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This Saturday is the Wilderness 101 mountain bike race. It is part of the National Ultra Endurance (NUE) Race Series. The course (map) is a single 101 mile loop that travels through Bald Eagle and Rothrock Pennsylvania State Forests and includes about 15,000 ft of climbing. Last year the winning geared time (Jeff [...]

Local cycling coach Chris Mayhew (JBV Coaching) is helping organize a cyclocross clinic on Saturday August 28th, 2010 in collaboration with Fulcrum Coaching and featuring cyclocross PRO Jeremy Powers.  There are already a few from Pittsburgh signed up. Below is the press release:
Fulcrum Coaching and JBV Coaching Present The 2010 Cyclocross Clinic Featuring Jeremy [...]

Sinead Miller is the new US women’s under-23 road race champion. She finished 6th in the women’s elite national championship road race today in Bend, Oregon, the highest among all other U23 riders (full results). Her teammate, Mara Abbott, on the Peanut Butter & Co Twenty12 professional women’s cycling team won the race. [...]

I went into the final day 4th on GC, down by 2 minutes, but still holding the KOH jersey. The yellow jersey was obviously trying to hold it, as well as gain the sprinters jersey and KOM jersey for his team.
Our plan was to hope that they burnt a lot of matches early [...]

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5 down, 1 to go.
Today was a 60 mile road race with 1 KOM. It started and finished in the town of Gallipolis Oh. The course was amazing, the town was totally behind it, and the town had the racers in for dinner afterward. We are all pretty amazed at how well done this race [...]

Sinead Miller, who just turned 20 years old, won the Under-23 Elite National Time Trial Championship today in Bend, Oregon.  Sinead grew up racing in Pittsburgh and is currently racing for the Peanut Butter & Co Twenty12 professional women’s cycling team.  She is a former collegiate criterium national champion and multiple junior national champion.

So I started the day in the yellow jersey, which was awesome. The stage was a “flat” stage, with only 1 KOM. The temperature was 97 degrees when we started, and it felt like riding in a hair dryer. This was the first race I have ever started with four bottles and eight gels.
The [...]

Today was the Queen stage. The single loop, which was a nationals course at some point, is 63 miles with 5 KOM’s.
The race started slow. Literally the exact opposite of yesterday, no attacks, no jumps. I rolled off the front early, just to see what would happen and it went. Two guys bridged [...]

So the Tour of Ohio is on. It is a 6 day stage race consisting of 1 criterium and 5 hilly road races.
Day 1 was the crit.
The turnout was lower than in years past, possibly 50 starters for the event. The crit is in Worthington Ohio, and the town loves it. They shut down [...]