The Central Indiana Bicycling Association, Inc. (CIBA) is proud to sponsor the Annual Hilly Hundred Weekend, a classic bicycle event designed for the touring bicyclist. If you like a bicycling challenge that includes entertainment and fellowship with more than 5,500 bicyclists from over 40 states and several foreign countries, the Hilly is for you.
Not to let the cat out of the bag too soon, but I have confirmation from 4 riders to have a raw vegan 4 person team for the 2010 Race Across America. More details to follow as I have them.
had a handicap race where there was only 3 of us riders off scratch and the limit bunch got a 16min headstart on a 40k circuit! lol!
so i lined up with matt king (2008 australian under 23 time trial champ and south australia.com rider) and chris loynes (2008 northern territory road and time trial champ) and im thinking that maybe i should have done a little longer warm up..lol! after a few laps i couldnt swap turns with these 2 and just rode my race to the finish.
either way, we all got a solid workout and im enjoying racing div 1 with guys that are the best in down under.
Here's two inspiring pics of OA members: Emile de Rosnay winning a criterium in Victoria, BC and
John Saponara on his way to bronze in the South Carolina (my home state!) Time Trial Championships. John's daughter took gold.
With my current state of cycling fitness I can only dream of such feats. Tomorrow I'm hoping for some running form. I'm doing a 10K in Santa Rosa. I'll post a report afterwards.
I finally won the jersey at the state hillclimb championship. The race is 20 miles up Mt Graham in Safford. The start is at about 3400ft and the finish is over 9000ft at a decent grade (maybe 7% average) with quite a few steep switchbacks. This year a Mexican team (P&S) showed up with some strong guys, but fortunately they weren't eligible for the state championship jersey. After a few early attacks, Carlos Lopez (winner of Tour of Guatemala 07) attacked the lead group. I didn't respond as I was thinking about the jersey.
The course is only 12.5 miles (4.4 flat then abruptly climbing 2000’ for the remaining 8.1 miles). Our field took the flat at a very mellow pace, then the _ _ _ _ hit the fan as we started the climb. In about 1 minute, the lead group was down to 6. After about 5 minutes, a solo rider accelerated away from our group. I was monitoring just one guy and felt if the escapee was a threat to the guy I was watching that he would quickly close up the gap. He did not seem bothered so we rode on as 5 as the escapee disappeared from sight.
Congrats to OA Victoria's racers, who all finished well in each of their events on Sunday! The Times Colonist Bastion Square Criterium is the biggest road race on the island, and typically one of the biggest in BC, and marks the closure of the road season here this year. The course is in downtown Victoria, a four-corner road course around the popular Bastion Square market.
Our Sonoma County chapter organized the 4th annual Tour d'Organics in Sebastopol this past weekend. Over 1000 cyclist participated. I'll get a more in depth report later, but for now suffice it say that it was awesome.
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