Utahns who follow cycling at all are undoubtedly familiar with the annual Tour of Utah event. But they perhaps may be unfamiliar with the inaugural Salt Lake Criterium.
The Salt Lake Criterium will feature riders going around a 1.1-mile loop near The Gateway shopping center and surrounding neighborhoods on Saturday. While the races are technically timed (the professional women’s riders will go for 60 minutes; the professional men for 75), that format is used to ascertain lap times, and once those are established, race officials will commence a lap countdown, with the first rider to then complete those and cross the finish line being declared the winner.