Monday, December 17, 2007

Compton makes it four national titles in a row


Local racer Katie Compton won a snowy cyclocross national championship in Kansas City Sunday. Next, she is bound for the World Champs in Italy, where she hopes she has a good chance of winning. Here's how the cyclecross nationals official page summed up her win:


Can Anyone Beat Compton at Nationals?

Compton finished off her North American cyclocross season by clinching her fourth consecutive national title. Since earning her first title in 2004, rivals have gotten fitter and faster, but Compton has upped her game to sustain her stunning dominance.

"I just went to the front and rode.," said Compton. "I could hear people cheering behind me so I kind of knew where the other riders were. Then I was hearing slight gaps, so I just kept on the gas."

Compton opened a 15-second gap between her and Gould by the end of the first lap with Maureen Bruno Roy (Independent Fabrication-Wheelworks) and Rachel Lloyd (Proman-Paradigm) in tow. In what would prove to be her best race of the season, Lloyd passed Bruno Roy and closed down a slight gap to reach Gould.

Lloyd managed to get by Gould on lap two and then matched pace with Compton by the middle of the race. But by then, Compton had stretched her lead to 40 seconds and was out of reach.

3 comments:

gwadzilla said...

sounds like an exciting race!

hopefully Katie can show this rock solid consistency at the Worlds!

Anonymous said...

Man - check out how muscular those legs are! They should call her quadzilla! You hear me? Ah, it's about time for me to take a power shake break.

Anonymous said...

Sweet, go girl, whoop the Euros.