New Superweek details
Jun 7
2010
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Superweek has updated its 2010 schedule and filled in the remaining gaps.

The first Saturday and Sunday will be criteriums near Chicago, in Geneva and Homewood on July 10 and 11, respectively.

Tuesday, July 13, previously scheduled as a criterium in either Palatine, Ill., or Hales Corner, Wis., will now be a road race in Willow Springs. No details are online yet, but Soldier Field Cycling Tweets that the 3.8-loop will be a triangle covering the hilly portion of last year’s state road race: from Archer down Willow Springs Road to 95th Street, then a fast, sweeping descent back onto Archer. “Epic” may be a lot to ask for, but it will no doubt make the legs burn after a dozen or more circuits.

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1.

Jun 8
2010

7:35 am

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

It may not be “Epic”,but I will make my donation to be “pack fill”. I think they are up to four RR’s now…that works for me.

2.

Jun 8
2010

8:02 am

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Half Acre Cycling)

i hope they can manage to close off that part of archer, coming down off 95th would be very fatal if you went wide

3.

Jun 8
2010

9:29 am

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Tati)

What happened to the use of the word “circuit”?  Back in my day it was used to describe races that were between 1.5 and oh, I don’t know 7 or 8 miles long.  Sometimes you still hear it used in the phrase “finishing circuits” when you’re watching those fancy Europeans….or Philly…or reading Luke’s description of the course.

4.

Jun 8
2010

10:06 am

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

I think calling it a Road Race is just how to classify it with USAC

5.

Jun 8
2010

10:12 am

Tim Speciale (PSIMET Racing)

Are their guidelines a promoter has to follow to classify it a road race? As far as USAC upgrade points, a circuit and a road race are not the same.

http://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=580

6.

Jun 8
2010

10:59 am

Luke Seemann's avatar

Luke Seemann (XXX Racing-AthletiCo)

Myself, I was just using “circuit” because it sounds more Euro than “lap.” No extra meaning was intended.

That said, Tim is right: Under a certain distance, road races fall under the criterium/circuit race schedule for upgrade points.

In addition, my reading of Rule 3C1 suggests that a road race must be run on laps greater than 5km. Below 5km it becomes a criterium, with criterium rules, such as free laps.

Some of the Superweek courses push that definition. (The Whitnall Park “road race” is only 2 miles, for example.) IANAO, however, so I could be wrong on these details.

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Jun 9
2010

12:38 pm

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Tati)

Okay, so my stated minimum was about half what it should be.  I just remember there being a category listed on some of the old collegiate schedules   My interpretation is that if you’re doing multiple laps (circuits) of a course and want it to count under the “Road” rules (instead of crit) it has to be >5km. 

Somebody needs to do a handicapped race (3C2)  “Go!...No, not you Will Nowak/Druber/Ryan Freund, you start 5 miles back there”

 

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