Bill Mason, Donavon Hottman and Bill Wells traveled to Iowa City for a weekend of racing on May 5th and 6th.

Here’s a quick recap from Bill Mason:

Bill Wells, Donavon Hottman, Bill Mason road in the Old Capital Omnium in Iowa City, Iowa on May 5 and 6. Consisted of a morning 39 mile RR followed by an afternoon 13 mile TT on May 5 and then a .07 mile 20 lap afternoon Crit at the University of Iowa Campus on May 6. All three of us raced in 60+. This year was the 35th running year of the Crit.

RR course was a rolling hill loop in Amish country so had to dodge horse buggies and “road apples”. Wind was high going out and start confusion had us three trailing the field from the beginning. 40+, 50+, and 60+ all had the same scheduled start time but the actual start was to be slightly staggered. However several of our 60+ participants went with the 50+ group, so we chased most of the race.

The TT was a single lap of the RR course. The Crit course had one 10 plus degree block long uphill which was a killer (had to do it 20 times). 40+ and above raced all together so quite a large field (65 or more).

The TT place points available for Omnium for some reason were less than half of those for RR and Crit places.

Our results were as follows:

RR
Hottman 4th
Mason 5th
Wells 6th

Donavon and I fought out the uphill sprint finish, but as usual he won out by a bike length.

TT
Mason 2nd
Hottman 5th
Wells 6th

Crit
Mason 4th
Hottman 5th
Wells 7th

Omnium
Mason 4th 35 points
Hottman 5th 32 points
Wells 6th 25 points

Congrats to Bill, Bill and Donavon for great results!
The trio travels all around the region looking for competition throughout the season. Iowa City sounds like a great event with good payouts for the top riders. We may be sending an even larger team contingent to Iowa next year!