LITTLE 500

Bloomington, Indiana. Home of Indiana University, 40,000 co-eds and one of the most fantastic single day events in cycling: Little 500.

For those of you not familiar with "Little 5", it's a 200 lap, single speed, coaster brake'd team race that is held on a cinder brick 450m track (think old track and field stadiums, no banking & hard pack dirt like surface). It's a team event and each team is composed of 4 riders typically. Over the 200 laps, the teams switch riders, switch bikes and basically do whatever they can to get through the race as fast as possible, while not going down in the in between.

If you've never been or much less, ever heard of this 'little' race, I understand. If you ever have the chance to go, I highly recommend it. While the middle can get a bit monotonous, the finishes are spectacular, not to mention the fact that I've seen some of the most incredible crashes on that track. Thank goodness that everyone I've seen go down has come away with minimal injuries.

The big news of the weekend though, was that the Cutters team, coached by our own illustrious Jason Fowler, won the race after a 5 team final lap sprint. Congrats boys!

Needless to say, no riding for me this weekend, but a great weekend for bike racing none the less.