After racing 13 times in 17 days and all of those races being either hard small-track races or long crits (frequently on crappy pavement) I am left with saddle sores.   (for those not ‘in the know’ saddle sores are sores, irritations, chaffing, and other stuff that develops from time to time from too much time [...]

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The final crit of this year’s Superweek was Sunday evening in Whitefish Bay, WI.  It happened to conflict with a $25k crit in Chicago (yeah, I was wrong in my previous post)  so instead of the usual 80-130 racers we had 48 of us at the start.  Basically the international riders and the local elite [...]

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Saturday was the famous Down Avenue race which has always been the crown jewell of the superweek race series.  This year however it was not quite as big as a new and competing race series (Tour of America’s Dairy Land) also hosted a Downer Ave bike race back in June thus splitting the crowd attendance [...]

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Friday’s race was in Kenosha and was the ever popular “Chase food folks and spokes.”  It’s a cool annual outdoor festival for the city of Kenosha and the race is a 1km (.6 mile) square course around a city park, the library, and YMCA building.  They have tons of food vendors, arts and crafts tents, [...]

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Sunday night: Evanston Crit, 100km (62 miles)
Sunday evening was indeed a fun race with plenty of spectators and a great atmosphere.  I felt pretty good after the two recovery days and raced a pretty good race.  100 or more guys started the race and I spent most of the time in the front third of [...]

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