Here’s a nice video of the Northbrook CX race from last year. It was cold that day (I think it snowed at one point) but what a great course… especially in its first year.

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We’re still working to get the race back this year but things look iffy at that moment. Stay tuned for more!

Well-Fit is hosting a Cyclocross Roundtable covering all things cyclocross on Aug. 13, at 7 p.m., at the Well-Fit Training Center on 1700 W. Hubbard Street.

The panel will include:

1. Jason Knauff, the director of the 2009 Chicago Cyclocross Cup,
2. Former cyclocross newbie and 2008 Category 4 Cup champion Eileen Neville,
3. Cat 1 cyclocross competitor extrodinaire and coach Ted Ramos,
4. The national rep from Javelin Cycles, and
5. Someone from Get a Grip to discuss retro-fitting your bike for cyclocross.

The meeting is open to all clubs and teams, and there will be food and beverages.

For more information contact Well-Fit at [email protected].

Cross weather!
Happy traing from the CCC

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Based on the training you having already been doing coach Brian Conant will create for you a 1 time, 3 month training plan with HR or power based workouts.

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Hi all, and welcome to the 2009 Chicago Cyclocross Cup!

The weather has been more cross-like this entire summer so we hope you’re good and ready for plenty of fall weather action. We again tentatively have 10 races lined up for you this year with one major venue change, and possibly 2 others… more on that later.

Please check around the new site and let us know what you think. We’ll be adding and updating the site as we go along this year, so please be patient. If you have experience with web programming and want to help out, please contact us offline at [email protected]

The ChiCrossCup is all about you, the racers… and we’d like to make this site more of a community than just a bunch of dates and locations… so we’ve added commenting ability on certain pages. Please be respectful and realize your comments can be viewed by anyone and everyone. If we find users abusing this functionality those comments will be removed and users will be blocked from future commenting… so keep it clean and friendly… we’re all out there to have a good time!

If you’d like us to link to your blog, flickr/picasa account, or YouTube/Vimeo channel please let us know. We’ll try but we won’t be able to link in everyone and reserve the right to remove any links we don’t find appropriate.

-The Chicago Cross Cup team and promoters