This Week in Road Cycling: August 18 to August 24

This week's TWIRC might be a little short, and I'll probably miss something important. Sorry. Instead of spending all weekend sitting in front of my computer compiling information like I usually do, I went camping and slept in a flooded tent. Anyway, here it goes.

Local Racing

Races in August:
-Skull Valley RR: Skull Valley, AZ- Aug 24; http://wmrc.org/skull/index.htm
*This is the last road race of the season. If you plan on going, and want to carpool, email me and I'll try and facilitate everyone.

Races in September: There is a lot going on for the last month of the season
-AZ Team Time Trial Championships: Picacho, AZ- Sept 7; http://www.southwesthandcyclingteam.com/AZTT/TTT.htm
*Does anyone with a tandem want to race in the tandem division? For some reason I think doing a tandem time trial would be awesome.
-AZ Time Trial Championships: Picacho, AZ- Sept 14; http://www.southwesthandcyclingteam.com/AZTT/ITT.htm
-Buckeye Crit: I assume in Buckeye, AZ- Sept 20
-Sonoita TT: Sonoita, AZ- Sept 21; http://www.saguarovelo.org/infosonoita.htm
-AZ Hill Climb Championships: Mt. Graham, AZ- Sept 28; http://presteza.com/MtGrahamIndex.html
-AZ Cyclocross Race #1: Payson, AZ- Sept 28; http://www.azcross.com/content/races/september_28th2c_2008.aspx

Pro Racing:

Olympic Time Trial:
Fabian Cancellara won, of course, and at this time is responsible for 40% of Switzerland's total medal count. His CSC teammate Gustav Erik Larsson got second for Sweden, and Levi Leipheimer was third.

Olympic Track Racing:
I didn't really keep track of what happened over the weekend, so here is a recap from someone who did.

US Crit Nationals in Downer's Grove:
Rahsaan Bahati of Rock Racing took the win. I look forward to seeing what his national champ kit will look like. I really love this team, as long as they're not doing this.

Until next week,

Anthony