Glencoe is this Saturday. Aside from being a National race, it’s also the State Crit Champs. It already looks like there will be huge fields, even possibly getting triple-digits of riders in some. Below is the preview from before last year’s race. The course is the same. See you there.
This one comes from Brion Goudreau’s Elgin Cycling Classic photos. This weekend the team will split racing duties between the “regional” and traditional Memorial Day Weekend Bike races, and the more “local” (but equally as fun) ABD Memorial Day Masters series.
Our Cat 5 men and Cat 4 women continue to impress! Last weekend, racing took the team to the first (hopefully of many) Fox River Omnium. The omnium combined a technical, not-very-hilly crit in Elgin on Saturday with the brutally steep and hilly Fox River Grove crit on Sunday. Scoring for the overall was [...]
In Urbana, Mara snagged the team it’s first ever U.S.A. Cycling women’s road victory. We love scoring new “firsts” and love it even more when it involves categories that we haven’t always competed in. Last weekend, the Illinois cup took us to the Monsters of the Midway Crit in Hyde Park. We had both Ashley [...]
…and ours are on a roll! Ashley hits the top podium spot in her first ever W4′s crit. The girls are red-hot having now won two weeks in a row. Nice job Ashley! Details on the rest of the team to follow.
The Illinois Cycling Association has been recording some videos after the Illinois Cup races. Today we noticed that they’ve posted a little video of Sunday’s Women’s Cat 4 winner. Congrats again to Mara… whose future is so bright, apparently she had to wear shades!
Last weekend saw the first Illinois Cup stop outside the greater Chicago metro area. On Saturday we raced the “Tour de Champaign” on the campus of the U of I in brutal heat. Sunday saw racing in downtown Urbana on a tight, technical course. Mara Baltabols (above) snuck away from the women’s 4′s field with [...]