While Navigators Insurance rider Ben Day was securing his overall leadat the Tour de Beauce, his teammate Kyle Wamsley scored another team win when he took the sprint at the inaugural Crystal City Classic presented by the United States Air Force in Arlington, Virginia.

Wamsley and Jon Hamblin (Manulife Financial-Kane Bikes) attacked a high-pacedmain field with 12km to go, and stayed away until the finish of the NRCevent. Local rider Peter Cannel (Artemis Elite-Immediate Mortgage) tookthe field sprint for third.“It is a technical course and hard to make a break so we had to be alittle patient with just three guys from the team and pick our moments,”Wamsley said. “We took a gamble at the end and it paid off. I was superpsyched to get the first win here, it is a great course with great fans.I think this race has a great future.”Crystal City Classic presented by the United States Air Force
Arlington, Virginia
1. Kyle Wamsley (USA), Navigators Insurance
2. Jon Hamblin (USA), Manulife Financial-Kane Bikes
3. Peter Cannel (USA), Artemis Elite-Immediate Mortgage

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Toyota-United doubles up over weekend
Toyota-United riders Ivan Stevic and Burke Swindlehurst added to theirteams’ win totals over the weekend, with Stevic taking a win in Austin,Texas, and Swindlehurst taking a win Evanston, Wyoming.

Only Sean Sullivan, Ivan Stevic and Henk Vogels made the trip to Texas’scapital city to compete in Saturday’s AT&T Downtown Austin Criteriumand Sunday’s Driveway Criterium. In front of a huge crowd, Sullivan nearlypulled off a win by jumping out of a three-man breakaway, only to be caughton the last lap of the 70-minute race.Frank Travieso (AEG-Toshiba-Jet Network) took thewin, as Stevic and Vogels finished third and fourth, respectively.“We were hoping Sean would make it to the finish,” Stevic said. “Itwas really hard to control things with only three guys.”Sunday’s race featured a smaller field but speeds were still high onthe car and go-kart racing track where the race was held. The 45-minuterace featured a flurry of attacks. But it all came back together in theend with Stevic taking the win and Vogels placing third. The victory wasStevic's third of the season.Swindlehurst climbed to the top step of the podium Sunday as the winnerof the two-day, three-stage High Uintas Classic Stage Race in Evanston,Wyoming.Swindlehurst soloed away to win Saturday’s 80-mile race through therugged mountains of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest to the summit ofBald Mountain. He followed that with third in Sunday morning’s 10-miletime trial and second in the afternoon criterium.“I'm pretty happy with this since I've been second at this race theprevious four times I’ve done it,” Swindlehurst said.

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Secrest breaks 24-hour record
Seventeen years to the day after commencing his unbroken transcontinentalrecord ride, Michael Secrest proved himself once again as one of the toughestcyclists on the planet by overcoming a bout of exercise-induced asthmato break his own 24-hour indoor unpaced world record with a mark of 535.86miles, at the ADT Event Center Velodrome in Carson, California, on June16.The existing record stood at 534.75 miles, which Secrest set at thesame venue in October 2006. Secrest felt he could significantly surpassthat record this time around.Yet breathing difficulties arose for Secrest that made the outcome agreater challenge, and at times uncertain. Even though he was riding fastenough to break the record, for several hours bystanders were not convincedthat he would finish the ride, his breathing was so labored."If my physiologist wouldn't have had an asthma aspirator with him,the ride would've been over," said Secrest. “It was a stroke of divineintervention. Last time I had exercise-induced asthma was in 1987, whenI won the Race Across America."After that 1987 RAAM, Secrest starred in a television commercial forPrimatene, whose asthma products he'd used to enable him to finish.Exercise physiologist Frank J. Fedel, of East Michigan University, wasamazed to see Secrest push through his difficulties at the ADT Velodrome."The labored breathing continued for several hours, starting at about10:30 p.m. It didn't let up until about 6:30 a.m. I couldn't believe hekept going. His breathing sounded like a freight train, you could hearhim from all the way across the track. It's lucky I happened to have anasthma kit with me, which I was carrying for my own use."For Secrest, 54, it was a ride of which he was particularly glad tosee the end. "World records don't come easy, but I think that must be oneof the toughest world records that anyone has witnessed," he said.He has now set four 24-hour world records in three decades. In 1985he rode 516.2 miles. In 1996 he went 532.74 miles, then last year raisedit to 534.75 miles. This weekend’s mark of 535.86 miles was run at an averagespeed of 22.32 mph.Secrest sees his role as to inspire others to set goals, to not giveup, and be true to themselves. He has established a program called RideYour Bike to School, which combats childhood obesity, and one of the purposesof this world record ride is to draw attention to this program. More informationabout it is available at www.theguyonthebike.com.

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ViaSat Mobile Broadband provides streaming RAAM video
For those following Race Across America, Team ViaSat is providing livestreaming video via satellite from the top of their chase vehicle.Feeds may experience periodic interruptions due to blockages from bridges,buildings, mountains and foliage.