Take Two!

That was quick, I'm bringing back the Star! There is so much going on in the region and there is no central clearing house for the information, so I'll take another crack at it.

ChicagoBikeRacing.Com has a nice review of the Grays Lake, IL criterium held this past weekend. However, here's the rest of the story: In the morning of the race, the WI State Time Trial Championchips was held just a short drive north across the state line. That was won by IS Corp's Kyle Jacobsen (40k in 52:27 for an average of 28.43mph RESULTS). After being crowned WI State TT Champ for 2010, he drove down to Grays Lake to race where he hooked up with Tristan Schouten (Planet Bike) and the pair dangled precariously off the front of the Pro 1/2 field for most of the race to finish 1 - 2 (RESULTS). The next day, Schouten arrouse early and drove north to compete in the WORS MTB race, known as The Border Battle way up in River Falls, WI where he rode away from that field to win by almost a minute! (RESULTS)

Major props to Tristan Schouten for taking second at Grays Lake and following it up with a win at WORS, and also to "King" Kyle Jacobsen for first winning the Wisconsin State TT Championship on Saturday morning and following it up in the afternoon with a win in Grays Lake!

On other fronts, Cole House (BMC) is racing in France's Tour de L'Ain for his European Professional debut where he finished 70th out of 106 in the opening prologue in support of more experienced BMC team mates. Then there's Radio Shack's Matt Busche, in his first year as a Euro Pro, who just took 3rd in the Tour of Denmark ! Nice write up of that at Velonation. PROPS!

But wait, there's more! Team USA made a strong presence in the Junior World's Road race putting Coryn Rivera on the podium with the help of Illinois' Jessica Prinner and Wisonsin's Kaitlyn Antonneau (RESULTS). If you watch closely in this video, you can see Team USA closely marking moves of Russian and French riders in this year's championship race. PROPS!