Capital Bicycle Racing Club

Uncle Sam Grand Prix is coming in hot just like ! Congrats to this guy for two big results this past weekend in Baltimore. Be like pat, race Uncle Sam 💵

Hey Everyone!!!

The Uncle Sam Grand Prix is just 2 weeks away! This event will host Races 2 and 3 of the CBRCX series. If you attended Nomad CX this year, you likely noticed how smoothly and efficiently the day ran. Thanks to the simplified race schedule and the fantastic support from our juniors and their parents, we aim to maintain this momentum for our upcoming races. Use the link to the volunteer sheet for sign-up. Race for free by contributing some labor of love.

https://volunteersignup.org/RWKPA

RD- Nick Groll

USGP25 Volunteer signup sheet

The CBRC series kicks off this Sunday at Nomad CX. Come ride some steep off camber sections followed with power flats! Great course to dip your toes in for the first time!!! What are you waiting for?

The NY Capital Region Road Race is Sunday, June 29th. We still need marshals. PM us !
FYI- Bushendorf has been paved!

Registration for Farmer's Daughter Gravel Grinder will OPEN (tomorrow) December 1, 2024 @ 9am AND In appreciation of your support in the last decade, I will be offering $10.00 off of your entry fee if you register by the end of the month!
Register for the Farmer's Daughter Gravel Grinder between 12/1 to 12/31/24 and pay $80.
January 1, 2025, registration increases to $90.00
We have the same great course back for 2025. Same venue at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Bountiful Bread is back with the “best” aid station on the planet. Same great after party with Chatham Brewery and the Rotary Club.
COOL Swag will be included in your entry fee!
All of the proceeds from Farmers Daughter go back into the community including supporting youth cycling in the Northeast.
Register here- [https://www.bikereg.com/farmers-daughter-gravel-grinder](https://www.bikereg.com/farmers-daughter-gravel-grinder...)
I hope to see all of you on May 18th

Weekend Roll: Toad Strangler Gravel Grinder — To Be Determined Journal Images from the 2023 Toad Strangler Gravel Grinder in New York State

Does this photo scream or is it just me ? 3hrs of some base miles for this crew today. Don’t forget to sign up for CBRC and the 2023 membership. Link in the bio!

17 year old Maya Healey of Niskayuna has been racing cyclocross since she was nine years old. Many years and bikes later, she is a high school senior balancing AP Chemistry, AP Spanish, spring mountain biking, a paying job, and a hybrid high school instruction program that has her spending part of every day in a hospital learning the medical field.

Maya is a fierce competitor on a MTB, being a key part of the Niskayuna Mohawk Mountain Goats, the NYS Champion NICA team for 2 years running.

Born in Rochester, Maya has a younger brother James who can also be seen on the CX and MTB courses. She likes Taylor Swift, driving any car, and will take a gap year after high school to see the world on a bike if all goes well.

10 year old Chase O'Donnell from Delmar is obsessed with riding bikes.....and that's a good thing.

Chase loved riding all kinds of bikes. Following his sister, Chase started racing cyclocross as soon as he was old enough.

Chase's first cyclocross race was the Nomad CX Time Trial in 2020. Last year Chase raced the CBRCX Series with some regional races mixed in. This year Chase has raced 19 times so far all around the Northeast.

After watching the pros bunny hop the barriers at Noho last year, Chase was determined to teach himself how to do it. He rode his bike non-stop the following weekend at Really Rad practicing on the kids-course barriers. For Christmas, his grandfather made him a set of break-away barriers that could be set at different heights- all the way up to the 40 cm regulation height.

Most days after school Chase recruits the neighborhood kids to come ride bikes, do jumps and hop barriers. A major goal of his was to hop the barriers at Noho this year. He did it! And keeps on hopping at every race he can.

Chase loves to draw and stack cards, building structures as tall as he can (before Larry the Labrador knocks it over).

11 year old Liddy Breslin from Voorheesville has been riding bikes (and trikes) since a few months after learning to walk. She was an inaugural member of the Flowriders, and showed huge improvement and confidence, and began racing in 2020. In 2021 she started riding cyclocross on her shiny and tiny Salsa 24", landing on a few podiums and rapidly gaining skills and confidence.

Her skills and confidence on bikes exploded after a week-long sleepaway camp at Kingdom Trails in Vermont. As noted by her father, "when we dropped Liddy at Kingdom, she was a good rider. When we picked her up a week later, I was struggling to keep up at every turn."

Liddy entered the 2022 cyclocross season with a renewed passion, and thanks to her CBRC coaches and mentors, continues to grow. With her racing coach, Brian White, Liddy has gotten faster and learned so much, and she is beyond pumped for her first US Cyclocross Nationals race.

Aside from riding bikes, Liddy is involved in musical theater, Girl Scouts, Irish step dancing, cross country and alpine skiing, diving, and many forms of art. She is a high honors student and an overall sweet, hilarious, and kind person

16 year old Haylee Johnson of West Sand Lake is one of the most humble, hardest working athletes I've ever met!

Haylee began riding her bike at age 6. She started on road rides using a road converted mountain bike with her family at age 10 and quickly upgraded to her first drop bar road bike.

The following year Haylee rode several local group rides per week (many with the Mohawk Hudson Cycling Club). At age 12 she completed her first century ride among several other long-distance rides and became more focused on her endurance and strength.

Haylee’s racing career began in 2019 at age 13 with the Capital Region Road Race. This same year she joined CBRC and raced a full season of cyclocross. At this time Haylee began more structured training under the guidance of Coach Andy and since has continued to race each year both road and cyclocross, amassing many podium finishes along the way.

Most recently Haylee accepted a position on the Finkraft Junior Cycling Team (racing cyclocross) and has had a spectacular season racing as a 1st year UCI junior. She will be finishing up her season with a two-week racing block in Europe.

Haylee is an accomplished skier, vocalist, holds a taekwondo black belt, and has maintained high honor roll status throughout high school.

Haylee focuses on ‘finding her Zen’ before every race. This entails a couple minutes of silence and clearing her mind of everything but her mission just before she leaves for staging.