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The unseasonably hot weather that has afflicted the East Coast cyclocross season continued at the first Verge MAC event of 2007, Delaware's UCI C1 Granogue ‘Cross. But it did not keep Tim Johnson and Kerry Barnholt from winning their first-ever Granogue titles by huge margins, and taking home the unique pink-flamingo trophies and a lot of cash.

Heavy overnight rain offered the promise of mud and cooler temperatures, but race day offered neither. The rain did, however, did make the track slick enough to provide some entertaining carnage in the day's first two amateur races, particularly on the long, sweeping off-camber turn down the side of the course's largest hill. There were so many slips, slides and spinouts (yes, actual spinouts), that race announcer Richard Fries dubbed the section the "SRAM Slip ‘n Slide."

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