Cyclocross Success

It's been a busy couple of weekends for the Elitewave Cyclocrossers!

At both Starcrossed and the Rad Racing GP Sarah finished in 9th place after battleing back from being sick for the previous 3 weeks. Her races were strong considering how much training she missed. She was able to duplicate her performance from last year in both races. Jaymie McGowan finished 20th at Starcrossed and 18th at Rad Racing. Jaymie suffered from a series of hard crashes at Starcrossed but stayed upright and smooth for the second race.

This past weekend was the first race in the Seattle Cyclocross series. Sarah won the race by just 6 seconds over multiple National Cross champ veteran Anne Knapp.



STARCROSSED RESULTS
1 Sue Butler MonavieCannondale.com USA19710912 38:02
2 Wendy Simms Kona CAN19720522 38:05
3 athy Sherwin Velo Bella - Kona USA19730527 38:50
4 Dawn Anderson Everti/Oak Bay Bikes CAN19780709 38:50
5 Josie Jacques-Maynes Specialized/KMC pb Cal Giant USA19760404 38:50
6 Emily Van Meter River City Bicycles USA19770915 38:50
7 Wendy Williams River City Bicycles USA19690306 39:14
8 Sarah Kerlin HRS / Rock Lobster USA19740930 39:22
9 Stewart Sarah Total Restoration CAN19701203 39:40
10 Rhonda Mazza Team S&M USA19740204 39:44
20 109 Jaymie McGowan Oak Bay Bikes CAN19760704 42:50


STEILACOOM RESULTS
1 SIMMS Wendy KonaCAN 0:40:49
2 BUTLER Susan Monaviecannondale.Com USA 0:40:55
3. DOMBROSKI Amy Velo Bella - Kona USA 0:42:04
4 WILLIAMS Wendy River City Bicycle Team USA 0:42:06
5 KERLIN Sarah Hrs /Rock Lobster USA 0:42:36
6 VAN METER Emily River City Bicycles USA 0:42:46
7 MAZZA Rhonda Team S&M USA 0:43:08
8 ANDERSON Dawn Everti/ Oak Bay Bikes CAN 0:43:08
9 STEWART Sarah Total Restoratoin CAN 0:43:08
10 JACQUES-MAYNES Josie Specialized/Kmc Pb Cal Giant USA 0:43:10
18 MCGOWAN Jaymie Oak Bay Bikes CAN 0:45:13

Alex Finishes 9th at World Championships

Elitewave's Alex Wrubleski (Webcor) finished 9th in the elite World Championships on the road just moments ago in Varese, Italy. The top 10 finish was redemption for Alex, who crashed hard at the Olympics in Beijing earlier this summer. I think the performance today is only a return to form for Alex - not a peak performance. In the next four years, she is capable of becoming a World Champion. For 2009, she has gathered together some of the key ingredients to be successful - a good team (Columbia) and good racing calendar that allows her to properly compete against the best riders in the World. Alex has done very well to perform at the World Championships at the end of such a long season in a less than ideal competitive program that often forced her to put the needs of the national team ahead of her own. Alex will now look forward to a little down time before setting a new course for herself in the sport. Alex has shown that she has the potential to be a champion. Congrats. on a solid performance at road Worlds Alex!

Season Highlights for Alex Wrubleski: 2 top 5 finishes at UCI World Cups. National Road Champion. Beijing Olympic Team Member. 9th World Cycling Championships.

14th Edition of Dan's Camp

Official dates for the 14th edition of Dan's Camp are:

April 19-24th Technical Camp
This camp is focused on personalized technical feedback.
Only 16 spots available.
If you are interested in attending this camp, please email dan@elitewave.com

May 2-10th Training Camp
This camp is focused on endurance training. This camp is very challenging! Only 30 spots available. Please note that returning campers have guarantteed spots in this camp until February 2, 2009. Unclaimed spots will be offered through a lottery system.

Registration forms for the training camp will be available by November.

Registration deadline January 26th.

Elitewave's Alex Wrubleski Riding for Team Columbia in 2009

Congratulations to Alex who recently signed with one of the best professional cycling teams in the World - Team Columbia. She will begin training with the team at a camp in Spain this November. Between now and then, Alex will represent Canada at the Tour of Toscana and the World Road Cycling Championships. The press release from Alex's new team is below:

release by High Road Sports Inc.
September 12, 2008 (San Luis Obispo, CA) - Team Columbia, owned and managed by High Road Sports Inc., is pleased to announce its preliminary roster for the 2009 season. To date in 2008 the team has won 133 races between the men and the women’s teams, with 77 wins for the men and 56 wins for the women.“After such a successful season, we don’t want to make a lot of changes within the team,” says Team Manager Rolf Aldag. “Our riders showed a lot of courage and motivation throughout the season and we saw the team grow closer together as the season went on. We want to stay focused on developing young talented athletes under the direction of experienced veterans, with the ambition of having just as much success as we have achieved in 2008.”As of mid September, the men’s team numbers 25 and includes:Michael Barry, Marcus Burghart, Mark Cavendish, John Devine, Bernhard Eisel, Linus Gerdemann, Bert Grabsch, Andre Greipel, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Adam Hansen, Greg Henderson, George Hincapie, Kim Kirchen, Craig Lewis, Thomas Lovkvist, Tony Martin, Marco Pinotti, Morris Possoni, Frantisek Rabon, Vicente Reynes, Michael Rogers, Marcel Sieberg, Kanstantsin Sivtsov, Mark Renshaw and Michael Albasini.The women’s team, currently ranked number one in the world and leading the women’s UCi World Cup Series will also make very few changes. The ten riders currently confirmed for 2009 are Mara Abbott, Kim Anderson, Judith Arndt, Kate Bates, Chantal Beltman, Emilia Fahlin, Luise Keller, Ina-yoko Teutenberg, Linda Villumsen and Alex Wrubleski.“The team is not final and we will see a few slight changes over the next month, but we are very happy with the line up so far and we are already looking forward to 2009,” added Aldag.For more information about Team Columbia visit www.highroadsports.com.