The bicycles take over this weekend, and cars will have to take a backseat (or, more accurately, a back road).
Landing the USA Cycling National Championship was a coup for Chattanooga and is drawing thousands to the city. And the race makes history: For the first time ever the top U.S. women cyclists will share the road with men.
When Times Free Press photo intern Connor Choate heard that, he said, “Finding a local female rider was a MUST.”
He and multimedia reporter Mary Helen Miller started searching for a female cyclist and ultimately tracked down Chattanoogan Amy Phillips, who is a member of the Hud Endurance Women’s Cycling Team. She is one of the few local riders competing in the championship races.
“After finding (her) I started to think about how I wanted to shoot the piece and decided it was time to put my GoPro, which had been collecting dust on my shelf, to good use,” Choate said.