Live in Williamsburg or Richmond? Check this out.

I don’t know what the local coverage is like, but in case you haven’t heard:

In what is being billed as the “true North American Championship,” the inaugural U.S. Open Cycling Championships are set for Saturday, April 7, in Richmond, Virginia. The 112-mile men’s race, a stop on the international UCI Americas Tour and the national USA Cycling Pro Tour, will begin in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia and follow the route along the historic Jamestown Plantations and Civil War battlefields, ending with eight 5.5-mile circuits in downtown Richmond including a brutal cobblestone climb up Libby Hill.

The best point for seeing it in person is probably downtown Richmond. The end of the race involves an eight lap loop:

Entering Richmond on Dock Street at about 10:30 a.m., the racers will begin an arduous 5.5-mile circuit that they’ll traverse eight times. The circuit includes a steep climb over cobblestones in Libby Hill Park, and passage through both Jackson Ward and Shockoe Bottom. Along the way, the athletes will pass close to many Richmond landmarks, including the Bill “Bojangles” Robinson statue, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument and the newly unveiled Reconciliation Memorial. The men will finish around noon in front of The Library of Virginia

I don’t know enough about Richmond to recommend vantage points from there, but if any readers do, please share in the comments.  If you can’t make it, but are still interested, it’ll be on NBC Sports from 2:30 to 5:00.