Had the biggest CX sign-up yet – over 35 kids. A combination of true cross riders, road, and MTB riders.
Ann Trombley, head coach (center), along with asst coach Greg Keller (mudandcowbells.com). It should be a fun season.
Source: roadbikereview.com
American Coryn Rivera took the win at the UCI 2.2 Tour du Limousin Féminin today when she outsprinted her breakmates at the end of the 120 km stage 1. Sofie de Vuyst (Lotto Honda) was second and defending champion Grete Treire (S.C. Michela Fanini Rox), third.
“It was good. I was in the front and then I crashed and I had to get back on. It took me a while for me to get it together.” Rivera told france 3. “There were last minute flyers in the breakaway and I just kept riding and riding. On the last corner, I jumped them, sprinted to the line and won.”
This makes the first European victory for the 18-year old who has won 32 US National Championships in her career, so far, including the USA U23 National Criterium Championships last month.
Rivera has a four-second lead on de Vuyst going into tomorrow’s time trial. She also leads the Best Young Rider classification.
The peloton stayed together for the first four laps of 20km after enduring a slew of flat tires on the wet roads on the first lap. The first real attack, after 80 kilometers once the roads dried under the sun following a rainy morning, included many of the pre-race favorites such as 2009 overall winner Grace Verbeke (Belgium National Title), winner of two stages at the Tour de Bretagne, Rhae-Christie Shaw(Canada National Team) and winner of the overall at the Tour de Bretagne, Alexandra Buchenkova(Russia National Team). Also making the split were Flavia Oliviera (Vaiano Solaristech), Petra Djkman (Dolmans Landscaping Team), Treire, de Vuyst and Rivera who bridged up.
The eight worked together to push the gap up to two minutes but the cooperation stopped on the final lap. Attacks flew but nothing stuck and the sprint was for the stage win.
Verbeke leads the QOM classification and Martine Bras (Dolmans Landscaping Team) leads Sprint after one stage.
Racing continues tomorrow with the out-and-back 15-km time trial which includes two 180-turns close to the finish line. Saturday brings a four-lap, 126.3 km rolling stage followed by the hilly final 102.6 km stage.
Source: podiuminsight.com
Like many others before Loader got on a bike at an early age. “Probably six or seven years old with BMX, raced it all the way up to teenage years, BMX to mountain bike to cyclocross to road.”
But that’s where the similarities stop. At age 17, Loader sold everything to go to France on his own.
“When I was 17, my biggest dream was to be a pro cyclist, school was up and down. I really trying to make it, try to do school, try to work, try to do everything and finally I decided to go all out, sold my car, sold everything and ended up over in Europe. Basically with a suitcase, did my first race there in Nice, France, a circuit race and I won that.” Loader explained.
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Students try to find work and transport for people on Skid Row.
Four area high schools — La Cañada High, Crescenta Valley High, South Pasadena and Hoover High — are collecting bicycles over the summer to donate to homeless men and women living on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles.
Teens of the student-run LOOK International group plan to collect at least 100 bicycles. Peter Lee, the 17-year old president of the organization, incoming senior and founder of LOOK International, said it’s an “empowerment project.”
The idea of donating bicycles to homeless men and women came after several group visits to Skid Row, where the teens spoke with people who said they landed there because they lost their jobs and homes. The first time Lee visited Skid Row he spoke with a homeless man who told him about how he got where he was and how it made him feel.
“He told me, and this still sticks with me today, ‘If a man cannot provide for himself he is no man at all,’” said Lee, who hopes the bikes will allow people to better provide for themselves.
Students will work with Los Angeles regional homeless services organizations to find needy men and women to determine who will receive the bikes. From there, members of LOOK International will approach businesses near Skid Row to hopefully find jobs for the 100 bike recipients.
“This would influence them significantly,” said Emily Schin, a 16-year old incoming junior and co-president of LOOK International at La Cañada High. “Instead of donating food, this gives them a way to transport themselves and it can make their lives a little bit easier.”
LOOK International is asking the communities of La Cañada, Glendale, South Pasadena and Crescenta Valley to help by donating bicycles. The group of 30 students plans to distribute the bicycles to transients in a ceremony at Gladys Park near Skid Row on Aug. 14.
Every two weeks, members of LOOK International visit Skid Row on a Sunday morning to distribute food and visit with the people living there. The group already has distributed more than 200 bags of food to Skid Row transients.
When Joseph Song, a 16-year old incoming junior and co-president of LOOK International at LCHS, first visited Skid Row he felt like he was making a difference.
“I felt really bad for those people, but it made me feel good I was actually doing something instead of just watching something or reading something in the headlines about how many people are living in poverty,” Song said.
Lee formed LOOK International last year after a fellow Crescenta Valley High School student’s father was killed in a hit-and-run collision in Montrose. He and group members raised $10,000 for the student’s family.
“This is the second project we’re trying to accomplish on a bigger scale, on a county level,” Lee said.
Collections began July 1 and go to Aug. 3. Each high school LOOK International chapter is looking to collect 25 bikes but Lee wouldn’t mind La Cañada exceeding expectations.
“We are hoping La Cañada is the most supportive,” Lee said. “Whatever help they could give us to help make a change would be great.”
To donate bicycles or cycling equipment in La Cañada, contact Joseph Song at (818) 590-5634 or josephmsong@gmail.com. To donate in the Crescenta Valley, call Peter Lee at (818) 808-9905 or 1994leepeter@gmail.com.
Source: lacanadaonline.com
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More than 1,000 riders, spanning the ages of 10 to over 40 will take to the streets for the USA Cycling Juniors, Under-23, Elite and Paralympic Road National Championships in Augusta for the first time beginning on Wed., June 22 and continue until Sun., June 26.
The 1,000 riders slated to compete for national titles over the five days represents the largest number ever registered for the event. This record-breaking attendance will be highlighted by a star-studded women’s elite field. Competitors range from Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong (Boise, Idaho/Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12) and time trial world champion and current USA Cycling National Racing Calendar leader Amber Neben (Irvine, Calif./HTC-Highroad Women) to the nation’s top 10-12 year olds. Among the athletes joining them will be the reigning American Cyclist of the Year Mara Abbott (Boulder, Colo./Diadora Pasta Zara), Evelyn Stevens (Dennis Mass./HTC Highroad Women) and Shelley Olds (Gilroy, Calif./Diadora Pasta Zara) who won the USA Cycling Criterium National Championship in 2010.
The men’s U23 men’s field features several of America’s brightest young stars including USA Cycling National Development Program rider Lawson Craddock (Houston, Texas/Trek-Livestrong), who won all three races in the Junior 17-18 division, last year in this event. Competing with Craddock will be Jacob Rathe (Portland, Ore./Chipotle Development Team) who recently placed third at the 2011 Paris-Roubaix Espoirs, Rob Squire (Sandy, Utah/Chipotle Development Team), a recent crossover to road racing who had a strong road season with USA Cycling’s Development Program; and Lawrence Warbasse (Traverse City, Mich./BMC Racing), who placed seventh in the 2011 Istrian Spring Trophy.
Not to be outdone, the women’s U23 field features the most decorated rider in USA Cycling national championship history, Coryn Rivera (Tustin, Calif./Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12), who has collected 32 Stars-and-Stripes jerseys since 2006. Competing with Rivera will be Alison Starnes (Mill Valley, Calif./Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12), who won the time trial at the 2010 Nature Valley Grand Prix.
The winner of the men’s Division II road race at the 2011 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships, Andrew Baker (Easley, S.C./Bissell Pro Cycling Team) highlights the local competitors. Joining him in the U23 field will be Oscar Clark (Atlanta, Ga./Realcyclist.com), who finished 13th in the road race and the individual time trial at the 2011 USA Cycling Professional Road and Time Trial National Championships, Mathew Lipscomb (Decatur, Ga./Hincapie Development Team), who recently won the King of the Mountains Jersey at the Tour de Pays du Vaud in Switzerland and Ty Magner (Athens, Ga./Team Type 1 Development), who won the road race and criterium at the 2011 Race for Humanity.
The winners of the elite women’s, U23 men’s and junior 17-18 men’s and women’s road race and time trial contests will receive automatic nominations to the 2011 squad to represent the United States at the UCI Road World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 21-25.
The road races will take place on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at Fort Gordon in western Augusta. The time trial course is set at Lake Strom Thurmond along the border between Georgia and South Carolina northwest of Augusta on Thursday. Friday’s criterium will be in downtown Augusta.
The short road race course, which will be contested on Wednesday by women 10-16 years of age and men 10-14 years of age, is comprised of differing amounts of laps (depending on age group) around a course of nearly 11 kilometers. At the end of each lap, competitors will ascend 125 feet in less than a half of a mile.
The long road race course, which will be contested on Saturday and Sunday by men ages 15-elite and women 17-elite as well as various groups of paracyclists, consists of varying amounts of laps (depending on age group) of a 23.7 kilometer loop. The course features two climbs within the first eight kilometers of each lap. The second – steeper – of those two climbs gains 194 feet in less than one mile.
The time trial course, which will be used on Thursday by all competitors, stretches as long as 30 kilometers and narrowly crosses the state border into South Carolina. The course features an overall elevation of 561 feet, gaining 205 feet from the start to the midway point. The course is shortened to 10 kilometers for men and women ages 10-14. The elite and U23 men and women as well as the Junior men 17-18 years of age will compete on the full 30-kilometer course, while women 15-18, men 15-16 and the paracyclists will race against the clock on 19 kilometers of the course.
The rectangular criterium course in Downtown Augusta will highlight the nation’s top sprinters featurings a varying amount of laps (depending on age group) around a 1.25-kilometer course with a maximum elevation gain of only three feet.
For more information, please click on the event web site and follow the races on Twitter at #roadnats.
Source: usacycling.org
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Hart District Composite SoCal mountain bike team races in Temecula, CA in March, 2011, the first race of the season.
