Originally Posted by Psimet2001

When it was straight up Downer's or when it was last run under Prairie State/Intelligentsia series? LOVE that course. Really miss having it. Last year it was run, don't quote me on this, I believe Tom Schuler has to pay the city a lot of money just to have it. something like $20k. I loved every minute of it and visited every local business I could letting them know I was only there because of the race.

If I were to ever get back in enough shape to actually try to care about a race performance (I still race a handful of times every year but I look worse in the pictures than I ever did) it would definitely be for Downers.

There was a poll on Facebook that I think Rahsaan Bahati started asking everyone what the best or top 3 crits ever in this country are/were and Downers was in just about every's picks.

Was one of my only top 10 placings too. Nostalgia.