Philly Week

June 12th, 2007

It was a successful week of racing for the Nerac Pro Cycling team.  The week started off with the fouth round of the USA Crits Series at the CSC Invitational in Arlington Virginia.  Going into the event the team was 6th overall in the National series hoping for a good result to move up the team compitition.  Nerac finished four riders with Todd Yezefski earning the top spot for the team in 19th.  This result along with having three other finishers on the day moved the team into 5th place in the series.  Click for complete series standings.  The following day the team headed off to Lancaster Pennsylvania to take part in the first leg of the Commerce Bank Tripple Crown of Cycling.  On this first day of racing the team ran into some bad luck and was unable to finish a rider.  There was however some good news on the day as Chris Jones finished off the Mt. Hood Classic in twelve place overall.  See full results here.  The second stop of the Commerce Bank Tripple Crown of Cycling was the Redding Classic.  The team did much better on this demanding course and finished four riders on the day including Chris Jones in 25th.  The final race of the series was the Philadelphia International Championships.  It is a 156 mile race through downtown Philly.  This was Team Nerac’s best performance ever in the event.  Finishing five riders with Chris Jones in the lead group finishing in 27th place.

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