As the promoters say, “fasten your seatbelt.” The Twilight Criterium is coming back to downtown Rochester Saturday evening.
A criterium is a professional bicycle race, run on a closed course with lots of turns and urban street challenges. Racers typically pedal at a 30-mile-per-hour pace and constantly challenge for the lead, leading the sport to be called “NASCAR on two wheels.”
There will be shorter races Saturday afternoon, but the two-hour full criterium starts at 7:45 and finishes just after 10:00 p.m.
Downtown streets that will be blocked off for most of the day include East Broad and Court Streets across the Genesee River, Exchange Boulevard from Court to Main Street and the loop around the Bausch and Lomb Building.