Cross Season!

Kim raced under her USCF Pro Team in the GA Cross series with past weekend and did awesome!  She seems to be having a great season thus far.  She will be racing this weekend in GA as UTC Cycling, so GOOD LUCK KIM!   

From GA Cross website: The Women's A race saw a record 14 racers. Kim "Fairy" Flynn (Grace Law-Trek) took the win by about 40 seconds. An epic battle for second and third brewed between Lisa Randall (Outspokin) and Kim Sawyer (Nouveau Velo). Lisa pipped Kim at the line for 2nd.

Mountain Bike Conference, Conyers, GA

Conference went well!!!  Got a lot of comments and interest about the team which is good. Everyone seemed to really like our Jerseys as well!!  James competed in all four of the events. We still do not have results for the TT but I believe James Kicked butt!  He accidentally DQ'd himself from the ST race because of a miscommunication on the LAST LAP!  Then raced DS, qualified then missed two gates and got DQed..again..Then the next morning FLATTED on the first lap of the XC race talk about bad luck. However, James was trooped and rode what he could until he was able to get a spare and change out tubes and proceed to finish the race.  Way to go!  Stephanie raced three of the four, still unsure of TT results, 1st in the ST, and 1st in the XC race on her rental bike ;) Pics to come soon hopefully!!  Sadly we never made it to the fair.

River Gorge

August 28 and 29th marked our Road season closer at the River Gorge Omnium.  We had a great turn out for UTC as we had three guys race the road race and two girls.  There is not a better way to end the season then at a local race with a brutal climb at mile 40 to the top of Racoon!!  It was great to see this season end on such a good note.  Last summer we started with nothing and with five people racing I can not imagine what we will be able to get accomplished in the next year.   James came out and did his first road race and did very well, with a 27th finish and Rob not far behind.   Even though we did well, we had a few set backs, Rob broke his pedal and Don had a nature break. Sarah, raced her first race ever as well and got 2nd place in the Womens four group!!!What an amazing climber and trooper to hang in during all the attacks.  At the time trial, Stephanie got caught behind a car on the course and was forced to sit up and finished 12th.  During the crit on sunday Don and Stephanie both did well, Stephanie finished 5th in the sprint, giving her 5th overall for the Omnium, and raced again in the 123 race where she had a mechanical and could not get back in.  Don also did very well leading the group out and in the front constantly.  He finsihed  in the crit and  overall.

Thank You!

On Friday Merves,  burger place on Mountain Creek Rd, across from the old Food Lion donated $30 to the team!!!!!! THANK YOU MERVES!!!  If you stop by there be sure to thank them!!!

Booker T. Sunday Aug 22nd

UTC had a good weekend overall as James Eubank and Kym Fasczewski both won at Booker T's mountain bike race this past weekend.  For James this was his first race and beat the number two guy by 21 mins!!! Congrats James!!  As for Kym, she WON the Woman's pro field racing under her team Grace Law-Trek-Vantiago and is leaving this wed to race in the World Cup Finals under the USA National Team!!!! GOO KYM!!  Collegiate Mountain bike season is just around the corner and things are looking GOOD!

Oak Ridge Omnium

We had a great weekend at Oak Ridge!  Don came in 6th in the State Championship RR, Rob competed in his first ever cat 5 race, and Stephanie came in 6th for the RR.  Later that day Stephanie competed in the TT finishing with a time of 22:3something. On Sunday, Stephanie finished 10 th in the crit putting her at a 8th place for the omnium.

Southern Heat Results

Thank you to everyone that showed up at our First Southern Heat 400 M Sprint Tournament.  It went very well we got MANY useful things!!!  Everyone had a blast and I believe there will be many more of these to come!!!

Highlights include Jack sprinting on a 47 cm bike, Matt beating Bert for the mens win and 6 women showing up to race!  Many showed just to watch as well!