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Colorado Collegiate Teams win top ranking!

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Mesa College and Fort Lewis won DII and DI ranking.

Full story from USA Cycling

This, the fourth and final USA Cycling Collegiate National Championship completed the 2009-10 collegiate cycling season and secured Fort Lewis College’s place atop the national collegiate team Division I rankings and Mesa State College’s spot ahead of all other Division II schools. Both of those teams finished in the top five of their respective divisions at Road Nationals to seal the overall season victory.

Front Range 50 Video & More

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Photo Credit: Sinjin Eberle

Great turn out this weekend at the Front Range 50 which is part of a series of endurance mountain bike races in Colorado. The series consists of the following races

Results from Front Range 50

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ACA Women's Mentoring Program - Wheels of Thunder

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Race Results

The first race for the ACA's women mentoring program took place today. Wheels of Thunder was held near the Broncos training facility in South Denver. The wind was fierce which made for a tough day of racing in any category. You can see it on the faces of these racers. After reviewing previous results for Cat 4 Women's fields, we thought there would be around 15 starters but there were 34 racers towing the line today.

Both Renee Eastman and Beth Fisk monitored the field during the race, giving instruction and encouragement. After the race, both Renee and Beth answered questions and discussed the race with the riders. The racers that 303Cycling spoke to based their decision to race mainly on Wheels of Thunder being designated as an ACA Mentoring Program race. For at least two women, it was their first criterium.

Here are the pictures that I took of the Cat 4 Women.


2010 - CU Cycling Short Track Series

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Are you ready for some short track!!!

CU CYCLING SHORT TRACK SERIES

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

The series is 3 weeks away!

It's that time of the season once again: the trails are drying out, the weather's warming up. Get out your mountain bike and lets BBQ! The series is running from May 19 to August 11, every Wednesday evening. See you again soon!

Chris Grealish and CrossVegas Part Ways--Focus Now on Nationals for Boulder

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This just in!! Possible CX Nationals in Boulder Colorado!!!

Chris Grealish and CrossVegas Part Ways--Focus Now on Nationals for Boulder

Chris Grealish, founder of the CrossVegas cycling event, leaves that organization to focus on securing national ‘cross championships for Boulder, Colorado, in 2012.

Boulder, Colorado, April 6, 2010 -- Cyclo-cross fanatic and cycling event promoter, Chris Grealish, will no longer be affiliated with the CrossVegas event. Grealish built the race into one of the mainstays on the national scene, scheduling the event to coincide with the fall trade show, Interbike. National and world champions attended the event during Grealish’s tenure.

Sandstone Ranch Criterium - Report

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The new criterium on the block did not disappoint. It was important not to let the rectangular course fool you. Not only did the wind on the North side make things interesting, but the medians between turns 2 and 3 and again between 3 and 4 kept racers on their game. DBCEvents put on a great race and we hope to see this venue return in the future.

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Masters clean up at Lookout Mountain

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Nico leads Kevin up Lookout Mountain
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Vampire Riders Nico Toutenhoofd and Kevin Nicol, both racing for Hotel San Jose-Mellow Johnny's, and are both over 40, took 1 and 2 in the Lookout Mountain Hill Climb. All of the top 9 places were over 30 except for Robin Eckmann coming in at 18.

In the women's field the story was pretty much the same story with the top 2 over 40 and 4th place eclipsing those with 53 years of age.

ACA Lookout Mountain Results


While it is no doubt impressive what these athletes can accomplish at their age it's also interesting to wonder, where's the youth? Does hill climbing take that much experience? Has road cycling lost it's attraction to our youth or is our region so well stacked with amazing masters that youth who could compete against them are already on pro teams and racing around the country and world? I am voting for the later.... these guys can't easily pack there bags and leave their families to go race the Gila like so many other young Boulder stars are now.

Front Range MTB Series Cancelled on 5/2

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From the ACA:

Front Range MTB Series Cancelled on 5/2

Fri, 2010-04-30
Due to the recent and forecast inclement weather as well as an already saturated course, the Front Range MTB series has been cancelled for 5/2 in an effort to preserve the venue from environmental damage.

From the race promoter:

Bad news, we have to cancel tomorrow's FRMTB Series race at the Louisville Rec Center on account of soggy turf. I went out there yesterday to give it a look, stomping around in all the key sections of the course, and it just would not hold up to the abuse from a day of racing. Even with the sunshine we're having this morning, the dirt there (and it truly is dirt-dirt, and not the sandy dirt we're used to) just won't shed the water as fast as we'd need it to. Part of the issue is that the course was slatted to use all new trails which we were going to mow today, leaving a very short and fast grass for the race - but with soft mud/dirt underneath, the pressure of 200 riders lapping on that cut grass would just tear the grass+roots right out of the ground. And Louisville made it very clear they don't want us burning in new permanent trails (which we'd essentially do if racing on mud).

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