What is the Boulder Roubaix
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The Boulder Roubaix is a road race that takes place in the northern part of Boulder Colorado rolling over a mixture of pavement and gravel roads to nearly the distance of 69 miles. Named after the Paris Roubaix or sometimes referred to as The Hell of the North. The race is usually raced in the spring time, much like the Paris Roubaix testing the riders ability to handle the endurance and sometimes weather. The gravel sections of the course really give the race its unique character that nearly no other race can compare to. Many big names have raced and won this event like Danny Pate, Will Frishorn, Scott Moninger, Chris Baldwin, etc.
History
The Boulder Roubaix was started in 1992 by Chris Grealish on very much the same course it runs today. After 92 it moved to the Boulder Rez for awhile before it died but was later picked back up Chris by Clark Sheehan as part of the Boulder Stage Race. Please correct if wrong but the 2008 race will be the 13th time it has taken place.
Courses, past and present
There have been many variations of the Boulder Roubaix course, the most typical one is the same course as the 2008 Boulder Roubaix Course. There has also been one that runs through the Boulder Rez facility and in 2010 DBCEvents is introducing a longer course
Past Winners
Men's Winners
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Women's Winners
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 Photo Credit Bikeabout.net |
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 Photo Credit Bikeabout.net |
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Thanks to all
I will update this page with all of your information provided. I also need to add the 08 winners to the list as well.
Boulder Roubaix '99 from Ch. 2 News...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7me0keTwdl8
Some more Boulder-Roubaix history
http://bit.ly/5E0tMz - Some interesting names involved.
Boulder-Roubaix origins
As much as I value CG's contributions, I don't think it's correct to say that he started Boulder-Roubaix. Boulder Velo was running unsanctioned events by that name on the the north Boulder dirt roads back in the 80's.
Niwot-Roubaix
Nice that someone remembers! While The Boulder Velo Club DID run unsanctioned "team" races out there prior to Chris (We called it "Niwot Roubaix"...), he deserves ALL the credit for doing a RACE on those roads. Pretty big difference from 20 teammates riding around, to putting on a real race.