Author: Tom Saccone

Join us for the Tour of Bloomington bicycle race on May 2nd and 3rd, 2015! The Tour of Bloomington is presented by the Scholars Inn Bakehouse and consists of the Bloomington Criterium on May 2nd and the Morgan-Monroe State Forest Road Race on May 3rd! The criterium takes place on the well-raced roads of downtown Bloomington a week after the legendary Indiana University Little 500! The road race travels along the roads in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest and up the col du Beanblossom! These events are permitted (pending) by USACycling and registration will be opening soon on www.bikereg.com.

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Can’t race? Then join the effort as a volunteer and get a cool ‘Race Crew’ T Shirt!

Visit www.tourofbloomington.org for more information.

 

January has come and gone, and with it, some of the worst weather I remember in the Midwest.  Biblical rainfall, epic winds and, something I had never heard of before, the polar vortex.  Our first February ride was welcoming with temperatures in the 40s and winds out of the South.  But the roads were wet with runoff, the skies were overcast and rain was threatening off to the West.  It would have been easy to stay home.  

It was the last Sunday ride for us in 2013.  I am writing about it now from the comfort of my home office, space heater under the desk set to warm, hot tea steeping beside me.  A nice group arrived at the Scholars Inn Bakehouse for the noon departure of our regular Sunday team ride, including a couple of out of town guests; former teammate Aaron Pilling was in the area for the holidays, visiting from Colorado and Chris West, currently in Indianapolis joined the ride.  Also on the ride, testing my memory, were Andy Messer (Upland), Jacob Miller (BKB), Fred Rose, Ryan Shanahan, Thomas Walsh, Kevin Hays, Gary Palmer, Laura Felicetti, Shane Slaven, Aaron Prange.  Emily Palmer joined us for the start but turned after 30 minutes as she is recovering from a cold.