UM Cycling @ 2023 Road Nationals - 10th overall

2023 Road Cycling Nationals were held this weekend in Albuquerque. The time trials (TT) were held this past weekend on Friday, the road race on Saturday and the crits on Sunday.

Cycling is a club sport at Michigan. I was unaware of the club when I was a student, but they've been around at least since the late 90s and probably well before that.

Full results

For those that don't know:

• The time trial is a race against the clock. There's an individual TT (ITT) and a team TT (TTT). Everyone rides the same course and the best time wins.
• The road race is what it sounds like. The course is in the Sandias east of Albuquerque.
• The criterium is a timed race. Racers complete a ~1 mile circuit as many times as they can in about 70 minutes. First to cross the line wins.

Interestingly, they put cat 1-5 together (1 is top, 5 is newbie) for all the races.

Team Omnium: 10th overall.

Women:

• Sarah Duclos (cat 3) finished 2nd overall  after taking 5th in the road race (2nd cat 3) and 3rd in the crit (1st cat 3).
• Elizabeth Callison (cat 3) finished 17th overall after taking 13th in the road race (4th cat 3) and 17th (4th cat 3) in the crit.

Men:

• Bryce Natter (cat 2) finished 46th overall after taking 64th in the road race (14th cat 2) and 34th in the crit (9th cat 2).

Congratulations to Sarah, Elizabeth and Bryce for making nationals and for their individual results!