Our own Niels

Congrats to Ryan"I am soooo fast I am blury" Cooper on a huge win in Woodstock yesterday. It came down to a sprint finish, wow that dude is fast!!

After week 6

Wagner and I pull into the parking lot of the 6th Chicago Cyclocross Cup race to see the body's of those pre-riding the course covered in mud, a lot of mud. Rewind 24 hours, I was sitting in a Starbucks talking about "mud tires" with a few fellow cross racers when I made the proclamation "we will not have a mud race in Chicago, don't even worry about it." Was I wrong.

After the first hill Wagner came around me(on a single speed) poked my leg and took off. I did not see him until after the finish. He took 10Th, I could only get 22ND.

In the 50+ Gary Whalen took 9th, George got 12th.
In the 40+ Mike Grimm got 23rd
Cat 3 Ted "I am BACK" Burger got 12th place and finished with no front brake!!
John Kurtz took lucky 13th

We are still 4th overall in the Team standings.

Up next, Northbrook

After week 4

(pic used w/o permission, what the hell is he smiling about?)

Our team is kicking ass in the Chicago cross cup, overall standings are;
Men cat 3; Ryan "my shoe fell off" Cooper, 1st overall
John Kurts 6th
Ted Burger 18th
Women 123 Leah Sanda 9th
Men 30+ Dave Pilotto 11th
Jason "44x17 for cross" Wagner 19th
Jason Meshburg 21st
Men 50+ George Lambros 10th
Gary Whalen 13th

Also big up to Ted "Gordon Lightfoot" Burger for a 7th place at this past weekends UCI cross race in Toronto, even after getting cross-checked by a hockey-stick wielding canuck!!




We need the team to help with our Northbrook cross race November 8th. Contact me or Jason Meshburg. The race will be EPIC!!

Cyclocross is fun

Video used without permission

After 2 Chicago Cyclocross Cup races we have 3 men in the top 10 overall in Cat 3, Ryan Cooper, John Kurtz and Ted Burger.

Leah Sanda is 3rd overall in the Women's 123.

As some of up struggle to find out race-legs(me) we can rest assured that there is 2 months of races left.

This Sunday brings us to Dan Ryan woods. The course is new for CCC and I am told will feature 2 large hills.

Palos Meltdown 8-30-09

The Meltdown is a race that the Chicagoland dirt community views as its world championships. It is on trails everyone knows and uses on a regular basis, but somehow felt strange to me, was it the 249 people chasing me? Was it the 60degree temps in August?

This may have been the race with the most team members entered, sport class;
Mike Carney 10th overall 4th in age group
Mike Grimm 20th overall 2nd age group
Joe Maxwell (akascott fortman) 23rd overall
Bill Older 85th overall 11th agegroup
Peter Tirone 98th
Rom Tomondong 159th
Greg Molnar 188th
David Pilotto 202th

Expert;
We had the oldest and youngest racers in expert
Gary Whalen 42nd
Rhys Louis 75th (see pic above)

Big thanks to Mike Grimm and Rom for setting up base camp, and all the friends that came out to cheer us on!

Good luck

Good luck to everyone racing the Chicago Triathalon,and everyone racing the Palos Meltdown on Sunday.

Both events should be a challenge and equaly exciting to race or spectate.

With about 6" of rain the past few days and 48 hours to the start The Meltdown should be a muddy good time.

Dave Jagee Wins Downers

It is great to see Flatlandia kicking ass all season long. This weekend was no exception. Dave pulled a great sprint to win the Masters race on Saturday.
Thanks for putting the team on the podium again!!

thanks to Loch for the pic