Archive for the ‘Cycling’ Category

The golden shovels in the dirt today at the future site of the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex could only mean one thing: Groundbreaking! With about 100 people looking on, County Commissioners, officials from the City of Auburndale and Polk County Tourism & Sports Marketing officially broke ground to begin construction on the massive sports complex [...]

Here are some more great photos of the Florida State Criterium Championships that were held in downtown Lakeland last weekend. Dave Stedje, the organizer of the event, was very complimentary of the event and the venue.
We had over 375 riders for the State Championships and it just keeps growing every year. Everyone loves the venue and the [...]

As mentioned here Friday, the Florida Criterium Championships took place this weekend in downtown Lakeland. Josh at Empirical Polk has a post up and some great shots of the action. In fact, we should just call Josh our unofficial photographer because a lot of the photos you see on this blog were taken by him.
Enjoy.

Two events to check out this weekend for those of you who enjoy fitness and endurance sports.

YMCA Corporate Cup 5K- Saturday, May 17 @ 8:00 AM, Lake Hollingsworth
Check out teams of four from around Polk County competing to win the Corporate Cup.

Florida State Criterium Championships- Sunday, May 18 7:30 AM – about 4:00 PM, Downtown [...]

Play ball, gentlemen start your engines, time for kickoff….the list of clichés could go on and on, but that wouldn’t be a good way to kick off (just one more time doesn’t hurt) the first entry for Polk County’s newest sports blog. We host more than 200 sporting events each year in Polk County and [...]