My Friend Dee Dee…National Cyclocross Champ!!
Congratulations to my dear friend Dee Dee Winfield, who this past weekend took 1st place in the 2006 US National Cyclocross Championship Women’s Masters 30-34 category, and 4th place in the Women’s Elite race. Doesn’t she look great in the Stars and Stripes?!
You can read more about Dee Dee, aka “Grasshopper” on her team’s web site Team Velo Bela - Kona. And here is some coverage of the Cyclocross National Championships on Cycling News.
Dee Dee just had a baby last year, and has come back from her pregnancy stronger than ever! Dee Dee is having a phenomenal year on the bike. She recently won the Iron Cross, a brutal cyclocross race, that is known for being the longest cyclocross race in the country (something like 40 miles I think?). I should also mention that Iron Cross is in Pennsylvania and has some of the classic (muddy, snowy, friggin’ cold) conditions that are synonymous with cyclocross, as opposed to some of the local Southern California cyclocross that apparently goes down where I live.
She really worked hard for this and we’re all so proud of her! I really admire Dee Dee as a an athlete, as a friend, and I feel lucky to know her and her family (aka, “The Gords”).
December 20th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
Wow, holy sweet! Go Dee Dee!
December 21st, 2006 at 4:55 pm
That baby is gonna have a hell of a time in one of those little seats on the back of mom’s bike!
March 21st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Deidre rocks. One minute she kicks your butt and the next she’s all smiles and nice and cooing over her baby.
She caught me at Ironcross, which is 60-some-odd miles, earlier than any other woman has before (they start behind the men), smoking by me about two-thirds of the way up the first major climb.
And she raced against the men’s vet and A-class - back-to-back no less - in Richmond in early January as she prepared for the ‘cross worlds. I wrote that up with photos on my blog here…
http://cyclochris.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/hunted-but-not-lapped/