Race Report By Mark Sondeen Rich Allen and I were both entered into the Cat 4/5 race. I had bib number 67, thus I was basically placed mid pack as the 120 racers were called up in numerical order. Considering my 10 month old son did not sleep much the prior two nights, I decided my goal would be to finish 67th or better. Rich must have done something right and was in placed into one of the earlier staging groups. The course was quite flat, with one short run up, a sand pi

Race Report By Keith Gauvin I'm sure all of you have experienced this feeling. Your body tells you that you should probably stay home and your mind is everywhere but on the race your headed to. While the NPR podcast of Snap Judgement kept me company on the way up I desperately wanted to turn around as " I Just wasnt into it today" All of a sudden I'm in Fitchburg. Seeing how I did not pre reg for this race I was in the back. I ended up missing my race Saturday due to wor

Race Report By Rich Allen Saturday morning started with the chilliest temperatures to date of the fall season, somewhere around freezing at our 9:00am start. The course was identical to last year’s course with the big climb on the back section of the course, a hecklers and crowd delight! It’s fun to watch people suffer and fight their way up the climb. Many describe the course as very mountain bikie and I would agree. I thought it was a good course overall and was glad to be

Race Reports By Jon Tarbox Team ERRACE has continued the string of outstanding Ct races. They did a great job with everything. I expect this race to grow. The big Verge races have gotten so competitive (and apparently I’ve gotten slower) that I really look forward to the local races. It's always more fun to actually have to think about racing versus just gutting yourself for 35th place. Me and Paul Nyberg had an epic battle today, in the end I outfoxed AND out-sprinted the

Race Report By Keith Gauvin North Hampton stop 3 &4 in Verge cyclocross series. Noho is the oldest uci race on the east coast. This race is great in my opinion for many reasons. One its just about an hours drive for most Expo folk, two the venue is super spectator friendly , three and most importantly you get to stop in North hampton for burritos on the way home. I believe this year marks the 23 rd year the event has been run. As long as I can remember the weather for this

Race Report By Rich Allen CXMeur Recap, Newfoundland, NJ While most of the Expo CX crew headed to Northampton, MA I was forced to head south to New Jersey. Really???, NJ?….After having just purchased a USAC license for the first time since 1987, I missed the preregistration for Northampton. Don’t worry - Newfoundland, NJ is far from Secaucus. It was actually a beautiful area with some really nice topography, cool undulating countryside in a very rural setting, great for road

Race Report by Keith Honda Fire, mud, and geysers! Spa CX is a unique cyclocross experience. With picnic areas, large pavilions, and naturally carbonated, geyser-like mineral springs, Saratoga Spa State Park is a great location for a cx event. This year's race organizers packed in as much fun as possible in the terrain around one pavilion. Spa CX is part of the NYCROSS race series. Having zero NYCROSS series points meant I was lining up on the last row of the combined Mas

Race Report By Nicole Hildebrand Providence has always been a more technical course and this year was no different. There were 3 flyovers, 2 steep on top of hills that forced many to run, and one that was fun to ride on the flats. There were 2 sets of barriers on corners, along with tons of off chamber riding, a bit slick from rain and a few short, steep hills to help tire you out. The course overall is so much fun there are so many twists and turns, mixed with features and h

Race Report By Humberto Raposo OUCH. I did the Cat 2/3 race at 1:30 PM. The weather was absolutely fantastic. You couldn't ask for any better of a day and the event was absolutely top notch. The course was difficult...at least for me. There really wasn't any place to rest so you really had to manage your effort to be able to go the distance. The course is unique in that its very much like a roller coaster ride. I dont know any other course that is like this. It is a

Race Report By Humberto Raposo I had done this race two or three years ago as a Cat 4 and had vowed never to do it again. It had been a wet fall and even though it hadn't rained that day, everything was wet. That year, Ski Ward had let the grass grow tall and hadn't cut it back far enough. The field was plagued with broken chains and damaged derailleurs. I was running Dugast Typhoon tubulars at the time. I recall having a miserable time holding my lines and an almost imp