The Nebraska Cycling Association held its annual meeting January 17 after a day of clinics and meetings. During the meeting EVC/Team Type 1-Nebraska’s Craig Harding was re-elected as Treasurer while Elkhorn Valley Cycling’s Kevin Murray was elected the the Board of Directors.
A full detailing of the meeting is on the Nebraska Cycling Association website.
In addition, the 2012 Nebraska race calendar was presented. The calendar is listed below and is included in the EVCC calendar.
The Jackrabbit Hundy, promoted by the Jackrabbit Racing team, went off this last Saturday October 15 on the “long, slow rolling hills North of Omaha.” According to organizer Dave Tyler, there were 43 starters and 35 finishers, with the last rider rolling at a time of 11:59. The popularity of these endurance-based events is growing and the number of events available annually continues to rise accordingly.
Elkhorn Valley Cycling had a number of entries in this year’s Hundy with some very good finishing spots in the overall and three sub-categoreies; MTB, CX, and Singlespeed. Congratulations to Kim Carveth for being the top woman finisher!
Full results are here
EVCC/TT1 Results
| Name | Time | Overall | CX | MTB | SS |
| Rich Anderson | 7:30:51 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Dan Zieg | 8:19 | 21 | 17 | ||
| Joe Savoie | 8:19:03 | 22 | 2 | ||
| Jerry Karloff | 8:26:08 | 23 | 4 | ||
| Kim Carveth | 9:31:11 | 29 (1 Women) | 21 (1st Women) |
Michael Dixon photo
The Nebraska cyclocross season opened under clear skies at the popular Swanson Park in Bellvue October 1 with the Omaha Opener followed by the Bellevue Grand Prix the next day. Both days of racing were promoted by veteran ‘cross racer Randy Crist and the Velo Veloce Cycling Club.
Overall, Cole Skiba and Janna Vavra had the best weekend for the team, with Janna scoring a second the frist day and a win the second day in Women 1-2-3. In Mens 4Cole took foruth on Saturday and second on Sunday just ahead of Glen Houts. Next in was Buddy Houts for fourth overall and frist junior.
In contrast to the veteran Rich Anderson, Whitney Porn showed up at Swanson for a Satruday ride and ended up racing, and placing, in her first ever cyclocross race. Troy Leavitt finished the weekend with two solid performances as well.
As a sidebar to this event, check out Glen Houts’ post on his blog Coming Back Better.
It was a productive weekend for Elkhorn Valley Cycling Club on the grass and barrier scene with riders in Iowa at the Capital City Cross and Wisonsin at the USGP of CX Planet Bike Cup.
In Des Moines at the Capital City Cross Rich Anderson had two good days with a 12th in the Cat 3 race on Saturday and 4th in the 35+ race Sunday. Rich gets the “Nerves of Steel” award for replacing two chainring bolts on the starting line Sunday.
Cole and Rob Skiba and Troy Leavitt made the journey along with many other Nebraska ‘crossers to Sun Prairie, Wisconsin for the first two rounds of the US Grand Prix of Cyclocross.
Troy scored mid (huge) pack finishes both days – 48th on day one and 30th on day two. Rob Skiba was 75th on day one.
Cole raced two events on Saturday earning 14th in the Cat 4 and 6th in his Junior age group race. On Sunday Cole raced only the Junior class mudfest and came in 11th.
This weekend, October 1 and 2, mark the opening rounds of the Nebraska cyclocross season with the Omaha CX Weekend at Swanson Park.
After an abbreviated season the 2011 Rider of Year standings are final and posted. Elkhorn Valley Cycling came away with three champions – Cole Skiba, Jerry Arnold, and Troy Leavitt – and several top ten finalists.
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