Team Kaos' Tim Farnham (right) competed at the Infineon Raceway Cougar Mountain Classic Circuit Race Sunday. Although he did not finish the 120-minute race, Farnham hung tough in the fast-paced race that featured some top professionals from Successfulliving.com, BMC Racing, Priority Health and Toyota-United.

Meanwhile, Ian Gray and Matt Landen are in Oregon, preparing for this week's Bend Memorial Clinic Cascade Classic. It is the longest consecutively run elite stage race in the country and has attracted most of North America's top cyclists and teams over the years. The race also has ties to the Midwest with the late Sue Hefle of Lincoln and Team Kaos Public Relations Director Sean Weide of Omaha having previously served as chief judges for the race in 1997 and 2004, respectively.

For Gray, it will be the second time he has tackled the five-day, six-stage event. As a Cat. III last year, the Lincolnite finished seventh overall in what he refers to as a "rude awakening" in his first race in that category.

This will be the first time Gray and Landen have competed in a stage race with professionals.

"It's going to be fast, fast, fast," Gray said as he sat in a coffee shop in Eugene, Ore., Monday morning. "Since we are going to be unknown, we can sit in the peloton and do no work. Of course, that statement provokes a thought that we actually have the ability to do the work with these guys."

Omaha, Neb. – At the halfway point of the 2007 season, Team Kaos has already racked up an astounding 39 victories – nearly as many as the team scored in the entire 2006 season.

Women’s I-II-III racer Morgan Chaffin leads the team with seven wins, while three others – Matt Pavlovich (Cat. III), David Rogers (Masters 45+) and Mark Brackenbury (Masters 35+) – have four wins apiece.

Overall, 13 different riders from Team Kaos own victories this season, demonstrating a tremendous balance by one of the Midwest’s top amateur cycling teams.

McWilliams (pictured at right0 captured the final stage, the Industrial Row Criterium, over Jay Thomas (Midwest Cycling Community) to narrowly take the overall title from teammate Tim Farnham, who won Saturday’s Gage County road race. Team Kaos swept the podium with Mark Merritt’s third place, while a fourth Team Kaos rider – Marco Vasquez – finished fourth after winning Sunday’s Old West Trail Time Trial.

Chaffin improved on her second place overall in this race a year ago by sweeping all three stages. The Norfolk native was racing for the first time since a crash at the Joe Martin Stage Race.

Rogers won his title over teammate Jordan Brasch by winning the road race and time trial and finishing second in the criterium. Team Kaos teammate Jon Vondracek was first in the criterium (and second overall in the Cat. IV race) while Brasch finished third.

Odell, Neb. - Marco Vasquez kept Team Kaos on the top step of the Cat. I-II podium at the Monumental Memorial Cycling Weekend with his victory in Sunday's Old West Trail Time Trial.

Vasquez averaged 27.1 miles per hour while covering the 20.5-mile, out-and-back course in 45 minutes and 17 seconds. He beat Team Kaos teammate Mark Merritt by 38 seconds.

Team Kaos also scored wins with Dave Rogers (Masters 45+) and Morgan Chaffin (Women's I-II-III). Chaffin's time of 49:54 was one of the top 15 of the day, regardless of category.

The Monumental Memorial Cycling Weekend concludes Monday with the Industrial Row Criterium in Beatrice.