Big D Cycling attended the Jesse Blancarte Time Trial with strong numbers on Sunday, May 25. Eighteen, wearing Big D green, attended the event, contributing to our KBAR campaigns for the season. We had eight competitors earn podium finishes in seven different categories. Check out the times posted and results at the Kansas Cycling Association website!

Our junior team may be small in numbers, but, if these youngsters had power meters, the computers would likely show normalized power averages stating, “Are you sure you are a junior?” Greg Vaught escorted his son, Nigel Vaught, around the course during the junior’s time trial. At different points during the time trial, it appeared Greg was struggling to hang onto Nigel’s wheel (Nigel was getting up to 27 miles per hour into the turn around approach), while he was yelling at his son, “I’m off the back. The turn around is just ahead, Nigel.” Nigel Vaught and Peter Whalen take first and second, respectively, in their Junior 9-14 year old category!

Further to the North, Kurt Wilson cut his teeth on the Snake Alley Criterium and the 36th Annual Melon City Criterium in Iowa. If you want to see a wicked climb on a crooked road over bricks, google Snake Alley and click on Images. Wilson gained valuable criterium experience against stiff competition, which should lay the ground for good results in the upcoming criteriums in the KBAR series.