Omaha Cycling Weekend Photos

Links to OCW event photos found below.

Last weekend was the Omaha Cycling Weekend and I am finally getting around to saying anything about it. As some of you may know, it is one of Omaha's premier bike racing weekends which entails a short Saturday morning time trial, a twilight criterium and another criterium on Sunday which is seated in down town Omaha. It being my first year at the event and my first real stint at road bike racing, I was quite impressed by the whole situation.
I initially went in just planning on doing the TT on Saturday morning, but after that went pretty well, Mr. Eric Brunt convinced me that I should do the criterium that evening as well. For those of you that don't know what a criterium is, well, look it up. Unfortunately, I took to long to post about the event, so I won't bother going much into details, though I am sure my interest could be sparked with beer.
I did however shoot the Cat 3 and Pro 1/2 on Saturday with minimal success and happened to talk to the pace car driver that evening about riding with him and shooting the next day during the races. -- At the time, I was not planning on racing since I could barely walk after the race that evening... but low and behold, I felt fine the next morning and raced that afternoon, leading the field for the majority of the race and learning a few lessons from all the other bike racers.
It was a very entertaining experience to say the least.
I then jumped into the pace car, a new BMW Z3 roadster and shot the Pro 1/2s race. Seeings how the course was a three turn (one of them being a 270+ degree hair pin) loop measuring about .5 of a mile, I got quite sick staring thru a 400mm telephoto lens while sitting and shooting backwards in the car. The CAT 1/2 riders were really crushing it and I was trying my darndest to capture the action while not hurling on the hand stitched BMW leather. They say a roadster like that will get you chicks, but after trying to get comfortable in those seats in any sort of position that was not facing forward, I can pretty much guarantee that you won't actually be getting laid IN the car.
With that said here are the links to the fruit of my labor as well as my friend and shooting partner Justin Limoges photos as well. Enjoy and happy pedaling.

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Lucas Marshall's OCW Criterium Photos

Justin Limoges' OCW Criterium Photos


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