paul, St. Paul, MN – Hilton Clarke and Karl Menzies of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took the top two spots in the Downtown St. Paul Criterium Wednesday evening, the second stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix.
In front of numerous guests from title sponsor UnitedHealthcare, as they did at both races in the Air Force Cycling Classic last week, UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis took complete control of the race...Read More...
JUNE 16, 2010 - St. Paul, MN – Alison Starnes of Team TIBCO/To the Top showed that her form is on the ascent ahead of the U.S. National Championships next week by taking her first ever NRC win in the opening time trial of the Nature Valley Grand Prix this morning.
Starnes powered over the 6.1 km course, the last 800 meters of which climbs Ohio Street, in 14:38, 0:04 and 0:07 ahead of HTC-Columbia teammates Linda Villumson and Evelyn Stevens, respectively. Read More...
JUNE 15, 2010 - Andrew PinfoldBellechasse, Que – Andrew Pinfold of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took 4th in the opening stage of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce at the end of an aggressive and hectic 165 kms.
As Team Directeur Sportif Gord Fraser noted, Beauce is known for its numerous climbs and notoriously bad road surfaces, and the first stage offered up plenty of both. Read More...
JUNE 13, 2010 - The Air Force Cycling Classic weekend wouldn’t have ended any better for the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis. Really. The Team swept the podium of the Crystal City Cup today, as Jake Keough led the charge to the line just ahead of teammates Karl Menzies and Hilton Clarke. The win completed the sweep begun yesterday with Clarke’s win of the Clarendon Cup. Read More...
JUNE 13, 2010 - Joelle Numainville (Webcor Builders) won the first edition of the Grand Prix Gatineau on Sunday in a crash-filled sprint. Numainville avoided the crash in the final 500 metres and held off late efforts by Jo Kiesanowski (TIBCO) and Modesta Vzesniauskaite (Colavita Baci) to win the UCI 1.1 race in her home province.
"Riders were going down beside me and behind me, but I was okay," explained Numainville. "It was a lot harder out there than we thought...Read More...
JUNE 12, 2010 - Talk about a good first impression. In his first race with the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis, Hilton Clarke paid back his new teammates for their hard work by winning the Air Force Cycling Classic Clarendon Cup Saturday.
Clarke and teammate Brad White were part of a six-rider break that took leave of the front of the peloton 40 laps into the 100-lap, 100 km criterium in the Clarendon section of Arlington, Virginia. Read More...
JUNE 12, 2010 - Brooke Miller of Team TIBCO/To the Top took a strong sprint victory at the Clarendon Cup Saturday. Miller out-sprinted veteran Laura Van Gilder (Mellow Mushroom) & Erica Allar (Team Vera Bradley) for the win at the end of the 50-lap, 50 km race.
But Miller said, “today was the Emma Mackie show. Emma raced phenomenally. We came into today trying to be patient & not attack a lot, but cover moves. Emma must have covered at least half the moves...Read More...
JUNE 11, 2010 - Sprinter Hilton Clarke will make his debut for the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis at the Air Force Cycling Classic this weekend. Clarke joins the Team from the Bahati Foundation squad.
“Hilton is one of the top sprinters racing in North America,” said Team Director Mike Tamayo. “When the opportunity arose to add him to the squad, it was an easy decision. He is a Pro Tour-level talent, and he adds even greater depth to our...Read More...
JUNE 7, 2010 - The Liberty Classic is the biggest 1-day race for women in the US... Webcor had a smaller, but nonetheless strong team of 5 riders. Joelle finished a strong 6th place out of a select group of 22 riders at the finish containing some of the world's best sprinters... The rest of the ream rode aggressively & Erinne made the only real break of the day, being off the front by up to about 1 minute for most of the 3rd lap. Read More...
JUNE 6, 2010 - Hood River, OR – Marc de Maar and the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis did what they needed to do today to close out the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic with the yellow jersey still adorning the Dutchman.
The technical 1 km criterium course, which featured a pair of hard turns at the base of descents was made more dangerous by steady rain. Read More about Marc de Maar's and UnitedHeathcare's overall win...
JUNE 6, 2010 - Tulsa, OK – Amanda Miller of Team TIBCO/To the Top has been putting the fine form she gained racing the Tour de l’Aude last month to good use since her return. Last weekend, she rode away from the pack on lap one of the challenging Snake Alley Criterium for the solo win. This weekend, she headed to Tulsa with five teammates to tackle the three-day Tulsa Tough. Read More...
JUNE 6, 2010-Philadelphia, PA–The six rider squad from Team TIBCO/To the Top rode aggressively from the start of the 93 km Liberty Classic, with Australian National Champion Ruth Corset one of the early agitators. Corset attacked on the first lap and began securing Queen of the Mountain points the first time up the Manayunk Wall and Lemon Hill, en route to securing the QoM competition. In fact, Corset took top points on seven of the eight QoM hot spots out on course. Read More...
JUNE 2, 2010 - Oakland, CA – Brad White and Matt Crane of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis will join participants in the Ride2Recovery Memorial Challenge, which is sponsored by UnitedHealthcare, this Friday, June 4.
The seven-day Ride2Recovery, which began on Memorial Day in Washington, D.C. and ends Sunday, June 6, in Virginia Beach, works to improve the health and wellness of injured veterans through cycling. Read More about Ride2Recovery...
Team TIBCO riders took advantage of the 3-day weekend to take on races across the country, netting three wins & three additional podium spots in the process. Amanda Miller got things rolling Saturday with the difficult Snake Alley Criterium... Megan Guranier won the imposing Mt. Hamilton Road Race on Sunday, winning a two-up sprint ahead of Kathryn Donovan (Now-MS). Teammate Alison Starnes finished 3rd ahead of Shelly Evans (Peanut Butter & Co.). Read More...
May 31, 2010 - This weekend was the Robert Cameron Law Corporation Cycling Series. It consisted of three great races put on by local sponsors & the field was the best cyclists of BC... Friday night was the Trek Pro City Bear Mountain Hill Climb where we raced the clock up a grueling 3.3km & 10% hill. I think I set the women’s record with a time of 8:33 which would have placed me 8th in the men’s field behind local pros like Ryder Hesjedal and Rob Britton. Read More...
The UHC Pro Cycling Team fought until the final finish line of the Amgen Tour of California to preserve Rory Sutherland’s high placing in the overall classification. In the end, Sutherland finished 7th overall, the top domestic based rider in the race, with teammate Marc de Maar finishing 13th overall. UnitedHealthcare also finished as the top domestic team in the race, with 4th place in the overall team competition, behind Garmin, Radioshack and HTC-Columbia. Read More...
In the heart of Los Angeles, Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis rode with the heart of a lion in the Stage 7 individual time trial, posting the 9th fastest time on the day, but more importantly, holding on to his 5th overall position in the general classification of the Amgen Tour of California. Read More...
After 135 miles and nearly 14,000 feet of climbing, Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis sprinted to 2nd place in what was the hardest ever stage in the history of the Amgen Tour of California.
Sutherland took advantage of an attack by teammate Marc de Maar with 25 km to go in the stage to conserve energy for the sprint, which was won by Peter Sagan (Liquigas), who took his second consecutive stage win. Read More...
After Joe Martin, Katheryn headed straight to France to race the 10 day Tour de l'Aude with the US National team. This is probably the most prestigious international stage race for women - it is a women-only race that has been going on for something like 20 years & has the highest UCI ranking for a women's stage race. Basically the equivalent of the Tour de France for women. Katheryn took her first European stage win here yesterday and rocketed from 14th to 2nd on GC! Read More...
Submitted By: Karen Brems, WEBCOR Team Director on May 18, 2010
May 16, 2010-Sacramento, CA The men get a whole stage race for the Tour of California while the women unfortunately only got to race a 1-day criterium in downtown Sacramento, but at least we got something and the organizers (not the same organization that puts on the men's stage race) did a good job putting on a first year event. Read More Including Andrea's Report...
May 20, 2010 Bakersfield, CA – The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis put Rory Sutherland, Marc de Maar, Chris Baldwin and Matt Crane in the front group after the peloton split apart on the first KoM of the day going up Old Stage Road. “That was a pretty cheeky move on Radio Shack’s part to hit it on the climb,” Baldwin said. The tactic severed the peloton into several groups, with Baldwin, Sutherland & de Maar in the front group, & Crane in a chase...Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis rode through a deceptively difficult 4th stage of the Amgen Tour of CA Wednesday, but came through in good shape for the key upcoming key stages.
“Today was hard,” Rory Sutherland said of the transitional stage which included the first category 1 climb of the race. “Sierra Road actually wasn’t that bad. Garmin let the break go early and we just rode tempo up the climb. But we rode hard to bring them back.” Read More...
Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis put in his second consecutive strong ride in the 3rd stage of the Amgen Tour of California.
Sutherland took 5th place on the stage from an elite chase group that finished just 0:17 behind the lead trio of stage winner Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions), Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) and Levi Leipheimer (Radio Shack). Read More...
Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare team narrowly missed out on the podium in the 2nd stage of the Amgen Tour of CA. Sutherland was one of four UnitedHealthcare riders who made a select front group over the final climb of the day, the steep & treacherous Trinity Grade 20 mi. from the stage finish. Sutherland was joined by Marc de Maar & Max Jenkins over the climb, while the lead group caught Karl Menzies, one of two survivors of the day’s main break on the descent. Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis rode a strong first stage of the Amgen Tour of California, covering 104 miles from Nevada City to Sacramento. Marc de Maar of UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis covered an early move by former Rabobank teammate Maarten Tjallingii that turned into the main break of the day, a four-rider move that saw them out front for the better part of 100 km, and not getting caught by the peloton until 15 km to go. Read More...
Two-time NRC points champion Rory Sutherland will lead the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team into the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, beginning May 16th in Nevada City. “This year we’re bringing a squad to the Amgen Tour of California that will be well balanced with climbers, sprinters and guys who can win out of breaks,” said team directeur sportif Mike Tamayo. “The previous two years, Rory has been close to stage wins. That’s definitely a goal this year.” Read More...
This was one close race! Katheryn went into the final stage 4.3 sec. behind Alison Powers. With time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds for the top 3 places in the stage, she had to either take time out of Alison or be 1st or 2nd on the stage without Alison being in the top 3. The Webcor team gave their all and Katheryn found her sprinting legs to take 2nd on the stage (winning the field sprint) but unfortunately for us, Alison took 3rd, giving her the win by 0.3 sec! Read More...
May 6, 2010 - Fayetteville, AR - The Webcor team came back down to sea level and a little less wind in Fayetteville, AR for the Joe Martin stage race. The team took our first NRC victory of the season with Katheryn winning the opening hillclimb TT. This was a long time coming as Katheryn placed 2nd to Alex Wrubleski (then riding for Colavita) by 1 sec. in 2007 and 2nd to Alison Powers by 2 sec. in 2009 on this same stage. Read More...
A crash-marred final stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race saw a minor re-shuffling of the general classification for Team TIBCO/To the Top. Alison Starnes, 3rd overall coming into the final day, got caught up behind a crash & burned a few too many matches chasing & despite regaining the front group, lost contact toward the end of the race on the hard, hilly course. However, Amanda Miller took 5th on the stage and jumped up from 6th to the final overall spot in 3rd place. Read More...
May 08, 2010 - St. Salvy, France – Two-thirds of Team TIBCO’s Tour de l’Aude squad took the start of the St. Salvy de la Balme race in France today. They also took the finish, as Ruth Corset and Brooke Miller slipped away from the field early and help on for 1st and 2nd respectively, while Emma Mackie also got away late to take 3rd place. Joanne Kiesanowski won the bunch sprint for 4th place. Read More...
Matt Crane attacked late out of a nearly race-long break & almost held on to take the victory in the final stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race. Fortunately, it was his teammate Karl Menzies who just nipped him at the line. Crane joined a two-rider move on the 3rd lap of the 90-min race, which increased to four a few laps later when Caleb Fairly (Felt-Holoweski) bridged up. The four riders, including Aaron Kemps (Fly V) & Ken Hanson (Team Type 1), worked well together... Read More...
Team TIBCO/To the Top was a constant presence at the front of the GP Stad Roeselare (UCI 1.1) last Sunday, figuring in the main break of the day, and mixing it up in the sprint finish. Joanne Kiesanowski was the team’s top finisher in 7th place, but her placing didn’t reflect the influence the team had on the race. “The girls are racing great,” team directeur sportif Chris Georgas stated simply. Team TIBCO continued its aggressive tactics, putting its stamp on the race. Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis started May in the Southeast exactly how they ended April. But instead of Jake Keough taking the top step of the podium as he did yesterday, it was Karl Menzies getting the win at the Dilworth Criterium in Charlotte, his second of the USA Crits Speed Week, after he opened the series with the win in Athens a week ago. Keough did however hold on for 5th place today. Read More...
UHC had been knocking on the door all week at the USA Crits Speed Week after Karl Menzies opened the series with a win in Athens last Saturday. The team followed that with Andrew Pinfold’s 2nd place in Roswell Sunday, then Pinfold’s 3rd place at the Beaufort Memorial Criterium Tuesday, & Menzies 2nd at Walterboro Wednesday. Always close to the podium was Jake Keough, & today the young sprinter finally broke through, taking the win in Spartanburg, with Pinfold posting 3rd. Read More...
Max Jenkins of the UnitedHealthcare Pro cycling Team Presented by Maxxis closed out a hard week of racing with a strong 3rd place on final stage of the SRAM Tour of the Gila, the infamous Gila Monster stage. Jenkins and teammate Morgan Schmitt were part of a roughly 20-rider break that formed off the front after the second bonus sprint about 38 miles into the 106-mile stage. Read More...
The UHC squad put in a solid start Wednesday, with Chris Baldwin taking 9th on the opening-stage Mogollon Road Race, 0:47 behind stage winner Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny’s)... The 2nd stage served up 80 miles of rolling terrain & winds... Just inside 1 km to go, Leipheimer put in an attack to foil the sprinters. Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) covered the move & got over the top of Leipheimer for the win. Sutherland sprinted to 4th, just behind Kyle Wamsley (Bissell). Read More...
The Webcor team is in Silver City, NM for the 5 day Tour of the Gila. This is a tough race - probably the most climbing of any US stage race and also takes place above 6000 ft. elevation, which is hard for those coming from sea level. The team is Katheryn, Erinne, Andrea, Joelle and our 2 guest riders: Amy Dombroski who raced with Webcor in 2008-2009 and Angela McClure of the Webcor/Alto Velo Bridge team. Read More...
The RoadRunner Classic is a new race on the calander this year in Albuquerque, NM... Webcor sent a small, but strong team of Katheryn, Andrea and Erinne to support the race and also gain some time at altitude before Gila. The race is a omnium format, which means there are points awarded for finish order in each stage and the greatest points total wins, instead of the usual stage race format determined by time. Read More...
Roswell, GA – The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis got off to a fast start in the opening weekend of the Southeast Criterium Series speed week. On Saturday, Karl Menzies of the UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis took the victory at the Terrapin Athens Twilight Criterium, besting five breakmates in a sprint finish. Read More ...
Brooke Miller of Team TIBCO/To the Top continued her strong riding on the European tour, taking advantage of exceptional teamwork to finish 4th in the bunch sprint at the end of the 141km Ronde van Gelderland in Holland Saturday. Miller’s teammate Emma Mackie also posted a fine 10th place. “We wanted to be aggressive and involved in the race and not just reacting to everyone else,” Miller said. Read More...
It’s not often that you hear Miller and criterium in the same sentence without it involving Brooke. But with Brooke off racing the classics with Team TIBCO/To the Top’s European squad, it was left to Amanda and Meredith to take care of business in the opening day criterium at the Sea Otter Classic powered by SRAM. Which they did quite well, taking the top two spots on the podium. Read More...
The Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) launched a new anti-doping program called "Race Clean OWN YOUR VICTORY" earlier this week. The program is athlete-driven & complements the "Roulez Gagnants au Naturel" program... "I choose to 'Race Clean' because I believe sport is the opportunity to challenge our bodies & perform at our full capacity through the aid of training, determination, discipline and passion," said Erinne Willock (Webcor Builders Women’s Pro Cycling). Read More...
Andrew Pinfold of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis finished 8th in the Dana Point Grad Prix, which, combined with his 2nd place in the time trial Saturday, earned him enough points to win the Mayor’s Cup omnium.
UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis had aims on the podium in the sprint, but their train literally got derailed by a late-race crash.
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Brad White of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis led a sweep of the top four spots in the Killer Cove Time Trial today, marking a strong opening day to the Dana Point race weekend. White was the only rider in the field to break the five-minute barrier on the 2.25-mile course, which featured more descending than climbing, but still served up a quarter-mile long climb at gradients north of 15% just after the mid-point. Read More...
Ninove, BEL – Team TIBCO/To the Top made a solid start to its spring European campaign under extremely difficult conditions at the Tour of Flanders Sunday. Brooke Miller survived the wind, occasional rain and hazardous riding conditions created by slick cobbles and a nervous peloton to take 13th place in the race known to race fans simply as The Ronde.
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Boulder, CO – Brad White of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis continued his run of good form, taking 3rd in the Koppenberg Road Race near Boulder, CO Saturday. Read More ...
Roman Kilun of UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis ventured to the Central Valley of CA to take on the 2-day, 3-stage Topsport Stage Race this weekend & came away with two stage wins & the overall title against a strong NorCal elite field. The race opened with a double day Saturday, starting with a 90-min. circuit race in the early part of the morning. Kilun rode conservatively to save energy for the time trial that would follow just 1 1/2 hrs. after the end of the circuit race. Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis made a late bid in the final kilometers of the Redlands Classic to deliver Rory Sutherland to a stage and overall win, but the effort was disrupted just a couple hundred meters from the end.
“Brad White did a great job to bring back a late attack by Luis Amaran (Jamis) on the final lap in downtown Redlands,” said Team directeur sportif Gord Fraser. “Karl Menzies took over the front with Rory on his wheel..." Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took control of the Stage 2 Redlands Criterium in the final 10 laps and delivered sprinters Jake Keough and Andrew Pinfold to 2nd and 3rd in the sprint. “The guys executed really well today,” said Team directeur sportif Gord Fraser. They were really dialed in, they took control and executed a lead-out the best they have all season.” Read More...
Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took 4th place in the opening prologue of the Redlands Classic, just six seconds back of stage winner Ben Day (Fly V Australia). “I came off feeling good from last week,” Sutherland said. “I’ve done every single race since Merced. The legs started coming around at San Dimas."... Sutherland was one of five UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis riders to place in the top 17 today. Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis will take on the NRC season opener in Redlands this weekend. For many people, this begs the question: What is the NRC and what does it mean? The National Racing Calendar is USA Cycling’s national race series, which, essentially, helps determine the top team racing a full season in North America. The NRC also determines an individual national champion, with riders accruing points for race wins and placings during the season. Read More...
Rebecca Much did exactly what she needed to do to secure the overall title of the Tucson Bicycle Classic Sunday. “I just kept thinking that if I can win this stage I can win the overall,” she said.
She timed her sprint on the uphill finish to perfection, going 100 meters from the line to take the win in the circuit race, and secure the 10-second time bonus she needed to make up the seven-second deficit she had to the race leader going into the stage. Read More...
Marc de Maar, the team’s Dutch addition, took 2nd in the opening race of the Dutch criterium series Saturday. De Maar, training back in the Netherlands between camp & the Redlands Classic, took the start of the GP Oud Vossemeer looking to get some racing in his legs ahead of Redlands, and he nearly pulled off the win. “There was a break of two up the road and I was in the chase group coming to the finish,” he said. “I caught one guy in the sprint but but came up a few inches short of the win."
...Continuing with the plan from Saturday, UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis was keen to get into as many moves as possible again today. “We had another good day covering moves,” White said. “Johnny (Clarke) did a good job to get in the main move, and I got into a couple moves early as well.” While White didn’t secure any additional points in the Sprint competition today, he still held a large enough lead to hold onto the leader’s jersey. Read More...
Rory Sutherland of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis sprinted out of a late-stage five-rider break to win the second stage of the San Dimas Stage Race. The winning move came as a result of strong teamwork from his UnitedHealthcare Presented by Maxxis teammates. It also came after some re-assessing of the race strategy after the team’s top rider in the overall standings, Chris Baldwin, crashed on the second to last lap. Read More...
Karl Menzies secured the first ever overall win for the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis, finishing 3rd in Sunday’s final stage to win the omnium at the Tour de Murietta. “The guys had another good day today,” said team directeur sportif Gord Fraser. “They worked really well together yesterday in the crit & again today in the road race. They’re executing really well, and the teamwork was critical to getting Karl the overall win against some strong competition.” Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis continued its preparations ahead of the first NRC race later this month in the opening time trial stage of the Tour of Murietta this morning.
The team got off to a very good start, taking the top four positions in the time trial, as well as 6th and 7th places.
“This first stage was a good chance for the guys to get on their new Kuota Kween K TT bikes under race conditions,” said team Directeur Sportif Gord Fraser. Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis put the MERCO races in Merced this weekend to good use en route to 4th and 5th places in the criterium & road race respectively. “It was a good chance for the new guys & the veterans to start working together under race conditions,” said team Directeur Sportif Mike Tamayo. “And while we go into every race with the intention of winning, we also wanted to treat this weekend’s races as sort of like a pre-season game in football." Read More..
The 2010 season got off to a strong start for Team TIBCO. Ten riders went straight from its training camp near Santa Barbara to Merced, CA to open its season with the Snelling Road Race and Merced Criterium this weekend. They came away with two wins, as well as two more podiums.
Rebecca Much opened the weekend with a strong win in Snelling, leading a Team TIBCO charge that saw the team take four of the top five places, with Devon Haskell finishing 3rd. Read More...
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis wrapped up its official kick-off to the 2010 campaign Sunday following a week of training and team building in Tucson, Arizona, and a weekend gathering with sponsors, VIPs and special guests in Fountain Hills, outside of Phoenix. “We had a great week of training up in Tucson,” said team director Mike Tamayo. “Everyone meshed together really well, and we have a lot of strong guys who we expect to work very well together.” Read More...
The United Healthcare presented by Maxxis team is confident it will receive an invitation to the most prestigious stage race in the U.S. The 5th annual Tour of California is set to take begin on May 16 in Nevada City and conclude on May 23 in Agoura Hills just outside of Los Angeles.
"We have a solid roster and it's one of the top domestic teams in the country," said General Manager Mike Tamayo. "We have always done our best at all the events in California, Georgia or Missouri." Read More...
Pescadero, California – With its new status as a UCI-registered women’s cycling team, Team TIBCO/To the Top has added several top-performing international riders as well as a number of younger, up-and-coming riders, to an experienced returning core that includes 2009 U.S. National Road Champion Meredith Miller and 2008 Road and Criterium National Champion Brooke Miller. The team will look to build on its 2009 NRC Championship season, making its first foray into Europe in the spring. Read More...
Jan. 17, 2010 - A cool, but welcoming morning was upon us at our UCI-famed Hansen Dam Park in Los Angeles this final day of the season filled with lots of fun racing with our core cross crowd -- new SoCal High School MTB League and snappy BMX 10-14 and younger nationally ranked kids coming all the way from San Diego to celebrate the finale of the season. Read More...
The final race of the Cyclocross season for me was this Sunday at Fort Ord. Some would consider the weather we are now having "real" Cyclocross conditions! For those of us here in CA, it was the first real mud of the season. Being near the ocean, Fort Ord is typically very sandy. Even their mud is sandy, which is very different from the sticky, clay mud we have here. Cyclocross racers have many different categories for mud! Read More...
Sunday was the final of the Surf City Cyclocross Series in Aptos, CA. We all had a 3 week break from racing over the holidays and while I took advantage of some time off work to do some riding, I had not done anything close to race intensity since the last race! The CX season is definitely winding down and fields are getting smaller - I think the only people still racing in the US are those here in CA and those going to Worlds at the end of January! ... Read More
The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis returns a solid core of veterans to work with a strong new crop of young riders for the 2010 season. "One of the things this organization has always done well, from day one, is to blend veteran professionals with younger riders into consistently strong teams," said team Directeur Sportif Mike Tamayo. "The new group we have coming in has a lot of talent." ... Read More...
Of course it snowed. We were expecting it. It always snows at Nationals, accompanied by ice and frozen ruts. Sometime during the event, a blizzard comes along and blows away the tents. Cross is a winter sport and snow is normal for a winter sport. If you went skiing and it snowed would you be surprised? So deal with it. Or that's my official attitude.
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This week the town of Bend, OR hosted their 2nd national championships of the year with Cyclocross nationals for all ages: juniors, masters and elites... This week, temps hit minus 20 overnight, which was another record! We arrived Wed. late afternoon in time for a couple laps of the course before dark. It was about 15 degrees and most of the course was covered in snow. I now had 2 days to learn how to ride in snow! ... Read More
...Kerry decided to go about a foot to the left of the gap and bunny hop the curb. I was right on her wheel and thus could not really see the curb and was just expecting to ride though the gap. I didn't really have time to react when I saw her bunny hop and I hit the curb pretty hard with my front wheel. Luckily I was leaning back enough that I didn't endo, but it made for a pretty squirmy landing back on the loose, soft mulch. At first I thought I might have flatted... Read More...
This is a classic course and similar to the one that was used for the USGP of CX in 2005. It has a bit of everything: 200m pavement start/finish, some flat power sections, loose turning sections, small sand pit, 2 run-ups (one with a barrier at the bottom) a double barrier and a couple of very short climbs. The most treacherous part was a new for 2009: a deep, steep sandy descent right into the 2nd run-up that got more and more churned up as the day went on. ...Read More
It was a perfect day at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco -- 70 degrees, a huge turnout of racers, and a cheering crowd high on, um, well cyclocross I guess.
In my 55+ race, the dawn prelude to the day's racing, I got away with the juniors again. This time I got edged out by some kid from Santa Cruz -- sorry don't know his name -- who got in front of me over the last set of barriers. Actually I think that this is kind of great. The juniors should certainly be beating me. ...Read More
...It was just Janel and me duking it out for 2nd overall and 1st in the 45's. And what a battle! This was definitely the hardest I have gone all year. We were passing people from the A wave which started a minute before. Janel was a little better on the technical parts, and when she passed me with a lap to go, I thought I might be dead. But somehow I dug deep and went really hard in the pedaling places; on every hill and straightaway. ...Read More
Race # 5 of the Central Coast CX Series was at Manzanita Park in Prunedale. We raced race #1 here as well. I like this course - a little climbing, some sandy, technical turns, bumpy descent - a bit of everything. Finish is a gradual uphill pavement sprint of about 200-250m. Unusual for this race however was no dismounts at all. They removed the barrier before the run-up we had last time, making it rideable (although a bit of a grind!)... Read More
This was the famous Night Race at Sierra Point. As a racer and more of a "morning person", I am not a huge fan of racing at night, but I will admit it made a great spectator venue. They had construction lights set up around the course, so visibility was not really a problem in the race itself. Everywhere else was pretty cold and dark though – made it hard to find all your black clothes in the back of your car! ...Read More
...Just 2 dry creek bed crossings, 4 hairpins, a double barrier and the race was mine. All I had to do was not mess up. Then I messed up... The first hairpin around a big tree was a little loose and my front wheel washed out and I went down. ...Read More
Sunday was race #3 in the Surf City Series. Venue was the same as the Halloween race, but they changed the course a bit. Mainly they added more times off the bike, which is not so good for me! Besides the same finish line double barrier, there was a set of uphill double barriers, a short stair section, & then a kind of long run up. The tricky thing about the run up was that at the top of it was a short, bumpy downhill into a loose turn, & then the same steep but (barely) rideable uphill... More
This race is always on the calendar, on account of the Halloween Hijinks that are so much fun. This year, John, Lizzy Allbut and I dressed in an Underwear theme, based on some brand new size 50" waist men's white boxer briefs we happened upon at a thrift store. All 3 of us wore them, with formal suspenders, black bras, and panties on our heads. No hidden meaning, but so obnoxious that we made quite an impression. Pretty comfortable to race in, too, on an almost 80 degree day. Read More...
We had a good sized women's Elite field of about 25 riders including no less than 3 "retired" pros who have competed CX at the World Cup and Worlds level: Kerry Barnholt, Carmen D'Aluisio and Gina Hall (making her first CX race appearance of the year). The rest of the usual top NorCal suspects were there as well. The course was pretty good for me: only 1 time off the bike per lap with a double barrier going around a turn only about 20m from the finish line. Read More...
... This was the first CX race I have done where I only used my small chain ring (a 34). There were just never any real power sections where you could get any speed - the few straight flat sections were on loose, bumpy sand and grass, and the descents all had short uphill turns at the bottom where you needed to low gears and did not want to risk dropping a chain with a front shift. Nobody else I knew used their big ring either. Read More...
Now, it’s the morning of the first day of racing. Tonight will be a show! For people who don’t know 6-day racing, I like to describe it like boxing in Las Vegas… its all about entertainment. The big names are here and the promoter expects everyone to put on a show. Don’t get me wrong, the racing will be tough. But, it will be fun too! Read More...
... The descent was a really fun single track with shallow, banked turns that you could really fly down. Then there were 2 sets of tape zig-zag sections on dirt/grass fields and 2 barrier sections. Some of the turns were pretty loose and off camber, but compared to the other races I have done this year, I would say this one was probably the least technical. No run-ups! ... In general, if there was a course I could win on, this would be it! ... Read More
The race was at the Soquel High School course where I raced last year. Course is basically flat but with some steep little kickers up and down the sides of berms, some of which are loose and off camber. There was also a long section of power sucking turns and zig zags on bumpy grass. There is quite a long steep, loose run-up... Read More
Sunday was the first race in the Bay Area Super Prestige Cyclocross Series in McLaren Park in South San Francisco. The BASP series... is the most competitive of the NorCal CX race series. The series is 5 races and McLaren Park is probably the most demanding course. It definitely has the most climbing and also features the longest run-up of the series. What goes up must come down though, and in between the climbs and run-up are some very bumpy, single track technical descents... Read More
With all four ProMan riders making it to the finals, the scene was set for a fast race. Teammate, 17-year-Old Coryn Rivera launched an attack right off the line, drawing out the field. A potential winning move of ProMan’s Christen King & Theresa Cliff Ryan was bought back after establishing a considerable gap. Olds countered, dug deep and lapped the field. Read More...
After collecting four medals at this year’s Pan American Track Cycling Championships, Higgins began her quest for the Stars-and-Stripes tonight at the first National Championship Omnium at the ADT Velodrome in Carson CA, winning what is to be the first of eight events she will contest at these national championships. Cari grabbed the sixth national title of her career in impressive fashion placing first in three of the five omnium events. Read More...
The Webcor women's team including Katheryn, Karen, Patt and new 2010 Webcor team member, Lindsay Myers will be helping to lead a TrekWomen Breast Cancer Awareness ride on Sat. Oct. 10 hosted by The Bicycle Outfitter. The ride leaves from The Bicycle Outfitter in Los Altos at 10 am. There are 10, 25 and 50 mile options (the 50 mile option is a "secret" - just sign up for the 25 mile route and there will be an extra mileage option).
Sign up at: https://event-manager.compete-at.com/Manager/event/home.do?eid=1494
and support a great cause and ride with some team members. There is also an outdoor...
In what everyone has named the hardest World Championship road course in at least the last decade, Webcor's Erinne Willock rode to a phenomenal 7th place in the Elite Women's Road Race. More than 120 women started the race and only 56 finished, with Erinne ending up in the very select group of 15 riders contesting the medals on the final lap. This was a career best placing at Worlds for Erinne. Read the race report...
I took the third sprint by coming around. Meanwhile, people were attacking. Marsha went off the front, but her teammate chased her down with me on her wheel!
On the 4th sprint I let Jane Rinard take it, as she was in the 55’s, and I took 2nd.
I could hear the announcer, John Beckman, and I knew that coming into the final I was in the lead, but only by 3 points ahead of Melanie. I had good shelter and was able to pass her, and everyone else, at the line to take it with 17 points. Read More...
September will be a busy month for women's cycling in Ireland, with the announcement of a full Irish Team which will race in the UCI 2.2 event, Tour de l'Ardeche, in France.
The Team will be headed by Siobhan Dervan, who is currently demonstrating the form that had her in the sprint for 6th place at the World Championships last year. US based Touchstone rider Olivia Dillon will also strengthen the team, along with current Irish National Champion Heather Wilson. Read More...
Kansas City, MO - Andrew Pinfold took a very close 2nd in the final sprint of the final stage of the Tour of Missouri To Martin Gilbert (Planet Energy).
Pinfold was put into perfect position by teammate Karl Menzies inside the final kilometer, and they both benefited from an attack by Tim Johnson with 3 km to go which kept the pace high. Read More...
Stage 3: Rolla, MO — In the chaotic sprint that marked the end of Stage 3 of the Tour of Missouri, John Murphy and Andrew Pinfold changed up their tactics a bit and both wound up in the top 10 on the stage... Stage 4: Jefferson City, MO - Brad White lived up to his reputation as one of the most aggressive riders in the pro peloton... White earned the Most Aggressive Rider jersey after instigating and helping to drive the main break of the day... Read More...
Katheryn, Lauren and I are here in St. Louis for the Tour of Missouri Women's Series. There are 4 criteriums in the St. Louis area. The organizers invited all the top women's teams to attend and are really trying to get some increased exposure for the women's event. Read More...
Greenville, S.C. - Pat McCarty jumped in the decisive break in the closing circuits in of the U.S. Pro Road Race in Greenville and finished 6th in the race behind George Hincapie (Columbia-HTC), who took the third national championship of his career. Read More...
As final preparation for the upcoming Tour of Missouri crits, Katheryn, Lauren Hecht and I loaded up the team Subaru and headed to Vacaville for the Northern CA district criterium championships (also part of the Cal Cup). This is actually a race I had never done before, but I had heard it was a fun course. Read More...
With her win in the U23 National Championship MTB Race, Amy qualified a spot on the US team for the U23 Words MTB team in Australia. Here's her report:
I flew to Australia with a solid head on my shoulders, feeling confident in the training I had done in the preceding weeks & looking forward to good legs at a world class race. Little did I know that I should have been spending those weeks hucking myself off cliffs and preparing myself for a mix between downhill & trials... Read More
Katheryn finished off with a large gap of about 40 sec. and I found Karen's wheel for a lead-out on the last lap. I was late finding her wheel, but when she kicked we were first and second into the final 2 turns. I wasn't quite prepared for Karen's lead out and she gapped me a bit going through the turns. When we hit the front straight she had about a bike length on me and we had greatly gapped the rest of the field... Read More
Salt Lake City, UT - 8/23/09 - U.S. National Criterium Champion John Murphy took 2nd place in the final stage of the 2009 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. Murphy finished just behind Australian criterium champion Bernard Sulzberger (Fly V) in the sprint finish.
“We took over the front of the race with eight laps to go,” said team directeur sportif Mike Tamayo. “We wanted to control the race at the end and do the full lead-out for Murph. The team did a great job of riding for John.” Read More...
August 19, 2009 - Salt Lake City, UT - It only took Brad White about 40 miles before he picked up where he left off in last year’s Tour of Utah. In 2008, his attacking style of riding earned him the Tour’s sprinter’s jersey. Today, it earned him the race’s first King of the Mountains jersey. Read More...
After a very short break, Katheryn is back to racing the local Northern CA classic Cal Cup races. She had her first win in the Patterson Pass road race... Patterson Pass road race is one of the toughest races in NorCal... The Tour of California has used the climb, from both directions, for each of its runnings. The climb begins within in the first 5k and stairsteps up for about 3k, with a lovely false summit that leaves your jaw dropped to your top tube... Read More
John Murphy will wear the stars and stripes jersey of the U.S. National Criterium Champion for the next 12 months.
Murphy took advantage of exceptional work by his four teammates and succeeded in avoiding several crashes - including one by his own lead-out, Karl Menzies with less than half a kilometer remaining in the race - to cross the line as first American to take the national champion’s jersey. Read More...
With only a final-stage criterium between Karl Menzies and the overall title of the Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove, the task facing the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis seemed pretty straightforward. However, throw in the facts that the crit was over 110 km long with strong winds on the long finishing straight, and that the team had done a significant amount of work Saturday to put Menzies in position to take the leader’s jersey, the job was far from simple. Read More...
As preparation for Cascade and Nationals, Rebecca raced the famous Mt. Evans Hill Climb in CO where climbing legends are made and won it handily!
Here is Rebecca's report: "The road that leads to the top of Mount Evans is the highest paved road in America going up above 14,000 ft. The race is a mass start that begins in Idaho Springs and from there goes steadily up for the next 27 miles to the top of the mountain while the air gets progressively thinner and thinner." Read More...
The final race of the US national championships was the individual time trial. The course was the Cascade TT course plus an extra loop at the end with some short, relatively steep hills coming just when one is tired. It was a long TT for nationals with the winning time of 50:35. Everyone had the previous days' road race in their legs as well. Webcor's Evelyn Stevens missed the title by 1.7 seconds! Read More...
Webcor was a small but committed team of 3 riders for the US National Road Race. We were up against Tibco's and ValuAct's team of 8, plus strong individual riders like our Cascade guest, Evelyn (who chose to race for her club for nationals as her swan song in their jersey), and Mara Abbott fresh from Europe.
We raced smart and ended up with a podium finish as well as the Under-23 national title! Read More...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - Boulder's Cari Higgins continued her Pan American Cycling Championships on Tuesday with a second place finish at the CERA Velodrome in Mexico City.
Higgins won the silver medal in the women's scratch race track cycling event. Current scratch race World Champion Yumari Gonzalez of Cuba narrowly won the gold in a close finish. Read More...
July 22, 2009 - Milwaukee, WI - Menzies took the win in today’s 150km Lake Front Road Race in a two up sprint, seconds ahead of the remnants of a 12-rider break he had attacked a couple miles before the finish of the race. Read More...
Boulder's Cari Higgins (PROMAN Hit Squad Cycling Team) started off her Pan American Cycling Championships with a third place finish on Sunday representing the US National Team. Higgins won the bronze medal in the women's 500 meter track cycling event (35.42 sec) behind winner, former World Champion, Lisandra Guerra of Cuba and silver medalist, Diana Garcia of Columbia. This is the first medal for the USA at the Championships. See More...
Stevens, who is an amateur and was racing as a cat. 4 just 10 months ago, was thrilled to win the yellow jersey. “There were only six of us, but it felt like there were 25 Webcor riders out there,” she said. “I think we all gave it everything we had to keep me in the yellow jersey today. It was super hard. I couldn’t have won this without them, there’s no way. Each and every one of those riders gave everything they had ... We’re definitely a tired bunch.” Read Full Race Report...
For her final preparation for the Cascade Classic, Amy did the U23 National Mountain Bike Championships in her home state of CO. This is Amy's last year as a U23 (Under 23) rider, so she wants to win nationals in ALL the cycling disciplines (she already has the U23 CX title)!...
“Neck and neck the entire race, it was a truly exciting race to race, and also to watch. I am stoked to have won, but need to offer mad props to Chloe for her racing.”...
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uly 13, 2009 - Vancouver, B.C. – Andrew Pinfold of the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis finished off a strong opening weekend of B.C. Superweek by winning the White Spot Road Race, the final stage of the Tour de Delta, Sunday. It was the third straight year Pinfold has won this stage.
Pinfold was part of a four-rider break initiated by Bissell’s Morgan Schmitt that went off the front early in the final 8km lap of the 140km race... Read More
As John Murphy noted after the Cytomax Benicia Criterium, “you don’t want to leave empty handed from a race sponsored by one of your sponsors.”
Murphy took this race by the hands and came away with the win after attacking out of a small break with four laps to go and soloing in for the victory on an afternoon where temperatures hovered around the 100-degree mark. Read More...
You don't want it to happen to you and you don't want to be the person behind somebody unclipping their pedals in a final sprint...
But before this happened, Erinne rocked from the beginning of the 135 km Canadian national road race. She attacked from the gun just before the hill, creating a gap that nobody could close on the hill. She worked it and got up to 50 sec., but the long descent after the gradual climbs meant that the little green power bullet had to go like 60 km/hr by herself...
San Luis Obispo, CA - A recent California Polytechnic University graduate is embarking on the journey of a lifetime — a 15,000-mile solo bicycle ride from the northern tip of Alaska to the southernmost point of South America...Part of the reason for his adventure is to raise money and awareness for the nonprofit organization Acirfa... Read more...
Excerpted from a VeloNews.com article by Mark Deterline
Published: Jun. 21, 2009 -
Lance Armstrong and Shelly Olds won their respective Nevada City Classics on Sunday, both using strong solo efforts to ride to victory in the 49th annual race through the Northern California mining town. Read more...
Princeton, NJ - June 21, 2009 - Jonathan Chodroff rode to his strength en route to winning the five-stage Giro di Jersey this past weekend. The elite time trial national champion crushed everyone in the Stage 3 individual time trial, winning by 0:41 and taking a commanding lead that he held the final two days to earn the overall win. Read more...
Mankato, MN - June 13, 2009 - After 6 crashes and a flat in 2 days, the Webcor team showed what a never-say-die attitude can bring. We started Stage 5 with our top-placed GC rider Nikki in 25th place 1:37 down. Alex was 40th at 2:28.
138 km later, Webcor was in 2nd overall, and held the Best Young Rider, Queen of the Mountain and Most Aggressive Rider jerseys! For the first time in 2 years, Kristin Armstrong was put into difficulty on US soil and Webcor was the team to do it!
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Stillwater, MN – June 14, 2009 - Since the end of the opening stage time trial Wednesday morning, Rory Sutherland of the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis had been chasing race leader Tom Zirbel (Bissell), needing to close a gap of 0:13 to repeat as champion of the Nature Valley Grand Prix. Finally, in the closing minutes of the final stage Sunday, Sutherland caught and passed Zirbel to erase the last seven seconds of his deficit, and take the overall title of the six-stage race...
Cannon Falls, MN – June 11, 2009 - John Murphy of the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis didn’t quite get the desired result – the victory – in the Stage 3 Cannon Falls Road Race at Nature Valley Grand Prix Thursday. But his 3rd place behind the Colavita/Sutter Home duo of Alejandro Barrajo and Lucas Haedo did give him back the six seconds he lost the evening before, and moved him up to 4th overall, 0:16 behind race leader Tom Zirbel (Bissell), and just ahead of teammate Karl Menzies...
St. Paul, MN – June 10, 2009 - Rory Sutherland of the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis made a strong opening statement that he was back to earn his second consecutive Nature Valley Grand Prix title by finishing second in Wednesday morning’s opening time trial, 0:13 behind Bissell’s TT specialist, Tom Zirbel...
Ina Tuetenburg from High Road has won this race twice before and is one of the best sprinters in the world right now and was definitely the pre-race favorite. She is also climbing better than ever before, so we knew she might also try to win from a break on the climb. This ended up being exactly what happened and unfortunately Webcor was not represented in the break. The bright spot however was Amy winning the Miji Reoch "Best Young Rider" award for the top finisher under age 23...
Monday was the start of the 4 day, 5 stage Grand Tour of Montreal. Most of the teams from the World Cup stay on to compete in this race. With 3 relatively flat road stages, a criterium and a very short time trial, this has become know as a sprinter's race to win, and all the European teams come with their top sprinters. It is a bit of a different peloton from the stage racing one we are more used to. The typical Montreal rain doesn't make things any easier! ...
Posted by Jeff Sobul in Team News on June 6th, 2009
Hood River, OR - The newest member of the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took exactly three stages to get his first win for his new team.
Chris Baldwin powered through gusty, 30 mph winds in the Hood River Gorge to win the Stage 2 individual time trial of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic.
“The wind just kinda rips down the gorge,” Baldwin said. “It’s hard to do a race like that when you feel like a human sail...
While the California Webcor contingent was at Mt. Hamilton, Amy was racing the Iron Horse Classic in Colorado.
Here’s an excerpt from Amy's entertaining report of the first stage:
The road race had turned into a hillclimb time trial for me, so I went through a variety of different mental states, ranging from ‘this sucks! A $50 entry fee for a training ride?!’ to ‘Harden up, you can get yourself top 5 instead of lousy 6th!’ to ‘screw this I’m tired of pedaling’ to...
Oakland, CA – The OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis has added Chris Baldwin, a two-time U.S. National Time Trial Champion, to its roster for the remainder of the 2009 season... “I’m ready to do whatever the team needs me to,” he added. “I love helping other guys, riding the front or driving a break. I’m just excited to get started.”
Baldwin won’t have to wait long. He’ll get his first test wearing the OUCH Presented by Maxxis colors at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic...
Posted by Jeff Sobul in Team News on May 21st, 2009
Ventura, CA - Roman Kilun won the final stage and finished 2nd overall at the two-day, three-stage Ventura County Stage Race this past weekend.
The final stage was a hilly, 62-mile circuit race run over a 5.7 mile course around Ojai...
From Karen Brems, Team Manager: May 25, 2009 - San Jose, CA - The Mt. Hamilton Classic is one of the longest running races in the Bay Area. The first time I did this race was 17 years ago! It is an epic course that climbs the highest peak in the area: Mt. Hamilton at over 4000 ft. It always draws the best local climbers out... This was Katheryn's first time doing this race and she did it in style! ...
From Steve McCauley, USA Cycling Development Director
We recently completed a new movie about the USA Cycling National Team development programs in Europe. There are interviews with Kristin Armstrong, George Hincapie, Taylor Phinney, Amber Rais, Tyler Farrar, Will Frischkorn and Bob Stapleton. We would like to thank all of them for assisting in the project. I hope you will take five minutes to watch, and pass it on to your friends and family. The movie is available on the USA Cycling Development Foundation page at http://www.usacdf.org and also at this link: http://www.vimeo.com/4529549
Don’t forget, you can also support the USA Cycling...
Monday, May 11, 2009, 07:14 AM
Posted by Coryn Rivera
It's really happening. All that I've been dreaming of, racing in Europe. It's here. It didn't hit me until I walked into registration, looking at all the other Belgian girls thinking, "Sweet, I get to race these euro chicks and show 'em what's up." ...
Fayetteville, AR - May 9, 2009 - Stage 3 of the Joe Martin Stage race was another day for the sprinters. The plan for Webcor was to try to get a breakaway off to sweep up the time bonuses and maybe move one of our riders up, or set up Gina for the sprint if it came to that to keep the other sprinters close behind Erinne and Katheryn from gaining any time bonuses.
The Webcor team had a successful finish to the Tour of the Gila – this was one of the hardest races the team has ever done in the US!
The 2nd stage of the Joe Martin Stage Race was a road race with a significant climb at the midway point. The Webcor team rode a great race, but did not quite get the win we hoped for. It was a good learning experience though!