Well, over the Memorial day weekend in eastern Iowa there are a series of bike races, starting Friday and ending Monday. The most well know of the four races is the Snake Alley Criterium. Now for a little bit of history on the snake alley, wikipedia provides the following information "Snake Alley is a street located in Burlington, Iowa, once recognized by Ripley's Believe It or Not as the "Crookedest Alley in the World". Snake Alley consists of five half-curves and two quarter-curves over a distance of 275 feet (83.8 m), rising 58.3 ft (17.8 m), a 21% grade, from Washington Street to Columbia."
Racers from all over the midwest show up and try to win, or survive, this race. Two of Fort Dodge Trisport's own showed up on Saturday to charm the snake. Travis Jass and Eric Knox were brave enough to race this beast. In the top picture you can see the elevation gain on just the bottom part of this hill. Eric is centered in the top picture and again going up the hill on the cobbles. The pictures below show Travis having a go on the cobbles. I believe 58 started the race. 39 ended up finishing with Travis finishing 21st and Eric 33rd. Nice job guys.
check out the video, it will explain it all. You can actually see Travis and Eric in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJYgAn3UK2c
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