Weekend Race Report- Hillsboro-Roubaix

Hillsboro-Roubaix

Several area racers took to the challenge of poor road conditions, high winds and dubious yellow-line-rule officiating, to contest the bricks of Hillsboro-Roubaix yesterday. Here’s a brief recap of some of the results. Get the full listing here: http://www.mylaps.com/results/showevents.jsp?st=3&org=67768.

The course was a 29 mile circuit in rolling farmland with several turns, narrow roads and poor road conditions. The large fields and the narrow roads kept the race dynamics to a minimum in several of the events, allowing attrition to do its work in the end.

The Women’s category 4 got things started with a single lap of the course for the 44 entrants (pre-reg). In the end, a 4 up sprint was won by the unattached Flaig, Work (Surgeon-Continental), Albertos rider Kikis and then Bloomington rider Liz Cobb (Scholars Inn Bakehouse) finishing 4th all with the same time! The Pro 1-2 event was 87miles and was won by Roessingh (IS Corp Cycling), 2^nd Aitcheson (Panther), 3^rd Christian (Panther). Mike Sherer was 10^th, just 4 seconds behind the leader. Erik Hamilton was 33^rd in the 100 man field. The Category 3 race (107 pre-reg) was won by French (708 Racing), 2^nd Cullen (MBRC Flanders), 3^rd Schilling (unattached). Locals Aaron Pilling (Scholars Inn Bakehouse) and Ryan Preske (Scholars Inn Bakehouse) made the final selection and finished 34^th and 35^th. Tom Saccone (Scholars Inn Bakehouse) finished in the chase group in 51^st. The Masters 40 plus was won by Curtis Tolson (Texas Roadhouse). Tom Cox (Aldefer-Bergen) was 13^th, Chris Kroll (CFW) was 20^th. In the Women’s 123 local Hannah Caproon (Pegasus) finished 34^th.