Wells Fargo Twilight Criterium and Idaho State Crit Champs

25 07 2008

This last weekend was the Wells Fargo Twilight Criterium and the Idaho State Criterium Championships in Boise, ID. This weekend was a lot of fun! At the Twilight Crit we had 3 racers in the Mens Cat 4/5 category. Josh Egan, Zach Hannibal, and Keith Bickford all represented the University of Idaho well! This was Keith’s first road race ever, let alone crit! He did a great job and is now excited about racing! The field was full with 75 racers. The field ended up being seperated into 2 and the second field ended up being pulled since they were close to being lapped. Zach ended up leading the second pack and won the sprint and ended up in 26th place! Josh was in the main field and stayed in the entire time! He ended up getting 25th place!

The only field for women was Women’s Pro. So, Katrina Finley got her upgrade to Cat 3 this week for this race. Well, Kristin Armstrong also did the race! If you don’t know, she is representing the USA in road cycling going to the Beijing Olympics in 14 days! She lapped the field. Needless to say, Katrina was not expecting the race to be that fast. Anyway, she had fun, but was pulled pretty early on with thousands of people watching.

Sunday was the Idaho State Criterium Championships. Zach, Katrina, and Brian Hannibal all raced representing the University of Idaho. Katrina raced in the Women 3/4 field. The awards from the Idaho State Road Race Championships were given out before the race (which she got a silver medal in). During the race she stay in the entire time! She got 6th which was ok.

Zach and Brian raced in the Men Cat 4/5 race. They both did great. Zach got 13th and Brian got 14th overall (separated by a lap or two)! For Brian’s first race he did great, as he was lapped by the field he caught back onto the pack and managed to hang on for another 8 laps! Overall the Vandals had a fun weekend and had a good showing with some new riders!

Check out some of the pictures…