Racing around Webster Avenue sounds like a typical weekend night for many Dartmouth students, but this Saturday the racing will be done on bicycles and the participants will not be the average weekend partygoer. The cycling club's L'Enfer du Nord cycling race will hit Webster Avenue Saturday, shutting down the street for the duration of the race.
The event will consist of three different events: a road race in Norwich, a team time-trial in Plainfield, and, highlighting the weekend, the Criterium, which will take place around Webster Avenue beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The Criterium is a fast-paced race in which the cyclists circle the course as many times as possible in approximately 45 minutes for the women and 60 minutes for the men. The exact number of laps is set after officials see how fast the pack of cyclists takes to complete the first few laps. From there, it is a race to finish the laps in the quickest time, Karla Kingsley '05 said.
Alpha Chi will be cosponsoring a barbeque at 12:30 p.m. with the Interfraternity Council and Sigma Phi Epsilon and expects to see at least 100 people, but hopes for around 200. Student Assembly originally planned on sponsoring the barbeque, but withdrew its support due to a lack of funds in the spring budget, Ester Perman '06 said.
"We are just trying to show our support for an underappreciated team at Dartmouth," Andy Bailey '06 president of Alpha Chi said of the cycling club.
Barbeque? In New Hampshire? That is just wrong on so many levels. No one north of the Mason-Dixon line should attempt that without supervision.
