Sad Weekend for Cycling

A Cat 4 woman died during the Proctor Road Race this weekend. She crashed and was almost immediately stuck by oncoming traffic. Her name was Beth Kobeszka, a recent grad of Northwestern and a member of the xXx Racing-AthletiCo team. I will say no more than that it is a tragedy.

On the lighter side, John and I got 5th and 9th in the road race. We decided to donate our winnings to Beth's family. Today John got in the winning breakaway and finished 5th. The race got a bit out of hand near the end, so no one else did particularly well, but John was able to finish fifth again.