The Capital Plaza Hotel across the street from the golden-domed state capital building in Montpelier, VT is our host for a great long cycling weekend this year for the August civic holiday.

Well that's it; the successful week of racing at Junior Pan American Games is officially over.  The racing in Guatemala started out with some nerves due to the fact that it was the first international competition for many of the riders on this year's young junior team. Team Canada was very excited for their upcoming races throughout the 7 days and excited to work as a team and try our very best in all our races we were there to do. The week started out pretty slow for certain riders because some did not start racing until somewhere throughout the middle of the week.

Once again the OBC will visit the Lake Placid area in late summer. This is a great area to ride a bike, with layered green hills, rushing streams and lots of quiet country roads. If that isn't enough a change of speed can be had by bringing your hiking boots - the hiking is terrific too! The sleepy town of Lake Placid is nearby as well.

Pictures from the OBC Paris Roubaix courtesy of Perry McKenna are available on-line.

Video courtesy of 53x11 is also available on-line.