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 [...]
Remember back in November when we were excited to ride our bikes? Or, in December, when we were excited to ride the computrainers? People didn’t know why we were so excited for mundane winter training. When Patrick Fasse put on a power clinic, he knew why. When Rob Kelley gathered the team for a motivational [...]
You know the season is in full force when the Pella practice crits start. Guess what? That’s tonight. Full details on the practice crits are here: http://www.abdcycling.com/events/wednights.html They will get called off if the weather is too dicey. Current forecast looks like there could be rain. Keep an eye on the ABD twitter account for [...]
Our friends at www.pelotonstar.com always seem to get good shots of the Bicycle Heaven Racing Team in action. Today we make the front of their “teaser” for this weekend’s action.
Racing returned to the City of Chicago, Illinois today. Of course, we were there. Highlight of the day was Andy Swims crawling into the Cat 3 break and then driving it for nearly a half an hour. On the bell lap Swims attacked from very far out, was able to out-sprint two teammates from an [...]
It was chilly and windy out at Leland this weekend. We had hoped for nothing less. Several members of Team Bicycle Heaven (including 3 Women teaming up in the Women’s 4′s) tackled the gravel in what has got to be the most difficult road race in the state. Attrition was high across the board, with [...]
There have been rumors of local teams running down to Leland to pre-ride the course. Glad we’re not the only ones looking forward to this race. The current weather forecast is for bad weather. And by “bad” we mean “good” meaning that it’s currently not supposed to be wet, cold, or brutally windy. That could [...]