Tag: criterium
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Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge
What an exciting finale to the USA Crits Speedweek series! This was the first year that I was able to race the Sandy Springs crit, and I really like the course which is very hilly. Here is a topocreator map and elevation profile I made using the beta version of topocreator.com (coming very soon!!!). The…
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Sunny King Criterium
What an awesome event attracting many of the nation’s top crit riders right here to Alabama’s only NRC ranked race! The Sunny King criterium is awesome. The traditional break that laps the field never materialized — although there was a large break with a gap hovering between 10 an 20 seconds for a large part…
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Athens Twilight and Historic Roswell Criterium Reports
Athens Twilight I by cjbroom on deviantART Updated – Historic Roswell Criterium Report added at the end Wow – what a rush! It is so hard to describe racing 80 laps of a 1k course lined with 30,000+ fans screaming from the rooftops of buildings, inches from your face on the corners, and on every…
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Athens Twilight and Historic Roswell Criterium Reports
Athens Twilight I by cjbroom on deviantART Updated – Historic Roswell Criterium Report added at the end Wow – what a rush! It is so hard to describe racing 80 laps of a 1k course lined with 30,000+ fans screaming from the rooftops of buildings, inches from your face on the corners, and on every…
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Spain Park Hoover Cycling Festival Criterium
Can’t beat racing less than 5 miles from home! Well maybe a winning a race 5 miles from home would be better – but alas it was not to be this week. Still, it was a good race with a small but strong field. There were lots of attacks early that ended up eventually splitting…
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Tour de Tuscaloosa Weekend
Criterium The Tour de Tuscaloosa has to be one of my favorite race weekends of the year – plus it’s less than an hour’s drive from home! The Saturday criterium was held later on Saturday evening under the lights. The course was an eight-corner course with a large 35-40mph downhill and a stair-step climb. I…
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Tour de Tuscaloosa Weekend
Criterium The Tour de Tuscaloosa has to be one of my favorite race weekends of the year – plus it’s less than an hour’s drive from home! The Saturday criterium was held later on Saturday evening under the lights. The course was an eight-corner course with a large 35-40mph downhill and a stair-step climb. I…
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Regions Albany Stage Race
It’s been over a week since this race finished. I wanted to write up my report sooner, but life outside of cycling was quite hectic immediately after returning from the race — starting with some very nasty stomach/intestinal bug on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday of last week. Here’s an edited copy of the report I sent out to…
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Cycling in Nicaragua
A bike race in Managua – 1. 6:30 wakeup by the kids, goodbye to Kristine 2. 6:50 walk out the door pick up taxi on the way to the bus station 3. 7:20 Take a “microbus” to Managua – these microbuses only leave when they are full and cost $2. When I arrived, there was…
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Cycling in Nicaragua
A bike race in Managua – 1. 6:30 wakeup by the kids, goodbye to Kristine 2. 6:50 walk out the door pick up taxi on the way to the bus station 3. 7:20 Take a “microbus” to Managua – these microbuses only leave when they are full and cost $2. When I arrived, there was…