MAC cyclocross series expands

An expanded and upgraded MAC series is ready to begin its 2008 cyclocross campaign. With an increase in prize money, races and UCI points, the MAC Series is continuing to build on its reputation as America’s premier regional cyclocross series. Also expanded this year is MAC’s geographic reach. With the inclusion of the Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup, the series now stretches from the tip of Long Island to the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC, a distance almost exactly equal to the length of Belgium and The Netherlands combined; and home to more than 32 million people.

Two other well-respected races have also joined the MAC this year and together will form the series’ season-opening weekend on September 20-21. The UCI C2 Nittany Lion Cross will kick-off the season on Saturday, September 21 at Penn State University’s Fogelsville Campus in the heart of the bike racing mecca of Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The following day, the MAC circuit travels south to Baltimore’s Charm City Cyclocross, a race that has frequently set new attendance records for Mid-Atlantic region cyclocross during its history and was won last year by defending MAC Champion Davide Frattini of Team Colavita/Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light. Also rejoining the MAC after a two-year hiatus will be the event at Maryland’s Fair Hill Fairgrounds, near the University of Delaware.

The new events have not come at the expense of the races that created the MAC legacy. The legendary Cyclocross at Granogue once again joins the Wissahickon Cyclocross for their traditional October UCI double header while MAC’s New Jersey weekend featuring Beacon Cyclocross’ “Amphitheater of Pain” and the HPCX occur in early November. The MAC season will end in December with its traditional curtain closer, the Capital Cross Classic in the Washington DC area.

For more information, see www.midatlanticcyclocross.com.

2008 MAC Cyclocross Series Schedule:

9/20: Nittany Lion Cyclocross, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (UCI C2)
9/21: Charm City Cyclocross, Baltimore, Maryland
10/18: Cyclocross at Granogue, Granogue Estate (Wilmington) Delaware (UCI C1)
10/19: Wissahickon Cyclocross, Ludwig’s Corner (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania (UCI C2)
11/1: Fair Hill Cyclocross, Fair Hill Maryland (Newark Delaware)
11/8: Beacon Cross, Bridgeton, New Jersey
11/9: HPCX, Jamesburg, New Jersey (UCI C2)
11/22: Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup #1
Southampton “the Hamptons” New York Day (UCI C1)
11/23: Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup #2
Southampton “the Hamptons” New York Day (UCI C1)
12/7: Capital Cross Classic, Reston, Virginia (Washington DC) (UCI C2)

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