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Small Time Crash, Big Time Chasing: Louisville Day 2 - A Column by Ben Popper
October 31st, 2008 Filed Under editorial, rider diary
When you ride like I do, you’re going to crash eventually. All season I’ve dreaded the day I go down. I’m recklessly fast through the barriers, and I’ve seen that video of Nys going down, and I knew my time would come. I’m fortunate that it didn’t turn out as bad as it could have and thankful that nobody else went down, but it certainly did make the second day of the USGP in Louisville interesting for me. [More…]
Weekend Preview and Fantasy Cyclocross Minute - October 31, 2008
October 31st, 2008 Filed Under cyclocross news, editorial, fantasy, racing
Jacob Sisson has got another weekend preview and fantasy league outlook. Enjoy!
It’s an action packed couple of days this weekend, as the UCI has put together a set of three C1 races for us to worry about. The action is not just confined to Europe, either, with the United States playing host to some hot racing action. Colorado is the site of this Sunday’s C1 Boulder Cup, which will showcase the top North American talent as they vie for the lead in the North American Cyclocross Trophy series. Saturday’s menu has on tap the Internationale Veldritten op de Koppenberg in Oudenaarde, Belgium. [More…]
SSCXWC - More Schedule Details “Leaked”
October 31st, 2008 Filed Under cyclocross news, racing
Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships Weekend Update (Imagine Tina Fey reading it to you)
For impatient readers everything important is in Bold. Pretty cool, huh?
SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7TH- Realize the race qualifiers are the next day, scramble to complete/purchase/build a single speed cross bike. Consider sweet costume idea and gather friends and family for the heckling competition. Oh, and travel to Portland and remember how to have fun.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8TH- The Earth ceases rotation for appropriate qualifier race conditions. [More…]
Boulder Cup Returns This Weekend
October 31st, 2008 Filed Under cyclocross news, press releases, racing
The Boulder Cup returns this weekend to Boulder, Colorado and promises top-level racing, with half the country’s UCI-point hunters primed to do battle at altitude (the other half being at the Cycle-Smart International in Northhampton, MA). But with a “CycloCruise” and “Wacky Start Lines,” is Boulder going Cross Crusade on us? Full press release below:
Boulder Cup has Arrived! The Wildest Cyclocross Weekend of the Year!
Boulder’s finest cyclocross racing is finally here!. With a competitive field and fall in the air, this is the weekend you won’t want to miss. Whether you’re a fan, new to cyclocross or racing it yourself, it will be two days you won’t soon forget. [More…]
Cycle-Smart International Preview: The Nation’s Oldest UCI Event Returns This Weekend
October 30th, 2008 Filed Under cyclocross news, press releases, racing
NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts - This week brought an early onset to winter as many in the New England region hunkered down with the first storm of the season. But the next storm will be not snow nor rain but some of New England’s best cyclists as the swarm invades Northampton, Massachusetts for the country’s oldest UCI event, the Cycle-Smart International, on November 1st and 2nd. In its 18th year, this year’s contest will build on the prestige and popularity of previous editions and for the first time since 1996 the event will offer 2 days of racing in the Pioneer Valley. [More…]
Apple Trees, Parking with the Stars, and Mexican Pizza - A World Cup Perspective by Christine Vardaros
October 30th, 2008 Filed Under cyclocross photos, editorial, rider diary
Tales from Tabor
by Christine “Peanut” Vardaros
Leading up to the Tabor race, my excitement steadily grew - partly in anticipation of the actual race and partly because I had never been to Czech Republic. I always wondered what it was like in that part of the world. Well, it surely didn’t disappoint. [More…]
McLaughlin Continues Winning Streak, Upshaw Solos to Victory in Chicago
October 30th, 2008 Filed Under 'cross race results, cyclocross news, press releases
By Imelda March
A sunny but extremely windy day greeted the riders in the Village of Bartlett, a northwest suburb of the City of Chicago. [More…]
MAC, MABRA, and OVCX Promise Shotguns, Haunted Barns, and Pies
October 29th, 2008 Filed Under cyclocross news, press releases, racing
The Mid Atlantic and Ohio Valley Area have some unique fun in store for races this weekend. See the press releases below.
Zipp OVCX Tour Returns to Cincinnati with a Bang
Miamiville, Ohio, USA: Golfers are familiar with the term “Shotgun Start”, but they’ve never had, nor heard, anything like this. Following a month of UCI racing in Ohio and Kentucky, the Zipp OVCX Tour returns to the Cincinnati area for the second half of its 2008 season on November 2 with the Gun Club Cyclocross. Held at the Sycamore Pheasant Gun Club in Miamiville Ohio, it’s not hard for spectators around the course to determine when the action has begun. [More…]
Berg and Weighall Answer Opportunity’s Knock at Seattle Cyclocross #4
October 29th, 2008 Filed Under 'cross race results, cyclocross news, press releases
by LeRoi Smith, Photos by Janet Hill
Lakewood, WA - On a sunny 63-degree day at the end of October, you will be hard-pressed to find anyone complaining about the weather in Seattle. However ‘cross racers are little different. Quite a few were feeling guilty about enjoying the sun and many were looking forward to the cold and wet that is sure to come. Meanwhile everyone enjoyed a brutally fast, dry course at Steilacoom Park. The course did not use the foreboding Knapp-time run-up. Instead it reached the same point via a dirt road climb that dared riders to attack, just before grinding to a leg-crushing run-up, forced by 4 max-height barriers. The combination had many riders remembering the 80-meter straight-up run fondly. [More…]
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire - a Column by Andrew Bernstein
October 29th, 2008 Filed Under editorial, rider diary
Join Andrew Bernstein as he embarks on the adventure of his first season of ‘cross and reminds us of our own newbie days. In this third installment, he makes the jump to big-time cyclocross racing in Gloucester, and at the same time, upgrades from a mountain bike to a real ‘cross bike. The first installment of his column is here, and the second is here.
100 racers stacked in front of me. Cowbells clanging, fans yelling from the distant start/finish. An ocean breeze carrying the slimy scent of cheap adult beverages down from the beer tent. It’s the start of the B race at the Erdinger Gran Prix of Gloucester, and I think I’m going to wet my chamois. [More…]