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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!