UND Cycling Team hosts home road race weekend May 1-2

[Sal Atticum]

For the first time in a number of years, UND cycling will be hosting a road race weekend for the North Central Collegiate Cycling Conference (have to throw the conference name in there since I know how crazy some people are about that ). We're hoping for as much community support as we can get since the team will be occupied with racing and the club won't be able to handle everything ourselves.

The UND cycling team receives no athletic funding; all competition is supported by money from SAC, sponsors, and for the most part by the athletes themselves.

When: May 1st and 2nd, 2010

Where:

-Road race, west of Merrifield, ND, 10 AM Saturday

-Team Time Trial, west of Merrifield, ND, 4 PM Saturday

-Criterium (Conference Championship race), Ralph Engelstad Arena, 10 AM Sunday

Who is needed:

-Homestay hosts (see http://talk.campusdakota.com/index.php?topic=5112.0)

-Course marshals and registration help

-Photographers (see http://talk.campusdakota.com/index.php?topic=5067.0)

-Spectators and UND fans

The official race flyer, location information, and press release are available here: http://talk.campusdakota.com/index.php?topic=5109.0

Please reply with any questions to this thread or the topics on the UND Cycling message board.

[Sal Atticum]

No cycling fans here, I'm guessing?

Even if the team won the conference championship in the team time trial two weekends ago in Nebraska and C riders Chad Boehm and Erik Sanders went 1,2 in the road race championship last weekend in the heart of Gopher country?

[dagies]

Cycling's a great sport. If I was in the area I'd definitely help out.

[Sal Atticum]

Cycling's a great sport. If I was in the area I'd definitely help out.

Thanks for the support, dagies. The event went off pretty well, only one crash (at the end of the men's A/B/C road race) except for someone sliding out during warmups on Sunday (both MN riders, as far as I know, and both okay). We don't know the full results for conference points yet.

UND Results:

Men's A RR: 3rd Mariuscz Czarnomski

Men's C RR: 1st Erik Sanders, 2nd Chad Boehm

Men's D RR: 6th David Boura

Team Time Trial: 1st Division II (Chad Boehm, Logan Evans, Erik Sanders)

Men's A Criterium Championship: 3rd Mariuscz Czarnomski

Men's C Criterium Championship: 1st Chad Boehm, 2nd Logan Evans, 3rd Erik Sanders

Women's C Criterium Championship: 1st Tiffany Czarnomski

The full results (prime points and all that) are available here: http://talk.campusdakota.com/index.php?topic=5164.0

Mariuscz will be headed to collegiate road nationals this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin as an individual rider; he may be accompanied by other teammates for the TTT.

[brianvf]

No cycling fans here, I'm guessing?

Glad to see the UND Cycling Team doing so well. It kind of hit a wall there for a couple years with membership numbers (the last year that I was president, we won both the DII road and mtb conference titles), so I am happy to see it prospering once again and doing so well on the racing side.