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Entries from June 2009

Race Across America rolling across country, no Lancaster team

June 18th, 2009 · No Comments

The first riders began the 3,000-mile Race Across America this week and unlike last year - and, hopefully, next year - there was no Lancaster riders registered.
Last year, Team Cycle Smart, led by local bicycling advocate Mike Ridgeway, did the epic race. Ridgeway said the two-man-two-woman team is sitting this one out. They plan to […]

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Tags: ultra-marathon · Race Across America · Lancaster · cycling · sports

Chad Gerlach feature in Intell

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

In case you missed it in Saturday’s Intelligencer Journal, there was a feature article on bike-racer-turned-homeless-addict-turned-bike-racer-again Chad Gerlach. He was in town for Saturday’s Race Avenue Criterium and using the Lancaster race as a warm up to Sunday’s Philadelphia International championship race.
At the criterium Saturday, Gerlach, of the Amore Vita Professional Cycling Team, was narrowly edged out of […]

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Tags: Lancaster · Philadelphia · races · professional · cycling · sports

Landis coming home (maybe and almost)

June 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will be home, or at least in the area this weekend. He is arguably the biggest name racing in Sunday’s TD Bank Philadelphia Championship race.
Landis, who lives in Southern California, is back racing this year with his OUCH Pro Cycling Team after a two-year, well-chronicles hiatus from the sport.
The 114-mile men’s […]

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Tags: Floyd Landis · Philadelphia · Lancaster · ride · cycling · races · sports