Collegiate Nationals: Chasing Down Monument

One of the most beautiful streets in Richmond is Monument Avenue, lined with trees and beautiful Antebellum mansions along the wide sidewalks and grand statues of the generals of the Confederacy.  It is some times called the Avenue of Second Place Trophies.  The road race went up past the Lee Monument swung around the Jefferson Davis Statue and came back down before swinging of the avenue at the Stuart Monument on their way back downtown.  The avenue is another of the cobbled boulevards the riders faced, but this pave is more like the Champs Elysees than the pave of Paris Roubaix.  This group is off the front of the peloton trying to chase down the four or five riders making up the two leading breakaways.  This is an original watercolor and ink postcard that is available through my artist website at www.greigleach.com or you could just follow the direct link at the end of this post.

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A Long Wait for the Worlds

It is still a long way off until the world rolls into Richmond, Virginia to vie for the 2015 Rainbow Jersey, but all of us cycling fans can't wait.  As you most likely know, I spent last season painting a number of the big tours of the Pro Tour calendar along with some of the shorter 7 day stage races.  This is a painting fantasizing about what it will be like as the Elite Men contest the World Road Championship snaking their way through the streets of my adopted home town.  So while we are all waiting for the start of the 2014 Pro Tour season, enjoy this little guess what the 2015 Worlds will look like (and yes, I did stick Team USA on the front as they rip down Monument Avenue).