Recap/Results

The 2006 Carousel Volkswagen Jingle Cross is in the books. The results are posted on our website at www.JingleCrossRock.com. Some of the facts:

1. A Pro Tour rider, a 5x World Mountain Bike Champion with nearly 30 US National titles, A 6th place World Juniors Cross Rider, an Olympic Cyclist, and multiple current and former U.S. National Champions
   
2. In one race, 3 current reigning U.S. National Champions in Sunday's Casey's/HandiMart Elite women's field.
   
3. A huge cat 3/4 race both days with 60 riders on Rock 2
   
4. I've heard estimations of 500 spectators for the final Elite events of the day. (I have no clue because I couldn't look up to see).
   
5. Although we haven't got exact numbers yet, we estimate that we raised somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000 for the Children's Hospital of Iowa

SAT RACE PHOTOS | SUN RACE PHOTOS

A huge thanks go to Todd Gillihan for his work on the hill to make that course ridable....Zugs, Kim Sheets, Dan Schaffer, and countless others for coming thru on the course construction...John Olney for stopping in the middle of his pre-race day ride for stopping and helping build the course...Team Skin (Darcy and Jean and several others) for being all over the place...Mark Guthart for being the best damn referee.... Period!...and a huge thanks to my secretary Linda Shalla who none of you know. Before Saturday, she knew nothing about bike racing but was on the computer the whole weekend doing registration, results, etc, etc.

Make no mistake...This was a joint effort by all of you and the cycling clubs and teams of Iowa have something to be very proud of...Team Skin, DICE, 2 Bee, Atlas, ICCC all pitched in.

IF YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY, PLEASE GIVE A GREAT BIG THANKS TO OUR TITLE SPONSOR CAROUSEL VOLKSWAGEN AND PAT LIND, THE MAN WHO RUNS THAT
GREAT DEALERSHIP. THEY DID AN AMAZING JOB AND WE'RE A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH.

I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody so please forgive me. But I'm going to sleep now...see you next year!

FULL RESULTS at www.JingleCrossRock.com

John Meehan



RACE VIDEO

Description

Family oriented

Distance - Based on time, not distance

This is a World Class Cyclocross event with races for Juniors, Masters, Single Speeders, Beginners, Intermediate, and Elite riders. In all, there are 23 races over 2 days with 11 main races on each day and an additional Free Grinch's Kids race on Sunday the 26th of November. Tour de France rider Chris Horner of Davitamon-Lotto will be here to race the elite races on each day. But we want to bring out the average recreational rider. The beginners/recreational event is geared to the average RAGBRAIer and will have an additional prize drawing for cool stuff. The ride is based on time, not distance....you ride for 35 minutes whether it's 2 laps 5 laps or ten laps and that's all you have to do!...and you help us raise money for the children's hospital of Iowa. Come see the Cycling Expo and Showcase with all kinds of ccol cycling products and bikes.

Route

The Johnson County Fairgrounds. Race courses are on our website at www.JingleCrossRock.com

Registration

Registration is held through BikeReg.com. YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER IN ORDER TO BE ENTERED IN THE DRAWING FOR OVER $3000 WORTH OF CYCLING PRODUCTS AND SWAG!

Contact

John Meehan

john-j-meehan@uiowa.edu

319 248-0727