Cyclocross Magazine was at HPCX and chatted with a few of the finishers in the elite races, and we wanted to share their stories and impressions of the race with you.
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 [...]
Jamesburg, New Jersey — It was a slushy, muddy mess that greeted racers at HPCX today. After getting an unheard of four inches of snow in Central New Jersey,the course completely changed from previous years and the barriers were removed on the grounds that the slush created enough running opportunities for racers. Nikki Thiemann (Team [...]
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.
by Dr. Craig Callan and Champion System MAC staff The Champion System MAC Series moved up the New Jersey Turnpike to the town of Jamesburg for HPCX and the second round of MAC’s UCI New Jersey double-header weekend. 451 riders took the start this year, a 28% increase over last year’s entry. The mens race [...]
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. [...]
November 2, 2009 – Conshohocken, PA, USA: It was a day for confirmed mudders at the MAC Cat and Kitten Cross presented by HPCX in New Jersey on Sunday. Former MAC champion Maureen Bruno-Roy (MM Racing-Seven Cycles) outdistanced two-time Olympian Mary McConneloug (Kenda/Seven Cycles/Stan’s No Tubes) in the Women’s race. Meanwhile, Swiss rider Valentin Scherz [...]
October 28, 2009; Conshohocken, PA, USA: Cyclocross racers at MAC’s two days of UCI and amateur racing in New Jersey this weekend will need to pay closer-than-normal attention to what they’re wearing. Beacon Cyclocross in Bridgeton New Jersey will see racers trying to avoid the Jersey Devil while rushing through the woods on Halloween, while [...]