Schneider in Holland, Prinner in El Salvador, Ann Arbor

Photo: Team TIBCO

HOLLAND: Slocteren - Energiewacht Tour -RESULTS - Team TIBCOs assault on the the 5 stage Energiewact Tour is over and quite successful with Wisconsin's very own Sam Schneider coming in with a solid 55th overall, the team placing 7th out of 23, and congratulations in getting Megan Guanier into the top 15 on two stages, 4th on the final stage, and 21st overall. 



Energiewachttour 2012
General Classification, Final Ranking
1 Teutenberg, Ina Yoko 13 Specialized - Lululemon 11:24:45
2 van Dijk, Ellen 14 Specialized - Lululemon 11:24:52 0:07
3 Vos, Marianne 7 Rabobank 11:25:28 0:43
4 Worrack, Trixi 17 Specialized - Lululemon 11:25:35 0:50
5 Gunnewijk, Loes 26 Greenedge - AIS 11:25:55 1:10
...
21 Guarnier, Megan 49 Tibco to the Top 11:41:06 16:21
33 Millar, Amanda 50 Tibco to the Top 11:43:48 19:03
55 Schneider, Samantha 51 Tibco to the Top 11:48:53 24:08
66 Hall, Lauren 54 Tibco to the Top 11:50:19 25:34.
105 Wheeler, Jennifer 53 Tibco to the Top 12:02:23 37:38
106 Purcell, Jennifer 52 Tibco to the Top 12:03:57 39:12

EL SALVADOR: San Salvador - Vuelta Ciclista El Salvador - Elgin, Illinois' Jessica Prinner writes in her blog about her travels last week with the USA National Team. It's a great read, check it out:

"After a month and a half of suffering from mononucleosis, I finally got back on the bike in time to get my invite to race in El Salvador for the National team, having a pitiful amount of base miles logged and no intensity as of then. So my coach and I dreamt up a massively masochistic training schedule to tear my legs off and sew them back on just in time to hop on a plane and head into the Southern Hemisphere.

Looking back I give myself credit for not packing any cold weather gear and going through all the trouble to find a compact crank set, because as it turned out all the racing we would be doing would be in ridiculously hot and humid weather on mountainous courses. Not only that, but the race schedule included a five day UCI stage race sandwiched between two UCI one day races without any rest days. For those of you who don’t like long sentences that’s seven days of racing in a row.

We got three days to attempt to acclimate to the insanely hot weather as we stayed in a small complex owned by the promoter just a stone throw from the beach. If you ignored the fact that the bathroom had four adjoining doors to it the place seemed like paradise; a large shaded outdoor patio hung with hammocks beside a pool that looked over the pacific ocean. I was almost fooled into thinking we were on vacation until the first 1.1 UCI race arrived and I realized I was in for a long, sweaty week."

MICHIGAN: Ann Arbor - Kevin Lillard has a set of great photos from last week's collegiate race in Ann Arbor. PHOTOS

Tomorrow, we'll try to track down Ashley James in the Classica Citta di Padova, and U23 Lawrence Warbasse of Traverse City, MI in the Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux in Belgium.