Some highlights from the rest of the weekend:

• » ABD defended its ABR national championship by winning Sunday’s 1/2 criterium in Winfield, this time behind Saturday’s winner Josh Carter, who previously held the title in 2007. He, Chris Uberti (Panther/RFG) and Mike Sherer (Alderfer Bergen) formed a break early and built more than a minute lead.
• » A small women’s field came down to practically a match sprint between three riders, with Michigan’s Christy Keely (Team Kenda) beating locals Debbie Dust (PACT/Dish Network) and Jessi Prinner (ABD).
• » Waylon Janowiak (WDT-Allvoi) and Hogan Sills (Verizon Wireless) both showed their Saturday podiums were no flukes, coming in 3rd and 4th in the 3’s, but it was Indiana’s Eric Young (Morris Trucking) taking the top step.
• » Chicago once again invaded and pillaged the Wisconsin state road race championships. Check out Vision Quest laying waste to the 30+  race, sweeping the podium behind Alex Pavlov, Robbie Ventura and Mike Heagney.  We also got winners in Devon Haskell (Team BH USA), who outkicked an eight-woman 1/2/3 break; Wisconsin resident Caroline Haebig (WDT-Allvoi) in the women’s 4’s; and Luke Seemann (XXX Racing-AthletiCo), who escaped late in the 3’s. The out-of-state 4/5’s race came down to a bunch sprint, insofar as one can sprint on a 14 percent grade, and Jake Teitelbaum (Spidermonkey Cycling) conquered it with a huge gap.

Full Winfield results.  Full Spring Prairie results.

Winfield reports
Rob Curtis (Bicycle Heaven; 4): “If you aren’t moving up then you’re being passed. It’s that simple. It becomes a self-feeding frenzy where the pace picks up as a result.”

Debbie Dust (PACT/Dish Network; W-1/2/3): “My back wheel skipped me along to a very close first-loser finish. Boo. But that’s racing and it just comes with the territory.”

Ed Hernandez (North Branch Cycling; 3): “It was almost as if everyone had rockets strapped to their chainstays, but my rockets were installed backwards.”

Brian Morrissey (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; 3, 4): “I’m gaining, gaining, gaining, and finally throw hard for what I swear to God is 3rd.”

Chris Uberti (Panther/RGF; 1/2): “I just followed Mike Sherer‘s (Alderfer Bergen) attack to cover some stuff, and before I knew it Josh Carter (ABD), Mike and I were drilling it for an hour.”

Winfield photos
Andy Daley
Brian Morrissey
Jim Whitmer

Spring Prairie reports
Danny Beissinger (Cycle Smithy; 3): “By the 6th lap, I began an unfortunate spiral into dehydration.”

Team BH Racing (W-P/1/2/3): “We all started the last brutal slog up the climb. Devon was flying and was able to come around Kristen to take the WIN!”

Doug Braun (Tower Racing; Non-WI 4/5): “I drilled it as hard as I could all the way up. At the crest of the hill one guy passes me with a huge burst of speed and goes ahead. I look behind and the next guy is 20 yards back. I try to catch the guy but the tank is empty.”

Tamara Fraser (XXX Racing-AthletiCo; W-35+): “I wanted to get on the front and drill it, but everyone was trying to get up front and I got blocked in.”

Chris Padfield (Team Get a Grip Cycles; 3): “I thought of trying to take off as well, but didn’t foresee myself lasting until the finish if there were more than two laps to go.”

James Pradun (Great Dane Velo Club; 3): “Everyone in the field looked at each other like they had just heard a duck’s quack echo or something because there were a mass of confusing stares over who the hell was going to chase.”

Mike Shea (Spidermonkey Cycling; Non-WI 4/5): “It’s ironic that suffering up such hills is so glorious in retrospect.”

Adrian Silva (Half Acre Cycling; Non-WI 4/5): “With the desperate knowledge that if we didn’t close the gap our race would be over, I put my head down and got aero on the hoods.”

Katy Steudel (Team Pegasus; W-4): “I was tenaciously climbing my way to the top, picking my way through the women that seemed to be almost standing still.”

Jake Teitelbaum (Spidermonkey Cycling; Non-WI 4/5): “After a few quick spins, I had the diesel engine going and within five pedal strokes, I had passed all of the 10 or 12 people in front of me.”

Zach Thomas (Half Acre Cycling; Non-WI 4/5): “The pack, where I really wanted to be, was going up the road faster than I could muster.”

Kristen Wentworth (Team Kenda; W-P/1/2/3): “I shifted to the big ring over the top and tried to catch her wheel but she was too strong.”

Spring Prairie photos
Katy Steudel
John Wilke