{"id":4977,"date":"2009-09-28T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:28:47","slug":"mcconneloug-bruno-roy-kick-off-2009-cyclocross-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/mcconneloug-bruno-roy-kick-off-2009-cyclocross-season\/","title":{"rendered":"McConneloug, Bruno-Roy Kick Off 2009 Cyclocross Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bord\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/images\/articles\/090928_podium.jpg\" alt=\"Mo gets her medal from a young girl\" width=\"350\" height=\"488\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Chuck Roy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bord\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/images\/articles\/090928_mary_cross.jpg\" alt=\"Mary hops a barrier\"><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bord\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/images\/articles\/090928_mo_cross.jpg\" alt=\"Mo on the CX circuit\" width=\"350\" height=\"283\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jon Henig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bord\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/images\/articles\/090928_tickets.jpg\" alt=\"Lots of raffle tickets\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jon Henig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cyclocross racing shifts into the big ring in September, and Seven&acirc;&#8364;&#8482;s sponsored racers are already earning excellent results.<\/p>\n<p>At Cross Vegas in Las Vegas, NV, Mary McConneloug traded her mountain bike for her cross bike and earned a surprising fifth place finish.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CyclingNews.com<\/a> wrote, &#8220;McConneloug overcame a last-row starting position, powering through the field to catch Butler and then solo away for fifth place.&#8221; Despite racing cyclocross only once in the past five years, CX Magazine commented: &acirc;&#8364;&#339;McConneloug had arguably the most impressive ride to round out the top five.&acirc;&#8364;<\/p>\n<h3>2009 Cross Vegas Elite Women<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Katie Compton (USA) Planet Bike<\/li>\n<li>Katarina Nash (Cze) Luna Chix<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Gould (USA) Luna Chix<\/li>\n<li>Kelli Emmet (USA) Giant<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary McConneloug (USA) Team Kenda\/Seven<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nOn the East Coast, Mo Bruno-Roy earned victory on Day 2 of the Verge Series&acirc;&#8364;&#8482; Green Mountain Cyclo-Cross Weekend. Combined with a pair of second place finishes the previous weekend at the Nittany Lion Cross in Brenigsville, PA and Charm City Cross in Baltimore, MD, Mo has established herself as a consistent podium threat. Her next race will be the Great Brewer&acirc;&#8364;&#8482;s Gran Prix of Gloucester on October 3-4.\n<\/p>\n<h3>Green Mountain Cyclocross Weekend, Williston, VT UCI Elite Women<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Maureen Bruno Roy (USA) MM Racing p\/b Seven<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Natasha Elliott (USA) Garneau Club Chaussure Ogilvy<\/li>\n<li>Nikki Thiemann (USA) Human Zoom Pabst Blue Ribbon<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Wellons (USA) Team Plan C<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Carey (USA) Kenda\/Trainwitheric.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmracing.org\/newsletter\/intro-09.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMRacing&acirc;&#8364;&#8482;s first Race report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclocross racing shifts into the big ring in September, and Seven&acirc;&#8364;&#8482;s sponsored racers are already earning excellent results. At Cross Vegas in Las Vegas, NV, Mary McConneloug traded her mountain bike for her cross bike and earned a surprising fifth place finish.CyclingNews.com wrote, &#8220;McConneloug overcame a last-row starting position, powering through the field to catch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/mcconneloug-bruno-roy-kick-off-2009-cyclocross-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;McConneloug, Bruno-Roy Kick Off 2009 Cyclocross Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[606,5,681],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cyclocross-race","tag-press","tag-team-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12111,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/12111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}