American Bicycle Racing's
Illinois State Road Race Championships

Adventurequest 207th St North, Rapids City, IL

Saturday July 18, 2009
11am Race Start
9:30 registration and packet pickup.
Registration closes 15 minutes before race start.

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Race flyer

Cordova, IL

Sunday July 19, 2009
First rider off at 9:01AM
Registration 7:45 - 9:00
No double rides on race day registration

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Race flyer

I would like to start by saying.what an incredible day we had weather wise! The morning started cool, the low was 37 degrees, and at the race start, it was around 50 degrees with very low winds around 4mph, then the high got up to around 65 degrees for the day. I would also like to thank my faithful crew of volunteers, which without them, well, you know. Lisa Wessling and Jennifer Ainsworth mastered the registration duties, Terry Burke helped with course marking, Dave Van Hook helped me with set-up/tear down and was the turn around corner marshal, the best start timer around Mike Desch, Frank Martin was the wrangler, and William Huntsberger was our holder, and a big thanks to Bob Lundberg, our official. Thanks again everyone! In addition, I cannot go on without thanking the racers who drove a fair distance to race our course. Without you and your continued support, it makes it tough to put on events like this. So thank you for always showing up at this race! Last, but not least, I would like to thank the Barstow Fire Department, for the venue and the great food you grilled for us, the Quad Cities Bicycle Club, the DICE Cycling Team, the Rock Island County Sheriffs Department, and a few kind individuals for your generous donations to ensure a profitable event along with your continued support for grassroots bicycle racing here in the Midwest. A huge THANK YOU to ALL of YOU!!


The conditions were perfect Sunday for a potential course record. And we got one!! With a time of 29:21.84 and a speed of 25.39 mph, Debbie Dust, of the PACT/Dish Network team, from Chicago, blistered Diane Roanhaus', of Rock Valley Oil, from Franklin, WI, previous best time from 2007 by 1 minute and 8.06 seconds. Very nice ride Debbie! The men's winner for the '09 edition of the 20K, a new force in time trials from Muscatine, IA and the Harper's/Melon City team was Chad Bishop with our second time under 26 minutes. His time of 25:55.53 and a speed of 28.76 mph is second over all to Bryce Mead, of Jelly Belly, and Sterling, IL, in 2008 to a time of 25:18.42 and a speed of 29.47 mph. Our women's QCBC winner was Laurel Darren, Moline, IL for her first ever bicycle time trial with a winning time of 36:59.08 and a speed of 20.16 mph. Awesome job from one of the QC area's premier female marathon and ultra distance runners, who by the way is training for her first ever-full Ironman later this summer, Good Luck Laurel! The men's winner, the current Quad Cities Bicycle Club President, John Harrington won with a winning time of 30:32.19 and a speed of 24.14 mph, who rode a great ride, and then decided to take advantage of the great weather and some company from the DICE Team, and rode home to Bettendorf, IA from the Barstow course. With the results below, we try to do the best we can but sometimes there are mistakes, and if there are any, I apologize. If one was made with your results, please e-mail me offline and let me know what needs to be changed and I will make the changes. Also, if you should have received a medal, or received the wrong one, please let me know and I will get you a new plate if you have a medal or a new medal and plate if you didn't receive one.

Results

Donnie Miller

Old Towne Vande Cross
Devils Cross

Race #2 of the Double "I" CycloCross Experiment Series
Results here

We had 58 racers and 4 kids brave the cold temps for the Second Annual Old Towne Vande-Cross. The temps started at 34 but dropped down to 31 degrees with a 15 to 20 mph wind making it feel like 25, down to 19 degrees. Buurrrrr, I think winter is here!

I'd first like to thank the racers coming from everywhere to race this race! You made this a fun time!!

Second, I'd like to thank my volunteers that made this event possible; Lisa Wessling, Terry Burke, and Karen Schaar for registration. Scott Swanson, our FROZEN Official. Rick and Joan Wren, and Becky Bernard from the FORC Team, and Bruce Grell, Greg Aronson, Jeff Abel, Matt Klemish, Bill Monson, Gerry Voelliger, and Scot Schaar from the DICE Team, for course set-up and teardown. Also, Sean Walker and all of the Cutters with teardown help. The QCBC, Dr. Mike Giudici, and the DICE Team as our sponsors for the Double "I" CycloCross Experiment Series as well as this race.

In addition, I would like to thank Kim West and the Kim West Radio Cycling Show for the great review in his latest show, of which you can hear here. We had four great races, with some very close racing.

If I've messed anything up or miss spelled anything please let me know and I will get it corrected.

Don't forget the last two races of the series will be Psyclofest on Nov 22nd at Crowe Creek Park, Bettendorf, IA and Middle Park Madness, Bettendorf, IA.

Thanks a lot!
Donnie

We had a beautiful day for the 6th Annual DICE 40K TT Championships, in Cordova, IL. The tempsranged from a perfect 69 to 76 degrees and the wind started off at 11mph from the WNW (head/cross on the return trip) to gust over 21mph. The later it got the more the wind picked up. I would like to thank my volunteers Lisa Wessling and Jennifer Ainsworth for registration, Mike Desch as my starter, Bill Wiebel as my wrangler, Chief Rich Whalen as my left turn corner marshal, the Cordova Township Civic Center for the facilities, and Bob Lundberg for timing the event. I would also like to thank MATTS for the medals and T-shirts for raffle, Profile for the TT bars for raffle, Sigma for the bike computer for raffle, and Park Tools for the toolbox at the races.

We had 72 people doing 76 rides. We had 5 Juniors doing 20K and the Male Junior Winner was 16yr old Steve Miwa with a time of 35.31.36 and the Female Junior Winner was 17yr old Elizabeth Miwa with a time of 46.55.80. The Female Overall Winner goes to Debi Dust, Chicago, IL, and MetLife/Pony Shop with a time of 60:56.22 and a speed of 24.47mph. The Men's Overall Winner went to Christopher Mosora, Downers Grove, IL, and Lucas Oil with a time of 54:36.82 and a speed of 27.31mph. The Quad Cities Bicycle Club Champions were Margaret Millar with a 77:19.68 and John Grice with a 57:18.45.

  Results

Donnie

We had a small field but great race on July 12th for the 4th Annual Mississippi Bluffs Road Race. The rain held off and we had dry roads for the whole race. I would like to thank my volunteers for helping out; Lisa Wessling for registration, Terry Burke for registration and corner marshal, Deb Wood for corner marshal, and Sgt. Steve Ven Huizen from the Rock Island County Sherriff's Department as my left turn corner marshal! I would also like to thank Adventure Quest for letting us use their facilities for the race! Thanks again to the racers for coming out and racing this great course!

  Results

Donnie

I would like to thank everyone for coming out this last Sunday for the Eighth Annual DICE 20K TT Championships. We had 51 people doing 54 rides, which was down from 113 last year. The weather was cool, sunny, and 55 degrees with a NW wind between 12 and 23 mph. Therefore, it must have been the gas prices keeping people from traveling. I'd like to thank my volunteers Lisa Wessling, Jennifer Ainsworth and Rebecca Carroll for doing registration, Dan Carroll for helping me with course set-up, Mike Desch as the starter, Frank Martin as the wrangler, Bill Minard as the holder, and Bob Lundberg as our official.

Despite having a windy day a new course record was set for the men with Bryce Mead from Jelly Belly coming down from Sterling, IL to set a blistering 25:18.42 with a speed of 29.47 mph and a pace of 2:02.2 min/mile, awesome job Bryce! Then he rode back to Sterling by bike! Paul Deninger held the previous course record at 26:13. The womens overall winner was Karen Stierler from BikeTech coming over from Coralville, IA with a 31:29.81 and 23.67 mph, awesome job Karen!! The QCBC winners were John Grice with a 28:35.98 and Margaret Millar with a 37:05.06 great job you two!!

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Donnie