Stuck in Arkansas looking for races

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Permalink Reply by Pirate Race Productions on July 20, 2009 at 7:31pm

The Texas schedule just got decided - there will be 2 weekends of Premier Cup racing in DFW, which is not too far from you. www.txbra.org. Over MLK weekend in January will be the Lone Star Cyclocross Festival in Austin - it will definitely be worth the drive www.lonestarcyclocross.com

Also, look up Kurt Elgi in Little Rock - he's an ultra runner but was a regular at the Dirt Derby when he lived in Austin www.DirtDerby.com

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Permalink Reply by Brian on July 21, 2009 at 12:47pm

Hi Keegen,

Though most of the races will be a pretty serious drive for you, check out the Tennessee racing schedule: http://www.tbra.org/raceschedule.php

We're looking really lucky this year (and we'll be tired!) with racing nearly every weekend from the first weekend of September through the last weekend of February. Since the drive will be fairly long, try to pick out some of the weekend races (races offering Saturday and Sunday) so that you get more bang for your gasoline buck. Also, I think that the Hoss of Cross in McEwen and the Cross The Way Cyclocross Series in Nashville would be closest at about 5 hours.

Good luck and see you at the races,
Brian

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Permalink Reply by Keegen Knapp on July 21, 2009 at 1:47pm

Thanks a lot guys. Really appreciate the help. I don't mind driving five or six hours. I look forward to seeing you out there.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy on July 22, 2009 at 8:47pm

Keegen, Memphis is 2 1/2 hours from you.

We have 5 races here.

The TN state champs is right on the Mississippi river and is sanctioned.

The other races are unsanctioned. 3 of them are in the CycloCrunk series. Just fun races. No organization or classes. Runwhatchabrung.

The third is on the WinterSolstice and is run by the guys at FixMemphis (search for their blog). Also unsanctioned, but also on the MS river.....

Good luck

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Permalink Reply by Brian on July 23, 2009 at 6:34am

Just for clarification, they've moved the TN State Championship race to Johnson City this year (actually next year) on January 31, 2010. In fact, there are no TBRA races in Memphis this year. That just seems wrong though! I guess no one from west TN wanted to sanction any races this year.

L8,
Brian

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy on July 23, 2009 at 2:04pm

That just plain sucks. I had not heard that yet, but admittedly could not find it on the calendar for this year...... Sheesh..... : (

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy on August 3, 2009 at 6:48pm

Found a further clarification on the Outdoors Inc Race in Mid-November.

For what I can tell, it appears the race will still go on as originally thought, it just won't be the state champs.

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