July 24, 2008
New race coming Saturday, August 9th! Located between Niwot and Longmont in the neighborhood of Prospect!
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Course Description: Half mile, L shaped course with safe corners located downtown Prospect.
Race Info & Rules: Wheel Support will be wheel in wheel out. Bring your own wheels. Free lap rule applies. Race will run in all conditions unless unsafe for participants.
Prize List: $10,000 in Cash and Merchandise. Tentative contributors include: Zeal Optics, Giro, Vic’s Espresso, The Tusk African Bar and Lounge, Jianiken Sushi, Pro Peloton, Rio Grande Mexican Restaurants, CW-X Conditioning Wear, Whitey’s Crash and Burn Kit, Fiori Flowers and more.
Results: posted on www.americancycling.org Prizes will be distributed near start/finish area. 45 min after race completion and result final.
Registration: ACA license required – must be presented at registration. One day licenses are $10. $30 entry fee, juniors race free in junior categories, $10 for each additional race.
Registration: Mail a completed ACA entry blank (for each race entered) and check to “Rio Grande Cycling” - 3070 17th St., Boulder, CO 80304. $5 late fee for race-day reg. and entries postmarked after August 4th.
Race-day Registration opens at 6:00am and closes 30 min prior to each category start. Pre-registered racers must check in 30 min prior to start.
Parking: Available off of Kristy Ct behind Vic’s Espresso and off Neon Forest Cir directly behind the Tusk Lounge. Both visible from hwy 287
Directions: Denver: Hwy 25 North. Left on CO-52 (Exit 235). Right onto US-287. Left onto Tenacity Dr. Follow signs to parking one block. Fort Collins: Hwy 25 South. Right onto CO-119 W (Exit 240). Left onto S Main ST/ US-287. Right onto Tenacity Dr. Follow signs to parking one block. Boulder: CO-119 N/ Diagonal Hwy into Longmont. Right onto S Hover St/ 95th St. Left onto Pike Rd. Right onto Kristy Ct and follow signs to parking.
July 22, 2008
Not much to say here - wicked tan line. Thanks to Sue Carroll for the photo and hosting us up in Bend, OR at Cascade!
We’re at a hotel in Boise - halfway through our drive home from Vancouver. There will be some better updates coming…
July 16, 2008
Thanks to Courtney Saario, Brad officially has a new girlfriend. Neither of them are aware of it yet - but they are dating - for real. How do I know? About 1,215 texts and two phone calls following one night consisting of a convertible ride, bonfire with marshmellows and s’mores, hot tubbing and more. That’s how. He’s actually talking to her on the phone right now, on the north side of the Gastown criterium course up in Vancouver. He couldn’t talk to her on the cell next to us because he’d be ridiculed. Obviously.
In other news, Team Rio Grande mostly survived the Cascade Cycling Classic. Casualties consisted of Logan Garey breaking a bone in his shoulder, Taylor Kneuven crashing out of the criterium and unfortunately taking a friend of ours down with him, and Joe Saperstein retiring from the sport of cycling. On the flip side, Taylor Shelden had a great ride - finishing 25th overall as 2nd amateur, Dan Porter had a rough first day but rode consistently thereon out, and I was in the break in 2 of the 6 stages. Brad finished 10th overall in the 2’s race and is getting very close to having the required upgrade points to move up into the cat 1 field. Below are some photos I grabbed from Velonews - who took shots while I was on the front vs. Cyclingnews, which seemed to prefer the shots where I was barely visible, haha.
Riding in the break, stage 2
July 1, 2008
The team had a great time up in Laramie last weekend at the Dead Dog Classic. Not only did we win the Crit., the TT, 4 primes and put 2 riders in the top 7 of all 3 stages (4 in the top 7 of the crit) and the GC. We also had awesome host housing, great weather, raced well as a team and made a little bit of money. Ok so we didn’t really have the watts to compete for the GC but I would still consider the weekend to be a great success.
Pepsi Road Race
Taylor Shelden 5th
Dan Porter 6th
Taylor Kneuven 16th
Brad Bingham 21st
Kotby Subaru Historic Downtown Criterium
Logan Garey 1st
Dan Porter 3rd
Allen Krughoff 6th
Taylor Shelden 7th
4 out of the 5 primes offered
Trihydro Hight Altitude Time Trial
Taylor Shelden 1st
Dan Porter 6th
Brad Bingham 11th
Taylor Kneuven 13th
Allen Krughoff 14th
Final GC
Taylor Shelden 5th
Dan Porter 7th
Taylor Kneuven 13th
Brad Bingham 20st
Next week some of us will be heading out to Bend OR for the Cascade Classic and some of us will be racing here locally. Keep an eye out for updates.
