PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND – Conditions at the Providence Cyclocross Festival changed rapidly from fairly dry course conditions early in the day to a slick course with greasy, muddy corners as a partly cloudy sky gave way to a steady rain as the Elite racers inspected the course. It seems that Helen Wyman’s (Kona) and Ben [...]
by Keith Hower Mary McConneloug took Laura Van Gilder in a sprint for the line, after the duo jockeyed with Sally Annis for the better part of the race. McConneloug and Van Gilder were able to distance Annis towards the end, leading to a two-up battle on the uphill road section to the finish. Benefiting from [...]
BERKELEY, CA – Bay Area cyclists are in for a special treat this weekend with two days of fundraising festivities at the upcoming 2010 NorCal CycleFest, regarded by many as the Bay Area’s cycling social event of the season, November 6-7th in Mill Valley. Mary McConneloug will be the guest host for this year’s event. On Saturday evening, [...]
BERKELEY, CA – Cycling aficionados are invited to the eighth annual NorCal CycleFest, the Bay Area’s cycling social event of the season. Held November 6-7 at the Mill Valley Community Center, this year features two-time Olympian and national champion, and Fairfax native Mary McConneloug as the special guest. This two-day gathering is the main annual [...]
CrossVegas returned to the thick, power-sucking grass of the Desert Breeze Soccer Complex for one final, UCI-point-laden party. At the end of the night, two diminutive Europeans – Katerina Nash (Luna) and Francis Mourey (Francaise Des Jeux) – stood atop the stacked fields to take their first victories at the nighttime race. Miss the play-by-play [...]
by Jamie Mack While most of us are focused on the impending season, with some of us already realizing what the off-season has done to us, non-’cross events have been shifted out of our collective focus. But for many of the stars that we follow, including some of the top Americans, there is one more [...]
Katie Compton didn’t let a wasp sting on the third lap of the cross country race at the World Cup in Val di Sole, Italy, slow her down as the newly-crowned US national short track champion and reigning cyclocross champ rode to an impressive fourth place in the event. Compton finished just 20 seconds off [...]
Champery, Switzerland, was the site of the fourth round of the MTB World Cup series this past weekend, playing host to some of our favorite ’crossers. The spoils of the XC race went to the pure mountain bikers, with American Todd Wells taking top cyclocross honors with his twelfth place finish, an impressive four places [...]
’Crossers continue to give us something to report on at the US Mountain Bike National Championships in Granby, CO. Katie Compton, who took fifth in Saturday’s XC race behind Mary McConneloug and winner Georgia Gould, left everyone behind to power into her second short track national title. Gould finished a fantastic weekend by finishing second, [...]
US Pro cyclocrosser Mary McConneloug (Kenda – Seven Cycles) took the win yesterday at the Merida Bike Vysocina S1 race in Nové Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic. The cross country race, which also served as an event in the Czech National Mountain Biking Cup, saw McConneloug blast ahead of the competition on the 4.1km-lap course, taking [...]
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