Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Cycling TV of Roughest Crit Bike Race in Florida

 

"Cycling TV Shows Leonardo Martinez from Team Cocos Won In A Super-Human Solo Breakaway In The Rough and Tough Brooksville Criterium Pro12 Race"

On Saturday, October 16, 2010, Laura DeWitt, one of the owners of the Get Healthy food stores, along with Florida Cycling put great effort into organizing a beautiful, but difficult criterium bike race in downtown Brooksville, Florida.  This criterium cycling race drew a huge crowd of spectators who enjoyed a great day of cycling racing and witnessed how the best competitive cyclists of all ages and categories in the state climbed over cobblestone roads and hit downhill corners at over 35mph on their road bikes.

This 1.1-mile, 6-corner criterium course is considered one of the roughest and toughest courses in the state because of the cycling racing skills needed to hit downhill corners at high speeds and the leg strength and endurance needed to climb a long, difficult cobblestone hill many times during the race.

Here in the state of Florida, the Florida cycling racers wait for opportunities like this to show off their bicycle racing skills, leg speed and strength, especially when the course is difficult, dangerous, and rough.

That is what Leonardo Martinez racing for Miami's Team Cocos did. He showed off all his racing skills, leg speed and strength that he has developed during his long career as a cyclist to conquer this difficult cycling racing course and win in a super human solo breakaway against some of the best criterium racers in the state.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Road Bikes Cornering Through Downtown Bartow, FL

 

In the Sunday Criterium cycling race of the 2010 Tour de Tow, in Bartow, Florida David Winston and Derek Bennett launched an attack in the first minutes of the race and went on an early two-man breakaway, opening a gap that got bigger and bigger every lap, leaving the cycling group behind in a desperate chase and fighting for third place in the race.

The competition for third place was so intense that it broke the long line of cyclists in the main peloton into pieces. What was at first a long single-file line of cyclists chasing the breakaway at high bicycle speeds ended up as little chase groups scattered all around the course competing for the last spot on the podium and last positions of the pay-outs.

Winston and Derek managed to stay on the breakaway for the whole race, coming down to a two-man final sprint, where Winston took the win, Derek took second place and third place went to Joel Chavez, the Chavez Cycling video cameraman who won the sprint in the first chase group.

“Winston David Wins The Sunday Criterium
of the Tour de Tow in an Exciting
Breakaway and Final Sprint!”