I’m getting dropped. It’s a Saturday morning in the middle of August, and I’m on a training ride with my teammate Christian in Portland’s Forest Park. We are headed up a stupidly steep fire lane and all I can think is: I’m getting dropped. I should be at home sleeping in, or at least eating breakfast and reading a book. But instead I’m out here, heart rate through the roof, sweat dripping on to my Garmin so I can’t even read it, looking for an extra gear I know isn’t there. What am I doing?
Portland, OR — Even though it seems like summer only started a few weeks ago, the cyclo cross season is now rapidly approaching. The Knights of the Crusade have been feverishly working to line up race locations and dates that we think will make for the most kick butt season ever. Our website, www.crosscrusade.com is finally updated and the 2011 race schedule is posted. We will be visiting many of our long standing venues this year and at the same time have made some cool changes. The biggest of these changes is that we will be going to Bend for the Halloween Crusade weekend on Oct. 29/30. The City of Bend is throwing out a huge fuzzy welcome mat for us and is allowing us to race on the same course that was used for the 2009/2010 U.S. National Cyclocross Championships. Cross Crusade presenting sponsor, Deschutes Brewing Co. is throwing a huge party on Saturday the 29th in their warehouse. Which happens to sit just next to the race venue.
Cyclocrossers everywhere revel in reliving the glory of their races in online, home movie style, but videographer Burk Webb has taken it up several notches this year in documenting the Cross Crusade season. His latest release shot at Cross Crusade #7 in the Washington County Fairgrounds in Hillsboro, Oregon, is his finale for the year [...]
Bob’s Red Mill sponsors cyclocross events and racers from coast to coast – and it’s a company from outside the industry. No matter where you race, you’ve likely seen the name and eaten a (free!) cup of Bob’s steel cut oatmeal. Attracting businesses like Bob’s to the sport – and showing that there’s a strong [...]
by Laura Winberry and Josh Liberles Barton, Oregon – A fine mist covered the final event of the 2010 Cross Crusade Series, settling into gravel and river stone, rolling country road and tire-tracked earth. After two years in Oregon, I guess I’m still new to the nuances of mud-types, and I can’t help but make hackneyed [...]
Well, it was a double race weekend, so apparently that means twice as many bad-ass videos. If you didn’t see Burk Webb’s epic recap of Saturday’s race in Astoria, Oregon, go back and check it out. Now he’s back with part two, and for a double feature we have Jeff Standish’s tale of the Drunk [...]
by Josh Liberles and Laura Winberry Hillsboro, Oregon – Wendy Williams and Sean Babcock both survived tough battles in the mud today at the Washington County fairgrounds in Hillsboro, Oregon, for the penultimate round of the Cross Crusade Series. With an approaching evening’s sky reflecting in Hillsboro’s mud- and puddle-streaked course, Brigette Brown (River City [...]
While I’m sure many of you enjoyed epic Halloween cyclocross weekends of your own, the shenanigans in Astoria, Oregon, are well worth a watch. Two videographers did an excellent job of capturing the action to make that possible, and Burk Webb brings you installment #5 of his excellent season series.
Shannon Skerritt (Corsa Concepts) put in two dominating performances to win both Cross Crusade races over the Halloween weekend and claim the overall series lead from Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain Bicycles), who took the weekend off from racing. In the women’s race, Wendy Williams (River City Bicycles) also went back to back, stamping her mark [...]
Not like the Northwest cyclocross scene needs any more exposure, but we can’t help it – there’s great stuff going on up there. Burk Webb has been releasing beautifully-shot weekly capsules of the Oregon race scene, and his latest – from last Sunday’s PIR Cross Crusade in Portland – is the best cyclocross video we’ve [...]
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