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Georgetown to host bike races in May
Big news, bike racing fans.
Come May, bicyclists will zip around downtown Georgetown during the Georgetown Grand Cycling Race in the Streets.
Eight hundred cyclists, including professional and Olympic cyclists from around the country, and 5,000 spectators are expected for the races on May 19-20.
The headline event, a criterium race staged by Holland Racing on a USA Cycling-sanctioned course, will double as the state criterium championship weekend for the Texas Bicycle Racing Association. A criterium is a closed-circuit race on a 1 or 2-mile course.
The 1-mile downtown course will include the courthouse square and eight high-speed turns in a double-loop circuit.
Among the professional cyclists expected to compete are David Wenger, current U.S. elite criterium champion, on Super Squadra Team; Heath Blackgrove, former Olympian from New Zealand, on Elbowz Yamaha Cycling Team; Brant Speed, current Texas state elite time trial champion; Jen McRae, 2008 U.S. pro women’s national criterium champion; Stefan Rothe from Germany, current Texas state road race champion; and Ian Dille, currently ranked fifth in the U.S. in criterium Cat 1, on Super Squadra Team.
Also planned are a non-competitive ride with routes of varying distances for recreational riders on May 19.
Holland Racing, the company that puts on the weekly Driveway Series, Hammerfest, and the Tour of Austin, will organize the event. For more information go here.
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