Racing kicked off in the Midwest Conference this weekend with the usual inaugural races hosted by Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky. Everyone showed their early-season fitness and tested their legs at the short team time trial and challenging road race on Saturday and at the crit on Sunday. Thirty teams contested the time trial on a gently rolling course then a near-conference-record 246 riders took to the start line for a brutally-rolling road race course, of which the men’s A field rode for 75 miles. Alex Meyer (Wisconsin-Madison) found victory in that race while freshman Coryn Rivera (Marian) won the women’s A race.
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