Registration for Hillsboro Roubaix is open. I don’t see a flier yet, but men’s 3/4’s are capped at 100, 4/5’s at 75 and 5’s at 50. I expect all three of those will fill up, starting with the 5’s, as this is one of the most popular road races in the Midwest, and deservedly so.

Congratulations to Vitaminwater-Trek for apparently winning the race before the race and being first to register.

1 P.M. UPDATE: Four hours later, the 5’s field is almost 50 percent full, the 4/5’s field is 33 percent full and the 3/4’s field is almost 25 percent full. Happily, most of these registrations are from the Chicago area.

2 P.M. UPDATE: Promoter Rich Pierce posts the following over at STLBiking:

“In the interest of safety (#1!) we have made changes:

“The men’s 5 race will be one lap. That’s right, 22 miles of heck-for-leather racing and then you’re done to recover and watch the pros duke it out.

“The women’s 4 race will be one lap only, 22 miles instead of 44 miles.

“The women’s 1,2,3 race will be 2 laps (44 miles) instead of 66 miles.

“This will allow us to have these fields fields finish quicker and then we’ll have fewer fields on the road to manage. We had to do it! If we could we’d have 13 fields, 3 of them being men’s 5’s! But it’s not possible to do it and score racers and keep them safe.”

4 P.M. UPDATE: Good-bye, Roubaix Tuesday! The 5’s race is now full. Your options are either to register for the 4/5 race or to ask -- politely, with sugar on top -- to be put on a waiting list.

By the way, how awesome are these pre-registration lists? Surely I won’t be the only one who will be spending the next 45 days sizing up my competition by seeing how they did last year and looking up their results at USA Cycling. (Tip: Googling a person’s name along with “compid” will usually return a list of their USCF results.)

7:30 P.M. UPDATE: Theres no time to lose, I heard her say;
Catch your dreams before they slip away. And now the 4/5’s race has filled. Now a Cat 5’s best shot of participating is to work the feed zone. Cat 4’s, there’s still room the 66-mile 3/4’s race.