Early Season

On Sunday, March 2, 2008, Indiana Regional Medical Center scored its first top-ten finish of the year in the Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic Criterium in Columbus, Ohio. This was a big-money criterium held in conjunction with the annual bodybuilding contest...and yes, the Governator was, in fact, in attendance.

Team member and current Allegheny County champion, Jake Lifson, was aggressive throughout the race, showing the IRMC team colors at the front throughout. Jake won a mid-race prime (i.e., a prize given out for the first person across the line which does not count toward the overall results), and put in a strong showing to finish 8th overall (out of almost 100 participants). In the process, Jake beat some of the best racers in the mid-Atlantic states, including several current and former national champions.

This race is but a taste of things to come, and, as always, we could not have done it without our sponsor, Indiana Regional Medical Center.

Jake leading the group below...

Race to any Place

IRMC Cyclocross and Road Team rider Steevo Cummings was involved with The Race To Any Place. This is a great cause that involved "cyclists who took 15-minute intervals in a six-hour race on stationary bikes in the lobby of the U.S. Steel Building to raise money for the Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society."

Everyone appreciates Steevo's time for such a great cause.

Philipsburg Cross Photos

Below are a few photos of Bill Elliston and Stephan Kincaid courtesy of Anthony Skorochod and his site CyclingCaptured.com from the Philipsburg, NJ race that IRMC Team rider Bill Elliston puts on. Good job, Bill. Lots of time and hard work go into putting on races! Thanks again to Anthony for the photos. Click HERE to visit Cyclingcaptured.com



Geronimo pre-race



Bill cornering...


Bill rockin' his way to victory!
Geronimo descending...

Men A
1 1:00:45.9 Bill Elliston Easton PA EK Racing/Indiana Regional Med. Ctr.
2 1:01:25.8 Stephan Kincaid Pottstown PA EK Racing/Indiana Regional Med. Ctr.
3 1:01:52.1 J Gabriel Lloyd New York City NY CRCA - REMAX
4 1:02:02.6 Ben Showman West Point NY United States Military Academy
5 1:02:46.1 Jeremy Gardner Ithaca NY
6 1:04:04.5 Andrew Crooks NY NY Endurex
7 1:04:28.7 Martin Jones High Bridge NJ Team Somerset/Van Dessel/Bike King
8 1:05:02.8 Frank Zgoda Sussex NJ Skylands Cycling
9 1:06:10.7 Brian Lariviere Rockaway NJ Team Bulldog/Campmor
10 1:06:42.1 William Irving Rosendale NY Table Rock Tours and Bicycle Shop
11 1:00:49.0 Partland JP NY NY Watchung wheelman
12 1:04:25.2 Keith Licata Andover NJ Team Bulldog/Campmor

Bits

A few weeks back, Horner and Megan went to Jingle Cross Rock . Todd Wells had a nice write up about the race and photo of he and Chris signing autographs. Thanks, Todd!

Click here for Todd's write up!


A bunch of photos from the team's great season will be posted shortly!

Nationals

Nationals had a bit of a change of unexpected plans. Upon arriving to KC, I received word that Chris was in the hospital. I'm sure you've heard, but Chris had an emergency appendectomy Saturday evening. Thankfully he is fine and this happened while not on the bike or traveling.



The long and short of it all...
Chris arrives Friday night, doesn't sleep because he's not feeling well and experiencing what he thought was lower abdominal pain. Goes to the hospital, they admit him, do some tests and realize he need his appendix removed. He spends the night in the hospital, released Sunday night and flies home Monday morning to Bend, OR. That was his experience for Nationals! Chris was extremely disappointed that he couldn't race, especially after I showed him photos and video clips from the race.

Megan was on hand to represent IRMC and raced extremely well. With the course lined with large crowds and the conditions being mud, snow and deceivingly deep frozen mud ruts, racing was a task at hand. Several riders would be racing and would have there wheels slide out as if some one pulled the rug out from underneath them. Megan stayed up right the entire race and was able to make nice ground. It is also nice to repeatedly hear over the loud speaker, "Here comes Megan Elliot of Indiana Regional Medical Center".

PezCycling Interview

PezCycling interviewed Horner while we were in Portland for the third series of the USGP. Chris discusses road racing and cross. Take a look. Thanks to Dave and Richard at Pez for the great job!

Part 1 of the Interview

Part 2 of the Interview

Portland

This was the Portland USGP.
Craig prepping for the race in the hotel room. Things get a bit hectic in the room when you have bikes, a whole mess load of wheel sets, bike stand, tools and your own luggage. It's a whole lot of fun, though. Thanks to PEDROS for the awesome repair stand and tools!

Megan warming up and staying out of the rain under the SRAM tent.

This upcoming weekend, IRMC Cyclocross team heads to Kansas City for cross nationals. Click on the image below to find more information on the race!