• » Randy Gillespie (Team Mack) has been in intensive care since Sunday after a hard crash in a race near St. Louis. Assistance for him and his family can be given by sending Pay Pal funds to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
• » Dave Moyer (XXX Racing-AthletiCo) and Kristen Meshberg (ABD) are your 2011 elite men’s and women’s criterium champions, finishing as the top Illinois Cat 1 riders at Saturday’s Glencoe Grand Prix. That’s two in a row for Moyer. Meshberg previously earned the elite road race state championship in 2008.
• » Superweek has moved its Wednesday, July 13, race from Lake Geneva, Wis., to Brown Deer, north of Milwaukee. Registration is open, with $7 late fees kicking in Tuesday night. Superweek is also looking for host homes for riders.
• » Chicago Athlete reported this month that the 2010 Soldier Field Cycling Series is on. The 2011 edition, however, is far from certain. Be hopeful, but don’t hold your breath.

• » Online registration closes tonight for Saturday’s Glencoe Grand Prix, our state criterium championships and a stop on the men’s National Racing Calendar. Because of low pre-registration, the men’s 2’s race is being folded into the P/1’s race, and the women’s 3’s race is being folded into the women’s P/1/2’s. The respective 2’s and 3’s will still have separate championships based on the first Illinois riders to cross the line, and I am told an effort is being made to provide separate bib-number schemes for each field within a race.
• » West Town Bikes will be collecting donated bikes and parts at Glencoe.
• » The July 2 UWW Road Race is canceled, the third Wisconsin road race to be dropped this season.
• » Superweek registration is open.
• » The Chicago Velo Campus is looking for help to construct its temporary wood velodrome. Construction is scheduled for July 8-16. Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to schedule a shift.
• » Meet Andrew Nordyke (Chicago Cuttin’ Crew), T-shirt model.

• » Registration closes tomorrow for Saturday’s Cobb Park Criterium.
• » The Glencoe Grand Prix will include a free women’s clinic on Friday, June 24, led by the professional racers of Tibco.
• » The Tour of Galena is soliciting feedback from riders who participated in this weekend’s inaugural edition. (There are have been many positive reports from the weekend, but my favorite may be this one from Sarah Mythen (XXX racing-AthletiCo): “Sure, the bike was big, and I didn’t have the same clips, and I wasn’t in junior gears, but I went to Galena to race, and that was just what I was going to do.”

The Evanston Grand Prix, which had been scheduled for Aug. 21 and slated to be on the National Racing Calendar, will instead take place Sunday, July 17, and be a part of Superweek, its home since it made its debut in 2007.

The move follows an injunction Breakaway Event Productions sought in Cook County Chancery Court against Turin Bicycle and Chris Mailing, who had organized the race in previous years and who had sought to run it independently in 2011. In its filing, Breakaway claimed Mailing had agreed to run an Evanston criterium for Superweek in 2011 and 2012.

To avoid litigation costs, Mailing said, the parties agreed to a settlement in late May that is scheduled to be finalized soon. As part of the settlement, Mailing will organize the Evanston Grand Prix as part of Superweek in 2011. Moving forward, Breakaway will own rights to the name “Evanston Grand Prix,” and starting in 2012 Mailing will be free to promote his own race in Evanston.

The July race will not be an NRC race. The August date had the potential to draw blockbuster fields, with the men’s national championship and a women’s NRC race taking place the day before in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Reached for comment, Breakaway’s Andy Garrison said: “I am glad that we were able to work things out with Chris Mailing, and we look forward to producing the Evanston Grand Prix for its fifth year.”

• » ABD swept the elite road race championships this weekend behind Ben Damhoff and Jeannie Kuhajek, who both survived long ordeals in punishing heat. Both are scheduled to race their first races as state champions this Saturday at the Tour of Galena — for which I should note pre-registration closes tonight.
• » Who else is hot? Young Brian Ellison (Chicago Cuttin’ Crew), who after making his road debut with a 2nd in the 4/5’s at Monsters of the Midway has reeled off four consecutive victories: three in the 5’s, plus Saturday’s state championship Sunday’s Spring Prairie Road Race in the 4’s.
• » And the action is sure to be hot June 25. The Glencoe Grand Prix this week announced that former national champions John Murphy (BMC) and Rahsaan Bahati (SKLZ) will toe the line for our state criterium championships. That same day, more than $5,000 in primes will be on the line for the Tour of America’s Dairyland Downer Classic.
• » A $500 purse will be on the line Thursday for the inaugural Tomasz Pac Memorial Points Race, sponsored by PACT/Dish Network.

• » Any victory in the big Memorial Day races deserves special note, and this year all our wins came Monday at the Quad Cities Criterium: Ryan Fay (XXX Racing-AthletiCo) in the 3’s, Josh Shough (Chicago Cuttin’ Crew) in the 4’s and Brian Ellison (Chicago Cuttin’ Crew) in the 5’s and Stacy Appelwick (ABD) in the women’s P/1/2/3’s. Meanwhile, Josh Dreyfus has some nice photos from Monday’s masters action in Wood Dale. Feel free to post links to other photos or reports in the comments.
• » Wisconsin’s state criterium championships had been slated for June 11-12 in Ripon, but those races are off, and its championships will instead be July 10 in Menomonee Falls.
• » Registration closes tomorrow for Saturday’s Illinois road race championships in O’Fallon. It’s a long haul, so use the ride board to offer or seek transportation.
• » Today is the last day for teams to get discounts to the Tour of Galena. Enter four men in a field, the fifth rides free. Enter three women, get a rebate.
• » The Chicago Velo Campus appeared on NBC this morning. A fundraiser is scheduled for Friday at the Adler Planetarium.
• » Reserve your tent space for the Glencoe Grand Prix.
• » Kenosha, Wis., firefighters have challenged riders of the Chicago Fire Department to a showdown at the Kenosha velodrome amid regular racing on June 7. Some of the them are training for September’s World Police and Fire Games in New York.
• » On July 8 there will be a Women’s Cycling Meet and Greet at New Wave Coffee in Logan Square.