The following is Tim Mitchell’s account of the Criterium de Bethel:
Waking up on Sunday morning I was disappointed because I knew that the rain I
saw outside my window meant the weekly Wells Ave training series would be
canceled. On the internet that morning though, was a ray of sunshine; I saw on
the race calendar there was a criterium in Bethel, CT, a bit of a haul to get
there from Boston, but I was anxious for some harder efforts after months of
base work. So I hopped in the car and arrived in Bethel, CT, with just enough
time to register, get kitted-up and roll over to the start. It was rainy and
45 degrees… but I was stoked to be on the start line for the first time this
season! (more…)
The forecast looked promising all weeklong for the Albany, New York, region. Partly cloudy with highs near 60F for Saturday, March 28th. This was too good to be true given that only eight days prior the Vernal Equinox arrived, up to its usual trickery announcing spring with a dismal, soppy wet and cold day. MetLife Cycling’s two resident Vermonters, Andrew Gardner and Charles McCarthy, along with Hot Tubes wunderkid Anders Newbury, made the three hour trip down Interstate 87 to the first in a three race series, the Johnny Cake training race. While it is steadily growing in popularity, as apparent by the sold out fields and a couple of racers looking as fit as if it were the first day of the Tour de France-albeit a little pastier- the fantastic weather didn’t hurt things. (more…)
Giddy-up.
As jack frost loosens his ice grip on New England, a few things are most certainly around the corner. For throngs of bike racers across the region, one of the most eagerly awaited among these – perhaps more so than DST or even the spring classics – is the Northeast’s own perennial spring monument, the Tour of the Battenkill, formerly known as Battenkill-Roubaix. (more…)
