With just a skeleton crew, the riders of Team Get A Grip Cycles managed to nearly sweep the womens categorized races and played a strong role in the men's elite category during this weekend's Monsters of the Midway Criterium in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.
Lindsay Koren netted her first win of the season in the category four bunch sprint to the line and nearly won the inaugural category three event later in the day (video posted yesterday). Newly crowned national champion Devon Haskell continued the team's domination by dragging around the elite field until only three remained, then outsprinting her break mates for the win. Haskell would later launch another bold move in the mens category three race.
For the men, the team's chief animator was clearly Cesar Correa who made an early bridge to the lone breakaway rider John Meyers, only to see Meyers escape solo again. Alas, both Correa's early move and a late race surge by Eric Wiecek failed to bring back the winning move and the team had to be satisfied with 3 in the top 15.
The team would like to thank the University of Chicago Velo Club and the Chicago Park Service for another wonderful day in the South Side; home of Barack Obama, Indiana Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Robert Fogel, the first man-made element, and Enrico Fermi, and more Nobel Prize winners than all of the Ivy League schools combined.
Last two photos courtesy of Jason Knauff of Burnham Racing/Vitaminwater-Trek.
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