1st Katharine Carroll
3rd Shelley Evans
5th Ruth Winder
Monday, May 31, 2010
IRON HORSE CYCLING CLASSIC
1st Mara Abbott
3rd Alisha Welsh
3rd Alisha Welsh
After the last three outings, it's become apparent the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic women's road race belongs to Mara Abbott.
Everyone else is just along for the ride.
Abbott saddled up for her third consecutive IHBC road race title, finishing in 2 hours, 37 minutes, 1 second to win by 4:47, while shaving 2:52 from her 2009 time.
The win moved Abbott into a tie with Juli Furtado for the most IHBC women's road race titles with three. Furtado won each year from 1993-1995.
Full report here!Saturday, May 29, 2010
SUPERIOR MORGUL CLASSIC - STREET SPRINTS
1st Cari Higgins
SUPERIOR -- Starts were tricky Friday in the first leg of the Superior Morgul Classic on a 300-meter stretch of Coalton Road southwest of Flatirons Mall. Those who found the right gear first generally hit the finish line ahead of the pack in an exciting and unique day of street sprints.
Cari Higgins of Boulder nailed the start in her two qualifying heats and the finals in the women`s pro race. She won all three sprints and earned the leader`s jersey plus valuable points heading into today`s criterium and the first edition of the Superior Morgul road race in 20 years on Sunday.
"It was awesome," Higgins said. "It`s so cool that the city of Superior is putting this on. It`s cool for fans to see us up close going fast."
Higgins said the key to her success was starting in the appropriate gear and then switching gears seamlessly to generate as much power as possible through the brief races that generally lasted less than a minute. Higgins has been racing for four years but had never competed in street sprints prior to Friday. She said she believed training in Boulder`s velodrome helped her with the starts because cyclists often help each other start in similar fashion in training there. Higgins is a strong sprinter and will need the points earned Friday once the format changes to longer, more traditional racing styles today and Sunday. Officials will crown an overall champion Sunday using Omnium scoring over the three different races. The street sprints provide the fewest amount of points of the three races. "I think this was a first for all of us," she said. "It`s festive. It`s huger for me because sprinting is my strength. To maximize my points in this was really important."
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Sacramento GP - Amgen Tour of California
Image: Larry Rosa
1st Coryn Rivera
4th Lauren Tamayo
Olivia Dillon
Cari Higgins
Ruth Winder
Photo: Alden Tanaka
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Lauren Tamayo rides a World Record Team Pursuit
Lauren Tamayo (L) rode to a GOLD medal at Pan American Championships along with USA riders Sarah Hammer and Dotsie Bausch. Congratulations!
Sunday, May 09, 2010
What a Differnce a Year Makes - Alisha Welsh Cyclingnews Blog
A year ago, the Tour of the Gila was my first women's pro race. I didn't know a single rider as I pulled up to the start line in my parents' old red minivan. I stuffed extra bottles in my back pockets and crossed my fingers that I would make it through five days of the most challenging racing in the US. It was the first time that I saw girls in matching team kits pile out of cars completely covered in sponsor decals adorned with a half dozen bikes on the roof.
That year I watched as Kristin Armstrong ride to a dominating victory at the SRAM Tour of the Gila. This time, she returned to the race to direct the newly formed Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 Team. Stepping out of the team car painted with the peanut butter "monkey" on the hood and adorned with shiny new Fuji bikes built up with SRAM and tricked out with Edge wheels rolling on gold hubs, it felt a bit surreal to be standing alongside girls who have won major national and international events. These girls are stars, yet they set aside their personal ambitions and egos to ride for the team. Keeping the leader's jersey for five stages against the best teams in the US requires nothing less. I feel lucky to be a part of a squad that is focused not only on delivering wins but also developing riders. Thus far, the team has had great success in doing both.
In stage 1, the team rode together at the front to bring back a six minute break away. It was my job to lead Mara onto the final climb of the day and as the field shattered, she jumped off the front to capture the win by a significant margin. However, it was stage 2 where the team really had to pull together to keep Mara in the lead. I have ridden on windy days, but I have never been in a race with 80 mph wind gusts, big men walking their bikes, and chunks of roofing flying off nearby buildings. Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 drove it through this wind to gain back time on a dangerous break. By the end the team was shedding riders and I came off the back about 10 miles from the finish when a big gust of wind coming over a mountain pass literally spun me around 180 degrees on the road. However, at the finish Mara balanced carefully atop the remnants of the podium display overlooking the tipped over porta potties and put on the red jersey.
FULL STORY HERE
Pan American Championships Road Race - GOLD
GOLD Shelley Evans
Lauren Tamayo
A huge team effort puts Shelley in GOLD today.
Congratulations!
Thursday, May 06, 2010
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