PORTLAND, your biggest party is on this weekend!!! The @portlandcriterium presented by @steeplejackbeer is BACK for its third edition, now with two days of racing joy. Saturday, the classic course, downtown, at the North Park Blocks, with a full schedule of crit racing, PLUS a Street Mile running race AND Relay, presented by @theathletic 💜 And Sunday, a brand new crit course co-hosted by @ecolloyd at the Lloyd Center Mall, and the host of the 2025 OBRA Criterium Championships. Saturday’s schedule includes a @pedalpaloozapdx / @cycleoregon Community Ride to the course, with 30 minutes of fun laps ON course available! Sunday includes a community street fair in Holliday Park, called Party On! Portland! Come down and check it out! For us, this sweet weekend marks the conclusion of our special 2025 road project undertaking. We’re stoked to bring the show home and share the fun with our home city, racing both days this weekend, and we’re already looking forward to doing it again in 2026. This weekend’s roster includes: Jenna Lingwood Kimberly Lucie Rachel Geiter Brenna Wrye-Simpson Come watch these crit dawgs rip some corners this weekend: Saturday, 5:50pm Sunday, 1:10pm A special thank you to our team sponsors, Steeplejack Beer & Sellwood Cycle Repair, for their sponsorship of this weekend, ensuring its success. #TeamSandMCX #TeamSandMCD #doitthehardway #workingclasscyclocross #portlandcriterium #steeplejackbeer #neverletthemknowyournextmove

Crit dawg summer kicked off with a trip to Bend, OR for the second annual @cascade_cycling_classic_crit! An exceptionally organized new event by an experienced crew, this event is growing, and we encourage you to put it on your 2026 calendar!! Our women’s race had a small yet mighty turnout. Given this and a 6-corner course featuring a tight series of middle corners, a slight rise, and a tricky chicane, we thought this event would play best if we endeavored to take a lap—and that’s just what we did. With a hot start and lots of generous primes on offer, the attacks kicked off, and several permutations of breakaways went up the road, with our team of three represented each time. The ultimate move went when an attack from inside a break went clear, splitting that group. Brenna bridged up, and with each major team represented, the move of three riders stayed steady while the field lulled and surged behind. Ultimately the break would rejoin the field from behind in the closing 10 laps. Successfully navigating the finish once up a lap can be a little messy. But with a podium placing guaranteed, we still wanted to play for the next highest placing. Jenna won the field sprint for 4th, with Brenna stepping on the box for 3rd. Thank you so much to promoter @mollycogswell_kelley for building this event up, to the @cityofbendoregon for turning out in such warm support, and to the incredible event sponsors for their generous endorsement! @hornercyclingfoundation @worthybrewing @michellemillsrealestate @argonautcycles @highdesertlaw @redbirdphysio @high_desert_sportsandspine @sagebrushcycles @modussportgroup @hydroflask Last but not least, holding a pup on the podium was a heart-melter. If you’re looking to a adopt a doggo, seek out Bend’s @streetdoghero 🐶🧡 📸 @joelle_debban Outplay Creative #TeamSandMCX #workingclasscyclocross #workingclasscritcritters #doitthehardway

It’s June, which means it’s time to roll out the next phase for “Team S&M CD.” As in, like, “crit dawg,” ya know? First stop on summer tour is none other than the party in our own backyard, @cascade_cycling_classic_crit 💥💥💥 A huge thank you to this event and @hornercyclingfoundation for putting such energy and resources into something so special. It’s their second year, and we know this event is picking up steam!! Special shoutout to our friends at @rideshimano // @modussportgroup for providing pit support!! Catch our trio in downtown Bend tomorrow night at 5:40p!

@tourdebloom race reports are COMIN’! In the interim, this is the big big shoutout to the partnering companies who love women’s cycling and invest in our team structure so we can share our dreams, humor, and abilities, contributing to the goodness & quality of the US racing scene: @sellwoodcycle @steeplejackbeer @thepuffcoffee @castellicycling @shimanoroad @lazersportna @skratchlabs An extra big nod to the local bike shops—ours included—who believe in bikes holistically but also still specifically bike racing, and who therefore keep carrying teams to literally the highest level as opportunity arises. Look around and you’ll see a well-run LBS standing up behind a given upstanding racing team. Support those businesses who operate with passion and build community as well as build big dreams! Thanks for following along, more #B💯M reports to come… #TeamSandMCX #doitthehardway #womenscycling #cxteamdoesroadszn #roadracingaintdead #sellwoodcyclerepair #steeplejackbeer #puffcoffee #castellicycling #sockguylove #rideshimano #skratchlabs #lazersport #kineticore #bikeflights #packshipride #everyonewatcheswomenssports

Stage 1 of Tour de Bloom yesterday was a chance for the peloton to purge some nerves over big rollers and exposed farmland countryside. The wind that Waterville is famous for never quite materialized, and with a relatively short stage, the field delivered a chaotic bunch sprint. Kaya snagged a cheeky top-20, while Kim got points AND bonus seconds in the intermediate sprint, meaning we start today—crit day—with Kim in 5th GC. And we love a downtown twilight crit. Thanks for the hospitality and incredible terrain so far, Wenatchee! 📸 @blakedahlin #TeamSandMCX  #doitthehardway  #womenscycling  #cxteamdoesroadszn #roadracingaintdead  #sellwoodcyclerepair  #steeplejackbeer  #puffcoffee #castellicycling #sockguylove #rideshimano  #skratchlabs  #sockguyluv  #lazersport #kineticore  #bikeflights #packshipride #everyonewatcheswomenssports

Tomorrow we start our second event together for 2025, the @tourdebloom, est. 1999 up in Wenatchee, WA and launching its first UCI 2.2 event for the Elite women this year. As we line up for this ultra cool experience that’s happening just up the road from our hometown, we want to give recognition to the businesses and friends that support our team and this road project, and this one goes out to Steeplejack Brewing. Our friends at @steeplejackbeer believe in the good of cycling and want to see regional riders and races succeed in their growth to new levels, but also in a mission of bringing greatness in sporting experiences back to a local community and a tangible level—full circle. We’re proud to represent their passion out on the road this week and are so grateful for the direct care and endorsement. Next time you get a pint, Portland, get one over at the Jack. 🍻 Now, time to go get it! #TeamSandMCX #cxteamdoesroadszn #steeplejackbrewing #sellwoodcyclerepair #tourdebloom25 #tourdebloom #womenscycling

The 2025 #cxteamdoesroadszn tour continues! This week marks Stop 2: @tourdebloom! An anchor for the PNW racing community, Bloom is making its first appearance as a UCI 2.2 event for the Elite Women this season, and we’re thrilled at the field that this ranking has attracted to an event we already knew was gold. When thinking through our intentional contribution to the US women’s road scene this year, heading back to Tour de Bloom—and for this UCI debut—was an obvious priority for us. We’re excited to share our part of the country with the peloton. The PNW scenery showcased in the variable courses that Bloom has to offer is exceptional, variable, beautiful, and cruel all at the same time. Thank you, Bloom crew, for your continued commitment to high quality US road racing and for the invite to come play hard at this year’s rendition! Returning from our Redlands roster for Bloom: *Brenna Wrye-Simpson, OR, S&M mainstay and ringleader *Cara O’Neill, AZ, fresh off her 2nd place finish on the Sunset Loop *Kim Lucie, AZ, our fiercest crit dawg and dog lover *Douglas Torres, mechanic extraordinaire We’re thrilled to welcome aboard Kaya Musgrave (CO, U23) and Grace Nottingham (VA) for this round! Kaya is a ‘crosser with international experience and acclaim, just getting her first forays into the road racing scene this year. A cyclist all her life but also an artist, ask Kaya to show you her work!! She loves stripes, and we love her for her tenacity. When she’s not on her bike, Grace is a field scientist, and she always has a hardhat and a pair of snake boots in her car. Anybody who’s a dog lover and also on a first name basis with their librarian is more than alright in our book. She’s in it for the teamwork and for the uphills. The action kicks off this Friday! #TeamSandMCX #doitthehardway #b💯m #tourdebloom #womenscycling #roadracingaintdead #sellwoodcyclerepair #steeplejackbeer #castelli #castellicycling #puffcoffee #inspiteofitalllifeisbeautiful #rideshimano #skratchlabs #sockguyluv #lazersport #kineticore #everyonewatcheswomenssports #GCCara

’25 Redlands Review, Day 5 - The Sunset Road Race The Sunset Loop is infamous in US road racing, with many incredible battles playing out in this special final stage, for both the win on the day and also the GC—every dang year of the Redlands Bicycle Classic. It finishes with a bang. You guys already know how good this day was to us just one week ago, so thanks for soaking it up once again with us. The whole point of this year’s road project within the Team S&M CX structure is to keep good riders with experience racing and pursuing their best, and this day and result feels like an affirmation. We’re incredibly honored to see Cara notch this second place finish at Sunset while wearing the S&M jersey, a remarkable result and one to treasure. It’s special to be a part of your story, Cara, and to have made some really special memories together as a team at this year’s Redlands Bicycle Classic. Photos 3-10 thanks to @blakedahlin ✨ See you next week, @tourdebloom 🎉🪩 #TeamSandMCX #doitthehardway #womenscycling #redlandsbicycleclassic #cxteamdoesroadszn #roadracingaintdead #sellwoodcyclerepair #steeplejackbeer  #rideshimano #skratchlabs #sockguyluv #lazersport #kineticore #puffcoffee❤️❤️#everyonewatcheswomenssports #GCCara

’25 Redlands Review, Day 4 - The Downtown Criterium While some teams look to merely survive crit day within a stage race, we’re happy to report that we are not that team. It’s our favorite, as simple as that, closely followed by the punchy circuit race stages. This year’s downtown crit had a delayed start due to 900+ community kiddos turning out for the various morning kids’ races!!!! What an exceptional reason! Redlands has cultivated an incredible level of engagement with and from its community and it’s awesome to take in and contribute to in some small way each year that we come back. The stage itself was active, with several small moves forming in the first third and all of our crew covering or initiating. As the race moved toward its midpoint, a duo snuck away without us but Kim did the lord’s work seeking to bridge. The total move was reabsorbed, with a few more combos countering but not sticking. The day’s heat and effort was apparent in the final 15 minutes of the event, with a dangerously palpable lull evident. Race leader Alia Shafi took advantage and snuck away solo for the final laps as the field struggled to shut it down. As the final opened, Brenna went all-in on the gambler prime, while Kim found Jenna, moving her up in the sprint, and GC Cara did GC things, safely staying forward in the final surge. Cara notched a nice 7th place, with Jenna in 14th—and most importantly, we put on a good show and had a good time throughout. Photos thanks to @blakedahlin, videos by @jared.wright.art #TeamSandMCX #doitthehardway #womenscycling #redlandsbicycleclassic #cxteamdoesroadszn #roadracingaintdead #sellwoodcyclerepair #steeplejackbeer #puffcoffee❤️❤️ #rideshimano #skratchlabs #sockguyluv #lazersport #kineticore #everyonewatcheswomenssports #GCCara