2008 Univest Grand Prix Selects TARGETRAINING

Sparta Cycling, organizer of the Univest Grand Prix, has invited TARGETRAINING to compete in the classic road race on Saturday as well as the Univest Criterium on Sunday. The Univest Grand Prix is one of the premier cycling races in the Northeast and its younger cousin, the Criterium, is quickly becoming important as well.

The team, including manager extraodinaire Kyle Wolfe, captain Eneas Freyre, and young guns Justin Lindine, Ben Zawacki, Lee Rosenthal, Craig Luekens, and Adam St. Germaine, along with our own Matt Baldwin, earned the right to compete in (and a chance to win) this 100+ mile race through the hills of Lancaster County.

The history of the Univest Grand Prix's race usually sees a select group of riders entering the finishing circuits, where it completes the first part (an 80+ mile road point to point race, which causes the peloton to shrink to a small gruppeto). The remainder of the shattered peloton then battle it out in what is a painful, fast 20 loop finishing circuit with a tough, repeating hill just in case anyone still feels fresh. Will Frishkorn, who got 2nd in the 3rd stage of the 2008 Tour de France, won Univest in 2007. So this is a tough race with top competition. Eneas placed 9th in the 2002 version of this race and will be a strong guiding force for the entire team. In 2005, Anthony Colby got 3rd for TARGETRAINING and in 2006, Frank Pipp got 4th racing for TARGETRAINING. This younger TARGETRAINING team will we hope live up to the tradition of responding to the challenge of this arduous contest.

Final team selection will be announced in the coming weeks. To see more about this race, please go to http://www.univestgrandprix.com/.