The OUCH Pro Cycling Team continues to split up in order to take part in multiple domestic races this season.
This coming weekend some members of the squad will go East to compete in the Air Force Cycling Classic in Arlington, VA.
BartlesvilleLIVE notes Floyd Landis will be going to Tulsa, Oklahoma to participate in “Tulsa Tough”:
In addition to the Tulsa Tough races, Floyd Landis will be doing a free to the public presentation on his BHR hip resurfacing, which he received shortly after the 2006 Tour de France. The presentation will be at City Hall, One Technology Center, from noon-1:30 p.m., Thursday, May 28.
“I’m really looking forward to it,” said Landis. “I’ve never raced in Oklahoma, and I hear great things about this race.”
Back from near extinction The TD Bank Philadelphia Cycling Championship will take place June 5-7, and according to Bicycle Therapy Floyd Landis will be there to race. He is slated to attend a “hot party” at the bike shop on Friday June 5:
The big Philly International Pro Cycling Championship is on and we’re celebrating with a pre-race party at the shop. Friday, June 5th, from 6PM – 8PM. Co-hosted by SRAM and Team OUCH Presented by Maxxis, this party is sure to be hot!
Come hang out with the OUCH/Maxxis Team including Floyd Landis, and the experts from SRAM and Specialized. Food and refreshments will be provided – thank you to Villa Di Roma and Victory Brewing Company – first come, first served.
Frankly, the Villa di Roma pizza alone would be enough to ge me there. 😉
It’s also been announced that Landis will take part in The Nature Valley Classic June 10-14 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The StarTribune.com writes a short piece on the upcoming race.
As always stay tuned for results from these races as well as any other upcoming events we find out about.
Press release just received from OUCH with details of this weekend’s racing:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 27, 2009
OUCH Presented by Maxxis splits with squads in
Tulsa and D.C. this weekend.
Oakland, CA – The OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis will be splitting its roster between two NRC races this coming weekend.
The team will send a four-man squad to contest the three-day Tulsa Tough, beginning Friday evening. Sprinter John Murphy will be the team’s go-to guy for the three-criterium series, with ample support from teammates Roman Kilun, Floyd Landis and Bobby Lea.
The Tough is run on three different courses around Tulsa, Oklahoma. The first evening features a technical figure-eight course in the city’s Blue Dome District. Saturday’s course is a six-turn, L-shaped affair in central Tulsa, while Sunday’s course will take the teams around a more standard four-corner route down along the Arkansas River in the Riverview area.
Heading East
A six-man squad will head for the Eastern Seaboard to contest the U.S. Air Force Cycling Classic races, starting with the Clarendon Cup Saturday, followed by the circuit race Sunday, both in and around Arlington, Virginia.
Leading the charge will be Karl Menzies, who won the Sunny King Criterium earlier this month, and Canadian fast man Andrew Pinfold, who also had a strong Southeast crit week in late April and early May. They’ll be joined by two-time NRC points champion Rory Sutherland, fresh off his third consecutive overall title at the Joe Martin Stage Race.
Team captain Tim Johnson will again guide proceedings out on the road, with support from young talents Brad White and Jonathan Chodroff.
Saturday, the team will face the classic Clarendon Cup course, a technical five-turn layout near the Clarendon metro stop. Sunday, the riders will complete 12 laps of a hilly 12.5 km circuit that borders the area around the Pentagon, rolls past the U.S. Air Force Memorial, and ends in Crystal City.
OUCH Presented by Maxxis for the Tulsa Tough:
Roman Kilun, USA
Floyd Landis, USA
Bobby Lea, USA
John Murphy, USA
OUCH Presented by Maxxis for the USAF Cycling Classic:
Jonathan Chodroff, USA
Tim Johnson, USA
Karl Menzies, TAS
Andrew Pinfold, CAN
Rory Sutherland, AUS
Brad White, USA
