Broadview Heights CX #5

90 racers participated in race #5 of our Bike Authority Cyclocross Series held at The Fields in Broadview Heights.

Racers were treated to epic cyclocross conditions on Sunday as we had snow, mud, gravel soggy fields and paved sections as well. Nearly everyone that raced went home happy so that means the race was a success.

Team Lake Effect had several racers that placed very well

Robert, 1st. C

Nate, 2nd. C

Zak, 2nd. Junior

Julie, 1st. Woman

Gwen, 8th. Woman

Scott, 8th. B

Tony, 2nd. A

Matt, 7th. A

Rudy, 2nd. Master

Bill, 3rd. Master

Derek, 4th. Master

Chris, 10th. Master

Thank You to ALL that came out to help set up and tear down again, and special Thanks goes out to our registration and scorer teammates for standing in the cold all day, you gals and guys are AWESOME.

The Final Few Races

The racing season is definitely winding down in Ohio and surrounding regions. Here are the final few:

November

23th OH State Cross Champs

http://www.capcitycross.com/08/r7.html

30th Storm the Green Cyclocross

http://www.ovcx.com/Schedule.aspx

30th Murrysville Cyclocross http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=7174

December

7th Indiana State Cross Champs

http://www.racelistings.com/register/events/flyer.asp?ID=851

7th Boughton Farm Presented by TLE

http://teamlakeeffect.net/bacross.aspx

12-14th USA National Cross Champs

http://www.kccrossnationals.com/

Keep on racing and get ready for 2009!

Chagrin CX and Kirtland Park

Great weekend of cross racing once again in the Bike Authority CX Series. Saturday was the Chagrin River CX Race presented by Brett Davis. Brett did a great job with this race and had about 80 racers show up and race. The course was technical and had power sections as well. The beer garden, music, etc were all very nice features. Shawn was 3rd and Tony 9th. in the A race, Rudy, Jeff, Bill and Derek were top 4 in the A Masters, Robert had a hands held high in the air across the finish line again kind of race and Nate had a geat race to finish 7th.. Nice job to everyone that raced there, it was a hard course.

Julie won again in the Cap City Series. Julie is the overall Womens A points leader in this series with 1 more race to go before the State Championships.

Sunday was our Kirtland Park race. We had alot of help for this race and Pete even brought his generator and we had music for the first time, Thanks Pete for all of your help on Sunday.

Julie won the womens A race and Gwen was 8th., Matt was 5th and Tony 13th and Chris 19th. in the A race, Robert was 2nd. C, Nate was 6th, Rudy was 2nd. Master, Derek, 5th, Shawn and Bill both had mechanicals that took them out of the race. Scott Carter had a good race and finished 8th in the B's All teammates raced strong and hard in this race being extra hard due to all the stair run-ups and also racing hard the previous day. Nice job everyone!

Thanks to ALL of our teammates that came out early to help set up and stayed late to tear down. We couldn't do it to this extent without all of your help!

Broadview Heights is coming up on Sunday November 16th.

Orrville #2

Number 2 and the final Orrville Cross Series race was held on Sunday. The C race had Robert and Nate in it. Robert had another great race and took the win with Nate having a great race as well, but ended up flatting out. Nice job guys.

Julie raced and won in the Women's A. Julie and Robert are just dominating this season!

Men's A, had Shawn, Tony, Rudy, Matt, Derek and Bill.

Shawn was 2nd. Tony 4th. Rudy 6th, Matt 7th. Derek 10th. and Bill 12th. Good racing everyone!  Paul Martin took the win.

Very fast and hard racing today. It was windy and it even started raining and sleeting during the A race which made it very slippery in spots causing many racers to crash.

Thank's go out to the Orrville Cycling Club for hosting this race series again.

This weekend is Chagrin River CX and Kirtland Park.

Spin, Orrville, Cap City

Lots of cross racing this past weekend and several team members raced in the various events, most racing both days.

Spin's cross your heart and hope to die race was Saturday with Robert taking the win in the Open C division. Julie was 2nd in the A Women, Shawn was 2nd overall. Matt 6th. and  Rudy was 10th. overall and 2nd. Master in the large A, Masters combined field with Jeff, Derek and Bill taking 3rd. 4th. & 5th. in the Masters. Gwen, Chris, Pete and Tony all raced strong and all finished muddy.

Sunday was Cap City and Orrville. Julie won the Masters Women and Matt was 5th. at Cap City. Nice job Julie and Matt! Julie leads the Womens A series and Matt is 2nd. in the Mens A.  Robert won the Open C's at Orrville, Nate was 4th., Nice job to you Roberto and Nate. Shawn was 2nd. Rudy 5th., Tony 7th,. Derek 10th. and Bill 12th. in the A race at Orrville

Lots more cross racing this season with Orrville again this Sunday and our series starts back up again on November 2nd. at Kirtland Park.

Zach Johnson

TLE Junior, Zach Johnson at the 2008 Ohio State BMX Championships.

UCI Cyclocross Weekend

The Sroka's, Marut's, Shawn, Derek, Jeff and Brandt all raced near Cincinnati and Dayton this past weekend in the Java Johnny's Lionheart Cross on Saturday and Bio Wheels Harbin Park on Sunday. Both races were International Cyclocross events. UCI cyclocross is larger than the local events in which they draw racers from all over the country in search of UCI points to get a good starting position for U.S. Cyclocross Nationals held in December in Kansas City, Kansas.

All racers did well with Robert and Julie on the podium both days.

Nice job Team!

Leroy Cross

Good Team Lake Effect participation at the 1st. annual  Chagrin River Cycling, Leroy cyclocross race, we had 16 team members in the different races!. Kevin Kimmich did a nice job with the course, (very difficult) and had about 75 total racers attend.

The course was very technical with power sections, barriers and a ditch section that had everyone 2nd. guessing their riding skills.

At the end we had Robert winning the C race, Julie winning the women's race, Shawn 3rd. in the A race with Matt, Rudy and Tony, 4th, 5th, and 6th. Everyone else raced very hard for many top spots in the different races.

Great racing everyone.

Wendy Park Cross Race #1

Great turnout for this race with 120 racers participating.

The course was challenging with off camber sections, uphills, fast flats and technical sections that challenged everyone's riding ability. The team raced strong and did very well in the results. Many flats during the race though which hopefully will be alleviated next year.

Thanks to all teammates that helped over the weekend to make this new race possible, it was very time consuming and took alot of work, Thank You All!

Thanks to all the racers that turned out for this race. West Branch OMBC Crankfest was going on the same day and we still had 120 racers!  It just show's that cyclocross is getting bigger and better around the Cleveland area each year.