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Assaulting Amphibians and other Weekend Activities

Due to pending thunderstorms, tonight's hill repeats at Great Falls have been canceled. In their place, I offer you more links on the Interweb to a bunch of people around here writing about bike racing:

• Cyclochris was out assaulting amphibians in Norfolk, at the VA Crit Champs. Want to read about the Cat 5 race and see a bunch of photos and a video of the finish? Maybe a video of the women's race is more to your liking. A pair of clips from the end of the 1/2/3 race sound tempting? Or perhaps you'd like to read up on the continuing saga of Tough Ellie? Cyclochris has got it all. And he also raced at Camp Hilbert the next day - maybe he'll do a post for each lap.
• GamJams.net welcomes Nick "Agent" Mulder to the bike racing blogosphere. His first entry is about being a team playa in the 1/2/3 race at Quicksilver.
• Speaking of Teams, the Haymarket Bicycling Team officially arrived at QS. Jared Nieters loves it when a plan comes together. (And it looks like he's already got a new Orbea to replace the one that was attacked by a signpost last weekend - must be some perks to having your own shop.)
• I saw layzeesusan for the first time in a long while at Quicksilver. He scored a pyrrhic victory at QS: "I didn't get dropped, lapped, or catapulted towards the pavement." Winning comes in many shapes.
• If you like Artemis, you'll like JDAWG's updates. And if you don't like Artemis, you must at least like JDAWG. Who wouldn't like JDAWG?

Some results from the weekend:

• The VA Crit Champs results were distributed via email in an Excel File. If'n you didn't get them or don't want to open Excel, here they are as a PDF: Download va_state_crit_champs_results.pdf
• And here are results for the MABRA Track Champs over the weekend as well.
• I'm told by the good folks at WWVC that it will be a couple days before the Quicksilver results are up, but I'll point to them when they are.

So what are you doing this weekend?

Here's what the weekend holds:

• The Mount Joy Road Race is on Saturday up in PA. I know a few folks headed up for it, including Mark Lewandowski, who told me he hopes the race is "more joy than mount." He did this VeloRoute of the course and calculated that it's 555 feet of climbing for each 5.7 mile lap.
• Track Season at LVV kicks off on Saturday also. There's still time to pre-reg by 5pm tonight.
• Salem, VA plays host to the Dragon's Back XII MTB Race on Sunday. Given the forecast, I hope dragons like mud.
• All the calendars say that the U.S. 40K TT challenge up in Middletown, PA is on Sunday. But the BikeReg page says Sunday 5/6. If you're planning on going and this new date confuses you, better check with the promoter. If you know what's up, please post in the comments here.
• I'm not a master strategist on the bike, but "Go Fast, Turn Left" is a directive even I can follow. Which I plan to do, down in Richmond on Sunday. Weather permitting - race promoter Braden Govoni expects to make a final decision today about whether or not the race will forge on, or wash out.
• None of the above? You can always get your fix by watching Paris-Roubaix on Versus at 5pm on Sunday.

See you out there. And back here next week, with full updates of the racing and related activities.