15-year-old Bellevue resident Megan Doherty scored two age-group victories at the USA Cycling Amateur Road Championships on June 30 – July 3, in Louisville, KY. Megan blazed the 21 km time trial course in 32:52.57, ninety seconds faster than the nearest competitor. She won the 54 km National Championship Road Race in Louisville’s Cherokee Park […]
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Friday evening was the official Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome renaming ceremony, as well as the track racing season opener. Remarks from family members were brief, no doubt as Jerry would have wished, and the evening’s emphasis was on racing. Racing at the Velodrome is on single speed fixed gear bikes with no brakes. Racing happens
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The Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome at Marymoor Park is a world unto itself, and if you’ve never been you are missing out on an important part of Seattle’s cycling culture. During the summer race season, Friday nights feature fast racing and a beer garden, with emcee duties carried out by Phil “Bilko” Stephens. Phil grew
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This is the final installment in a four-part series about a few of our outstanding Seattle-area junior bicycle racers. According to coach David Richter, Snohomish High School senior Thorsten Askervold has significant potential to develop into an elite-level cyclist: “He’s the best of all of them right now…Thorsten possesses the drive that championship athletes have.
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Awesome promotional video about the excitement every Friday night (during the summer) at Marymoor Velodrome (Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome):
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