Monday, April 24, 2017
USA CRITS SPEEDWEEK
USA CRITS SPEEDWEEK
Rock hill South Carolina's new purpose build criterium course was a perfect backdrop for the start of USA Crits Speedweek.
The Elite Stradalli cycle - Safetti clothing Team will be up against a stacked field with teams like Crit Life, Holowesko Citadel, Cinelli and Texas Road house bringing full teams just to name a few.
Luckily our guys were not bothered by this because they were poised to make their presence known, even among current and previous Crit national champions Dan Halloway, John Murphy, and Ty Magner as well as international flair in the form of Francesco Moser.
The Stradalli boys really rode well as a team mopping up multiple cash premes as well as the lap leaders jersey!
Congrats Florenz
This was made possible by two of our riders making it into a serious breakaway. While Florenz the German and Alberto the Mexican were in the break cleaning up lap points and money
Florenz ended up 6th in the sprint and taking the USA Crits lap leader jersey with Alberto finishing 10th and getting second in the young riders jersey
The team spirits are very high and everyone has an extremely optimistic view on the rest of Speedweek. Tonight the boys will be racing stop number two Belmont Criterium.
Monday, April 10, 2017
2017 Alabama McClellan Road Race Men’s Pro / Sunny King Pro Criterium Race Recap
This weekend’s racing recap of the 2017 McClellan Road Race
that took place in Anniston, Alabama was an amazing display of cycling talent,
physical endurance and teamwork from all athletes. The racing teams that
participated were a mix of UCI Pro Continental Teams, Continental Teams and
Elite men teams. Out of 150 Riders in Sundays Road race event only 24 out of
150 riders finished.
The Alabama hills were a force to be reckoned with as our team had to tackle some high grade hills repeatedly and pushed all riders to their limit of endurance and training.
The Alabama hills were a force to be reckoned with as our team had to tackle some high grade hills repeatedly and pushed all riders to their limit of endurance and training.
Our flatland Florida team tried
their best and put on a 4 man chase and gained 1 min to the break but the steep
highway climb was just too much to handle and blew us apart. The most important
thing was that we used this weekend as a learning experience competing with the
top rated teams such as UCI PCT: UnitedHealthcare, UCI CT: Holowesko | Citadel
Racing, UCI CT: Rally Cycling ; we would like to congratulate and thank them
for the great racing and athleticism that we all got to experience on
Sunday. Yes we got beat up and now healing our wounds but its back to the
drawing board to get ready for speed week in 2 weeks , we learned a lot and are
happy to be alive after the big boys beat us up J
Saturday night was the Sunny King Criterium Race
night. Just finishing this race alive became a goal for most of the riders in
the Peleton as large crashes were taking tolls. Two of our 6 riders were in a
large crash that thankfully nobody was seriously injured. To sum up the
night with a direct quote from the EMT head Nurse that was on duty; “We have
used more medical supplies in the last few hours than in the last 3
years.” We would like to thank all of the of UCI Pro Continental Teams, Continental Teams and Elite men teams and for great racing weekend and most important thing that we could have taken back home which was to show us how much more hard work we have to do to as a team. We cannot win all races and sometimes realize there are some big boys racing against us that kicked our ass this weekend but after all we had a great weekend and it goes on.
Friday, April 7, 2017
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