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103 USA Cycling riders complete in Green River Road Race
Six states represented. National Champions Curtis Tolson and Traci Huber are first here. Texas Roadhouse team, Louisville, KY, take first in 3 of 5 events. Adair Sheriff's Deparment, Adair EMTs, and especially Coach Jenifer Huff praised for success of first USA Cycling national event in the history of Adair County. Many photos attached. Mike Hewitt Race Results link below.
By Mike Hewitt
In the cold, windy weather on Saturday, March 17, 2007, the Green River Road Race hosted by the Lindsey Wilson College Cycling Team, 103 USA Cycling riders from 6 states started the event.
James Hebert came all the way from Fort Collins, Colorado and finished 4th in the Category 4/5 event.
National Champions Curtis Tolson and Traci Huber and several members of their Texas Roadhouse team came to race in Columbia and came away with 3 first place finishes out of the 5 events.
The riders really liked the course. Many said it was one of the toughest they had ridden but they would return to race in Columbia again.
Jenifer Huff and her volunteers did a wonderful job of organizing the event and the Adair County Sheriff's Department with Deputy Tracy McCarol serving as race marshal, made the event one of the safest in the series so far. David Hansel and Michael "Spanky" Stewart of the Adair County EMS patiently stood by, and fortunately did not have to see action.
Lindsey Wilson College Cycling Teammembers figuredprominently in the results.
John Stevens, who rides for Team Barbasol in USA Cycling races, finished 4th in the Pro-1/2/3 race. Team members Ben Richardson finished 11th, Ben Weatherly finished 12th and Greg Powell finished 16th in the Category 3-4 race.
Jean Schneider finished 4th in the Womens race which moved her up to 3rd overall in the series. Samantha Hadley finished 9th overall.Lindsey Wilson College faculty member Chris Schmidt finished 25th in the Category 4/5 race.
Tom Waggener of Columbia came in 16th in the 4/5 category.
Robert Anderson arrived back from Iraq on leave just in time to see his son Kyle win his second race of the series. Kyle's grandfather drove 6 hours from Lancaster, OH to watch him compete in Columbia, KY.
To see Mike Hewitt's results chart showing all winners Click Here
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Green River Road Race 2007: Team Cyclers Cafe here today
2007-03-17 - Near LaGrange - Photo By Craig Dooley. Several teams, will grace the Green River Road Course today, including Team Cyclers Cafe/Humana, including Joff Hoyle, front; Tom Brockman, center; and Cyclers Cafe Owner, Joe Solm. This shot was taken March 3, 2007, at Round 1, near Lagrange, KY. The ambulance in the background is a must at cycle meets. Adair County EMS Director Terry Akin said that he will post at least one ambulance at Shepherd School Day. "They (race organizers) said that we were almost sure to be needed," Akin said. There is an element of danger in cycling races, not the least of which are dogs, particularly those breeds which chase. Dog owners along the race course are urged to keep animals away from passing cyclists.
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GR Road Race officials set up registration at Shepherd School
2007-03-17 .
Barbara Saive and Mike Hewitt were the first people on the ground at Shepherd School this morning, preparing for registration for the Green River Road Race. A change in the start point, from Purdy Separate Baptist Church to Shepherd School caused some confusion this morning, bu signs have been posted to send cyclist from the church to Shepherd. The finish line will be at Purdy SBIC, and follows the steep ascent up Little Cake Hill less which crests just a few yards from the finish line. Hewitt was pleased with the Columbia course. He said that the co-host, Lindsey Wilson Road Cycling Team, has a very high reputation across the country.
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Louisville photographer, touring cyclists GR Road Race finish line
2007-03-18 - Purdy, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
Gary and Diane Rose, Columbia, , and Photographer Craig Dooley, Louisville, of Kentucky Backroads Photography, at the finish line of the Green River Road Race. The Roses are bike touring enthusiasts, who like to take rides in Adair County and also travel with guided groups in other states. Rose said that the tours usually entail trips of 60-75 miles per day. He said that he would use his bike more, but the absence of bike trails along roads like KY 206 make bike travel more difficult in Adair County. Rose is Director of Respiratory Therapy and is enthusiastic about the health benefits of biking. Photographer Dooley had set up to capture photographs of cyclist crossing the finish line at Purdy Separate Baptist Church, where cyclists were generally exhausted after the brutal climb up Rocky Hollow Hill south of Little Cake.
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Guarding the Knifley Turn for Green River Road Racers
2007-03-18 - Northern Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
When their friend, Lindsey Wilson College Cycling Coach Jenifer Huff, called them to duty, Jenny Myers, left, and her sister Ann Young, right, enlisted as Green River Road Race officials. Their post: the intersection of KY 551, the Knifley Road, and KY 76, Elkhorn Road in downtown Knifley.. Their mission: to stop traffic and make sure the racers made the critical turn safely to head east over Dunbar Hill onward through Edith and Neatsville. In real life, Jenny is librarian at Adair County High School and Mrs. Chad Myers. Ann is Guidance Counselor at ACHS and Mrs. Toby Young.
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Green River Road Race 2007: Adair County EMS standing by
2007-03-19 . Adair County EMS stood by for the accident which never happened. David Hansel, NR EMT, far side, and Michael "Spanky" Stewart, NR EMT-P, waited at the finish line in the Purdy Separate Baptist Church parking lot for any possible call. On most races of the scope of the Green River Road Race, there is at least one ambulance run necessary, but Mike Hewitt, U.S. Cycling representative, said the GR Road Race was one of the safest he ever witnessed--a major reason why he hopes other races are staged here.
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GR Road Racer 2007: Chris Schmidt, Team Lindsey Wilson
2007-03-19 - Shepherd School Drive - Photo By Ed Waggener. Chris Schmidt Bib #492, rode for Team Lindsey Wilson College. Here, before the race, at the Shepherd School Drive. Schmidt competed in Category 4/5. Schmidt is a former Lindsey Wilson Cycling Coach and an enthusiastic booster of cycling in Adair County.
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Lindsey Wilson's Skiles Keith raced for Texas Roadhouse
2007-03-19 - On the Purdy to Purdy loop - Photo By Craig Dooley, Kentucky Backroads Photography.
Louisvillian J. Skiles Keith, is a student at Lindsey Wilson College, on a cycling scholarship. In the Green River Road race, he rode for Team Texas Roadhouse, Louisville.
Photographer Craig Dooley knows Skiles Keith personally. Keith's mother was his eighth grade teacher. Keith finished 3rd in the Pro 1/2 category in the Green River Road race.
Keith has been racing for years and is very passionate about the sport. For a time, he lived in Belgium and rode in some extremely hard races over there.
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LWC's Jean Schneider resting before big race
2007-03-19 - Shepherd School Drive - Photo By Ed Waggener. Jean Schneider a star women's cyclist for Lindsey Wilson College, rested on handlebars before the start of the women's category in the Green River Road Race, which started from here, Shepherd School Drive, Saturday, March 17, 2007.
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Deputy McCarol was marshal for race
2007-03-19 - Greater Absher, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener. Top riders in Cat 1/2/3 were headed by Adair County Deputy Sheriff and Race Marshall Tracy McCarol as they come out of the intersection of Snake Creek Road and KY 551, headed for downtown Absher/Egypt/Holmes toward Knifley. US Cycling official Mike Hewitt, Louisville, KY, had high praise for the ACSO. "They helped make this one of the safest events we've had," he said.
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Tom Waggener: Columbia rider finishes 50 miles in 2:37
2007-03-19 - Near finish line - Photo By Linda Waggener.
Tom Waggener, Columbia, KY, wearing bib No. 498, completed the 2-lap, total of 50 mile Category 4/5 in 2 hours, 37 minutes. Waggener rides for Games 'n Flix, a Bowling Green, KY team.
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Green River Road Race 2007: Leaving Shepherd School
2007-03-19 - KY 206 at Shepherd School - Photo By Pen Waggener. Nineteen cyclists start out from Shepherd School on Saturday morning on the first lap of a 75 mile journey that will take them three times through Christine, across Snake Creek Road, up KY 551 to Knifley, across KY 76 to Neatsville, and up Little Cake Road to Purdy Separate Baptist Church.
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