Some highlights from a full weekend of racing:

• » WDT-Allvoi had another dynamite weekend.  In windswept sprints at the Vernon Hills Grand Prix, Voytek Glinkowski won the masters 4/5 (pictured above) and Tomasz Boba won the 3’s. Elsewhere, Jayson Torres won the 4’s criterium in Kenosha, Wis., followed by Maciek Kurka in 4th and Dennis Sandquist in 5th.

• » Francine Haas (Alberto’s) doubled up Sunday, winning the women’s masters race and then getting 2nd behind Jessi Prinner (ABD) in the women’s open.

• » Beverly Bike-Vee Pak got the best result of its inaugural season when Elvis Falbo got 2nd in the Vernon Hills masters 4/5 race. And since winner Glinkowski is 40+, Falbo gets to claim the victory for the 30+.

• » New racers for XXX Racing-AthletiCo won two races at Vernon Hills: Triathlete Chris Riekert rode away from the 5’s race, and in only her second race, Anna Loney won the 4’s field.  Jonathan Dugas also had a productive day, getting 2nd in the 4’s and 3rd in the masters 4/5’s.

• » IS Corp showed textbook teamwork in the 15-18 race when James Bird and Edward Gurney traded attacks out of the four-strong separation. After Gurney got reeled in on the last lap, Bird had no trouble taking the victory.

• » The Chicago Cuttin’ Crew continues to execute team tactics flawlessly, a nice thing to see in the 4’s, let alone a bunch of 5’s. In Saturday’s Winona Lake Road Race, Andrew Nordyke gave Jeff Perkins an unbeatable leadout to win the race. (You may remember Perkins from his CBR interview.) Daryl VanEssen finished right behind in 3rd and Nordyke held on for 9th.

• » Team Get a Grip Cycles also headed south with Aspen Gorey picking up 4th in the 3/4’s road race.  And although Tracy Tolson (Texas Roadhouse) is usually a lock in Indiana races -- seriously, check out this resume -- Devon Haskell and Lindsay Koren used their numbers to go 1-3 in the women’s open race. Riding alone the next day, Koren lapped the field and placed 2nd in the criterium.

• » Few Chicago riders made the trip to Baraboo for the hilly road race there, and the weather kept many Wisconsin riders away, too, keeping the fields rather intimate. Top Chicago finishers were Gigi Norcross (XXX Racing-AthletiCo), 3rd in the women’s 4’s, and Jacques Cartier (XXX Racing-AthletiCo), who escaped from the field to get 4th in the masters 4/5’s.

Saturday results
Baraboo Road Race
Winona Lake Road Race

Sunday results
Vernon Hills Grand Prix
Winona Lake Criterium

Baraboo Road Race reports
Kevin Clark (Half Acre; 4/5): “Then came that climb again. This one put me in a bad place.”

Lyle Hanson (GDVC; 3): “It doesn’t make for epic racing and proud storytelling to sit in and wait for the sprint, but sometimes you do what you need to do given the situation.”

IS Corp (P/1/2): “A little ridiculous.”

Luke Seemann (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 3): “I smelled nice and felt very Euro.”

Calvin Smythe (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 4/5): “I was feeling good. I wasn’t just hanging with the pack, I was trying to strike up conversation with other riders who seemed worried about the hardships to come.”

Vernon Hills race reports
Peter Allen (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 4, 30+ 4/5): “I thought we could at least get a paceline going to try and catch the peloton. Great in theory, hard in practice.”

Beverly Bike-Vee Pak (5, 30+ 4/5): “At 150 to go, the door opened up and that’s when Elvis started winding up his sprint. He looked up at 50 meters to go and realized he was off the front and powering toward the win.”

John Boggs (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 5): “My plan was to breeze up along the outside of the pack back up front coming up the slight incline out of Turn 3, where there was protection from the wind.”

Chad Chenoweth (Team Get a Grip Cycles; 3): “The split was just a little too big and there were too many guys trying to sit on.”

Nick Gierman (Vitaminwater-Trek; 4): “Every time a gap opened and I jumped to close it, I turned around and the field was right on my wheel.  “

Jeff Holland (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 4): “The finish was a long one and everyone started their sprint way too soon. I passed a few people, got passed by some others, passed even a few more, etc, etc.”

Chris Padfield (Team Pegasus; 4): “As I was coming into the final turn I really thought I had it.”

Tom Panton (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 5, 30+ 4/5): “One of them caught my front wheel and for a second or two, I thought I might be able to hold it but then, BOOM, I was on the ground.”

Luke Seemann (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 3): “The group never organized. You’d have thought everyone would have recognized this as an express train to the top 10.”

Jeff Wat (Vitaminwater-Trek; 30+ 1/2/3, 3): “With one to go, Goodwin got me close enough to the express train and I yelled ‘ChooChoo on!’”

Vernon Hills photos
Carolyn Golz

Village of Winona Road Race reports
Brian Boyle (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 3/4): “One Brian fights spoke, other Brian fights the wind.”

Team Get a Grip Cycles (3/4, W-open): “Devon managed to not only find a random spare wheel and have it pumped up, but also rework her way back through the patchy field and rejoin us just before the finish.”

Jeff Perkins (Chicago Cuttin’ Crew; 4/5): “‘UP! UP! UP!’ I’m shouting as if I know what the hell I’m talking about.”

Zach Thomas (Half Acre; 4/5): “Winona, Ind., is not the same as Winona Lake, Ind.”