Originally Posted by
MJH2
John,
That was actually nicely done. Even though you tried to tip me off, I spent most of my ride to work wondering which Illinois Races were going to get nixed, and why somebody from Belgium would come here for a 70 mile road race.
As for the real schedule, the rumors of Arlington and Elgin being gone seem to be true (unless one of them is taking the place of that TBD). Looks like a good schedule to me, though.
With Elk Grove/Chicago/Downers all likely dead, Evanston could very well be the highlight of my year.
Well, "back in the day" (Oh no, here we go again) Otto used to fly guys over from Europe to race here. He'd have guest housing arranged and suppose only have to pay their tickets (or part?). I barely recall that when he was riding a lot himself, he'd take them out for social rides in the area. I was 17 or 18 at the time and can barely remember who was racing then. I do know that Festina was over here one year and KICKED A**. I was going to school over at UW-Milwaukee, hanging around the area a lot in the Summer and seeing the whole Festina B Team riding up Lake Drive. How cool!! More recently some Euro stud was here and flat out asked if he was 'juicing'. Response: "What? For this?" Meaning Superweek but certainly had the connotations that he wasn't beyond that behavior. Well, just like last year when they had the South African MTN team here. I love that foreign flavor that Superweek has always had. Man, I'll have to wrack my brain to remember who all rode here. Marcel Wust. Lance Armstrong of course back in '96 when he was prepping for the Atlanta Oly's. The Heidens, Lemond when he was 15. All those dude's raced here at one time or another.