by Anne Rock Nikki Thiemann felt so good winning her first UCI race at Saturday’s Beacon Cross, she went out and did it again on Sunday at HPCX. Bizarre weather plagued both races where conditions changed hourly. At Beacon, wind and rain whipped racers, and turned a usually fast, dry course into a sloppy, peanut [...]
by Molly Hurford Beacon cyclocross brought wind, sleet, ice and rain for racers throughout the day, making the typically dry and fast course into a muddy mess for racers, who already struggled with the course features including the ampitheater of pain. In the women’s race, Nikki Thiemann just beat Laura Van Gilder in a sprint [...]
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — It’s fitting that the infamous Jersey double header of Beacon and HPCX usually fall on Halloween weekend because both courses leave riders feeling like the pedaling dead. Beacon For the eleventh year, promoter Wade Hess and the crew of Cape Atlantic Cycling have fashioned a course so frightening that even the legendary [...]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — Hup, hup and away! Shortly after the board and promoters of the Mid-Atlantic Cyclocross Series (The MAC) announced the 2011 schedule, over 1,100 entrants registered for the first two events. With only 30 days until the opening race and some categories close to capacity, the series is poised for great success.
The Champion System MAC invaded southern New Jersey this weekend, and it brought out the Storm Troopers. After bouncing around the schedule for the first half of its long life, the Beacon Cyclocross has, in recent years, developed a tradition of pairing with HPCX in central New Jersey for a UCI-sanctioned double-header on Halloween weekend. [...]
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