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Team Celebrates 2008 Season at Mo’s Irish Pub

Riders and their significant others sipped pints of Irish ale, sampled horsdorves and were treated to a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the team’s successes during the past season and its future plans. Afterward, the team enjoyed a nice dinner and social time with the highlight being able to celebrate Dr Rudy’s birthday. Everyone belted out a […]

2008 Team Wheaton Highlights Presented to Wheaton Board

On October 9th team president, Dave Eckel, and member Rudy Byron shared highlights of the 2008 season with department heads managing Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. Dave and Rudy shared a PowerPoint presentation that covered touching on the team’s accomplished during the past season: races hosted by the team, charity rides and donations, the addition of younger […]

Last WORS Race Of The Year

It’s tough to say goodbye to another race season. The last WORS race was yesterday in Sheboygan. Bittersweet is the best way to describe the race. Sheboygan is regarded by most of the WORS mountain bikers as one of the best venues to attend. We wait all year for this wonderful event and when it’s […]

Wheaton tops at ABR TTT Natz!

Wheaton rides at the 4-person TTT National Championships!! Sunday Sept 7th marked the day for the annual 4 person Team Time Trial which has been organized by the American Bike Racing Association (ABR) down in Utica IL for many years. Wheaton was fortunate to be able to assemble a fast team to contend the overall […]

Wheaton at Natz!

        The 2008 USA Cycling Masters Road National Cycling Championships was held in Louisville, Kentucky June 30th   to July 6th. The individual time trial was the first event on Monday. The 38 kilometer, mostly rolling, curving out-and-back course began and finished at Horseshoe Casino and Hotel in Elizabeth, Indiana, travelling west […]

My Tour de SuperWeek

Ahhhh, July, its mid summer, guaranteed warm weather, baseball is in full swing, (Go Brewers!) the All Star Game, Tour de France, VS’s coverage of the TdF pretty much 24/7, pro racers staying at the house, and the long running SuperWeek. I have decided to get in 6 races over 10 days. A few reasons […]

2008 – A Race Season I Will Never Forget

Let me introduce to you the 2008 Team Wheaton Franciscan Master 4/5 racers that I have had the privilege to race with.  This is a group that with only 2 WCA races remaining, 4 are almost a lock for podium finishes for the year 2008. From Left, Glen, Andy, Rudy, me (Doug), and Mike waiting […]

Team Wheaton at the 2008 Trek 100

On Saturday June 7th, the Team Wheaton Franciscan riders geared up for the annual team charity drive at the 2008 Trek 100. Even though the schedule had the State Road Race the following day, it wasn’t enough to discourage the record setting participation amount of 19 Wheaton participants. Mother Nature finally took a break from […]

My Ride With Lance: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Another Wreck 100 under my belt. Yes, I was in a crash again this year. But, more on that later. The day started out great. I easily found Greg Francken, Jim Saueressig and Doug Wambach – my riding partners for the day. Mike Geinter (Team Extreme) snapped a photo of us and we were off to the […]