UPDATE 3: Dave Boskee called this morning and said he was riding home just after the crash occurred. An officer on the scene told him the cyclist was riding against traffic on the sidewalk and jumped off the curb against a red light and hit the side of a car.

According to Boskee, there was a large dent on the side of the vehicle.

UPDATE 2: A Tucson Velo follower on twitter set me a message saying the teen jumped a curb and ran into the car. KOLD is also reporting that the cyclist was riding the wrong way and struck the vehicle.

UPDATE: KVOA is reporting that the injuries were serious, but not life threatening.

According to the Tucson Police Department’s public information office a male teenager was struck by a car this afternoon near 22nd Street and Pantano. He was transported to a local hospital with life threatening injuries.

The public information officer did not have additional details about the crash, but said detectives were on the scene investigating.

I wanted to test out a new camera mount for my bike and decided to try it out at the Tuesday Night Bike Ride. Between the rough road and the camera mount, most of the video was too shaky to use, but here are some of the smoother clips.

Today is the last day to submit your photos for the Tucson Velo photo contest. As you can see from the images below, we’ve got some great entries. Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on tonight. Voting will start the next day.

The rules are simple, submit one or two photos that relate to bikes by the end of this month. After the the submission period is over, readers can vote on their favorite photo. The photo with the most votes will win a copy of Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities by Jeff Mapes.

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Cracks liks this one run down much of the bike lane on Anklam.

A little more than a mile of Anklam Road between Silverbell and Greasewood is scheduled to be repaved in the coming months.

According to Diahn Swartz, a City of Tucson traffic engineer, the Anklam repaving is one of ten projects in Tucson being funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Swartz said four of the ten projects were scheduled to begin at the end of July, but Anklam was not one of those projects and because of a nationwide shortage of pavement marking material, they could not say for sure when the projects would actually begin.

Anklam is a popular route for Tucson cyclists because it connects to St. Mary’s which has the only bike lanes under Interstate 10 in the area.

Expansion cracks and poor repair work have created what cyclists call bike speed bumps on the section of Anklam that is being repaved.

According to Swartz, six-foot bike lanes will be added to the entire 1.3 mile section of Anklam.

I’ve been meaning to publish this video produced by Maddie McGary. Maddie is a high school student, who participated in the UA School of Journalism’s diversity workshop.

Check out the video:

Seven Tucsonans competed in the USA Cycling Junior, U-23 and Elite National Championships this weekend in Bend, Ore.

Tucson Velo caught up with three of them to talk about their races.

David Glick, 28, Ride Clean

Glick competed in the time trial and road race, skipping the criterium to rest for the road race.

He finished the time trial (47:15.30) a minute faster than he did last year and was happy with his ride, but wished he had placed higher.

“Everybody else went a lot faster too,” Glick said. “I ended up 24th so it was a little bit of a disappointment as far as placing goes, but I thought the time was good.”

Glick said he skipped the criterium because his Ride Clean team didn’t have a sprinter so they decided to rest and focus on the road race.

Glick said he and a teammate Jared Gilyard were in the main pack at the end of the race, but couldn’t get organized enough to place higher.

“We were there and in the final group sprinting for second place, but we weren’t aggressive enough fighting for position at the end,” Glick said. “We should have gotten together and gotten to the front no matter what. It was just really fast and kind of chaotic at the end and we lost our spot. We rode a good race until then.”

Glick said he is going to lay low until the start of the six-day Cascade Cycling Classic, which starts in Bend, Ore. on July 20.

Results:

• Time Trial: 24th place, 47:15.30
• Road Race: 18th place, 3:53:55.60

Robert Chorost, 18, Ride Clean

Chorost said he was happy with his performance in the trial especially considering it was an uphill course.

“I am pretty good at time trialing, but I am more of a power guy on the flats,” Chorost said. “So for it being uphill and getting 23rd I was pretty satisfied.”

He said he wasn’t thrilled with his 52nd place in the criterium, but has happy that he finished because many riders were lapped and pulled from the course.

“It was pretty fun, pretty intense,” Chorost said. “We had a 129 guys in the field and there were attacks everywhere, left and right, both sides of the field. I fell off the back and got 52nd unfortunately, but that is OK, I survived the entire crit.”

Chorost said the course for the road race wasn’t particularly challenging, but there were a few short hills that people were constantly attacking and that made it tough. Chorost finished 89th.

Chorost made a USA Cycling regional team and will be riding at the Le Tour de l’Abitibi

Results:

• Time Trial: 23rd place, 36:41.90
• Criterium: 52nd place, 1:08:04.40
• Road Race: 89th place, 2:57:28.20

Thomas Jondall, 18, White Mountain Road

Jondall had the best finish of any of the Tucsonans, finishing third in the time trial.

“Third place is definitely a satisfying result,” Jondall said.

Jondall said he skipped the criterium because he thought it might be too chaotic.

I signed up, but I didn’t even start,” Jondall said. “I thought there would be too many crashes.”

In the road race, Jondall said he missed the first break and had to chase the rest of the race.

“I tried to bridge up and failed so I just kind of mingled in the pack,” Jondall said. “The race was definitely full gas the whole way. I was pretty limited in what I could do, I didn’t have many tools in the tool box.”

Jondall will be competing in the Le Tour de l’Abitibi with the USA Cycling National team, which he said he has been working hard to make the team.

“I’ve been trying to get on the national team for a while so it was good to finally make it and get some good starts and experience,” Jondall said.

Results:

• Time Trial: 3rd place, 34:57.60
• Road Race: 52nd place, 2:42:58.20

Other Tucsonans:

Paul Thomas, 42, Ride Clean

• Time Trial: 32nd place, 48:21.40

Judy Jenkins, 30, Specialized Designs

• Time Trial: 30th place, 56:04.90
• Road Race: 60th place, 03:08:55.50

Tulio Weber, 14, El Grupo

• Time Trial: 5th place, 18:32.30
• Criterium: 12th place, 20:09.60
• Road Race: 21st place, 1:08:25.30

Max Cronyn, 15, El Grupo

• Time Trial: 38th place, 38:44.20
• Criterium: 46th place, 35:31.90
• Road Race: 55th place, 1:37:1.90

Editor’s note: All ages are racing ages, which is how old the rider will be on Dec. 31,  and may differ from the cyclist’s actual age.

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Team Colleen, a local non-profit cycling group which focuses on cancer survivors and raising money for cancer research, is teaming up with The Loft Cinema for a showing of “Ride the Divide.”

The film is about the the world’s toughest mountain-bike race, which covers 2,700 miles along the continental divide.

A portion of ticket sales will go to the Team Colleen organization. In addition to the ticket sales, the team will be holding a raffle with prizes from several local businesses.

Check out the event listing on the Loft’s website. Here is the TucsonVelo event listing where you can send the event on your social networks.
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Editor’s note: 14 -year-old Max Cronyn spent the weekend competing at the USA Cycling Junior Nationals in Bend, Ore. This is final update from the races. Thanks for keeping up updated Max.

Today’s race:

The road race was another hard race and I didn’t feel 100 percent this morning.

The line up for the start was the same as yesterday. It was funny because there were 75 of us and the race official tried to get us to move back and we’d take three steps back and then we would all cram back together. We did it like five times before he had move us 30 feet back.

I had pretty poor starting position because I got to the start line a little late. I was probably around 60 of 75 racers
For the first two miles, the race was neutral and no one could attack so that we could get out of town, after that it was a really fast race. It was similar a really hard Cat 3 race. The guys who have a chance at winning any of the races at nationals could hold their own in any Pro 1/2 field and could win most Cat 2 races. It was a really tough field.

I planned to be on the front at the start of the climbs so that I had some room to fall back, but it didn’t go quite as planned. The centerline rule wasn’t in effect so we could take up the entire road. There were pretty much always 10 people across the road, which made it really hard to move up through the pack. I never really moved up.

We hit the first climb, which was about 1.5 miles long. About halfway up , people started getting dropped pretty consistently. Every 15 seconds or so, somebody would get dropped. Pretty soon it was my turn to get dropped and then I rode behind the field for the rest of the race.  I worked with another rider for a little while, but I ended up dropping him.  I finished toward the back of the field. (Editor’s note: Max finished  55th of 66 riders, 12 minutes behind the leaders.)

Looking back:

I would have liked to finish better, but I think it was good to come up to nationals and get beaten. It is kind of tough to go from local races where I can do pretty well and then you come up here and you get your butt handed to you.

Sometimes getting beaten can be motivating. The road race wasn’t terribly motivating, but I was really motivated by the crit because I got better riding in a big field. I want to continue to get better at crits because it suits my size better.

I am glad I am done with nationals for this year. I would do it again next year if we were going to be in the US, but I still want to get better even though I won’t be able to come next year.

The races solidified that I need to get better climbing and riding at the front of a big pack. It is hard to get to the front and then it is really easy to slide back.

I’ve been talking to a lot of people who say the junior nationals is not a huge indicator of who is going to do well in cycling at another time. I just want to keep racing and keep getting better.

It was fun to race with people my own age this weekend, although it makes it harder because when you are racing with a bunch of older guys and you get dropped, you can always say, “Ohh in another 25 years I’ll be able to keep up with you.”  You can’t really say that when you are racing people your own age.

I think the races this weekend helped me get a lot more confident. People go to nationals and come back faster on the bike. I think I am faster now and I think I’ve made a big improvement from last year.

I like to do well and I did better last year, but I liked racing with the 15-16 year-olds because it is a lot more uniform in strength and it is a lot more skilled.

Pre-race meal:

I didn’t feel like eating much this morning, but my mom made me choke down this smoothie that she made. I am not sure what all was in it, but I know it had bananas, milk, peanut butter and chocolate powder.  I also had some Cheerios.

We made our own energy drink for the race today. It had lemon juice, honey and salt mixed with water. It tasted like honey and it was pretty effective.

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