Recap - Sunday May 30th

Racing continues throughout the region. Too bad there's there's no news coming out of ANY of them!

Case in point: it took until MIDNIGHT to find out who won the Snake Alley Criterium (the number one race for a 1,000 miles around) and that was just from one outlet, Podium Insight. Meanwhile, the inline skating world had live text updates, with photos and video clips (!) being broadcast to Inline Planet from middle of the Wisconsin farmland covering their Elkhart Lake Marathon Race! (it's a great read by the way, and the photos are fantastic! *grin*) As long as we're covering that event, it was 3 time World Champion Jorge Botero, of Columbia who took the bunch sprint today to win that race in Elkhart Lake. He worked together with his teammate, 18 times World Champion Tony Muse to keep the breaks in check throughout. C'mon cycling world - lets get our act together, eh?

Steve Tilford as always, has something interesting to say about the races he does. He covers Snake Alley nicely in his latest piece but also has some sour grapes to share:

I have to say that I’m not too big on this Ukrainian guy coming to cherry pick the races here. Roberto Gaggiolli set it up. I like Roberto. I’ve been getting beat up by him the last 3 decades. But, there has always been too much suspense floating around his name. Then and now. So, when some guy, that doesn’t speak English, that I’ve never heard of, comes and spanks everyone at a regional race that pays $2,000 to win, I have to call foul. Even if there isn’t a foul to be called. I guess that is how it is nowadays. 

Back at Elkhart Lake it was like having the local police department block off your favorite training route for you and your closest training buddies. Except, your local Tuesday night "Hero Ride" would have had more riders. It is what it is though, so you kit up and race who shows. If that gives you the pleasure of being the Sheboygan County World Champion, so be it! Nothing wrong with that! (that picture is deceiving, there were 10 riders in that race, not two).



Opening night at the Northbrook Velodrome
(It wouldn't have been my choice of music, but to each his own)