Wholefood snack company Nature Valley has renewed its sponsorship of the Nature Valley Grand Prix through to 2007. The Minnesota stage race, which this year will be held June 8-12, is part of the Great River Energy Bicycle Festival and has been known as the Nature Valley Grand Prix since 2001.
The 2005 edition has added two new locations, for the time trial in the state capital city of St. Paul on Wednesday, June 8 and a road race venue in the river town of Mankato on Thursday, June 9. Other stages include the criterium in downtown Minneapolis on June 10 and the final criterium in Stillwater on June 12.
