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Offline Sal Atticum

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Cyclocross 2011
« on: August 18, 2011, 09:47:00 AM »
Howdy folks!

Even though it's really mountain bike season, the outside world would have it be cyclocross season.  In case you're interested in doing some races this fall (in addition to our own), here's a list that should keep growing: http://northernplainsathletics.com/events-filter?field_date_value2_op=%3E%3D&field_date_value2%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=&field_date_value2%5Bmin%5D%5Bdate%5D=&field_date_value2%5Bmax%5D%5Bdate%5D=&tid%5B%5D=25

As you can see, we still need to organize and schedule our own races and Fargo needs to get their calendar up, but that's the gyst so far.
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2011, 11:51:40 AM »
How many MN folks did we draw last year? Or perhaps more importantly, how many ND folks head off to MN for races?  I'd say first off, don't conflict with any Mof the MB races since those are relatively close...

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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2011, 07:17:58 AM »
I will still have to get you these numbers after the weekend.

I am inspired by this article: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/213812/.  If they can convince Grand Forks that an inline marathon is worth this much money and effort, we should be able to build a cycling community that has events that draw a great number of people.  We were discussing on the ride yesterday that people have been bugging the bike shop to know when the cx series is going to be this year; IMHO it's just silly to not organize as many races as we can while we have people who want to be involved.  If money in GFK starts flowing towards athletic events like this, we're in a prime spot to benefit.
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2011, 10:47:27 PM »
I see both pros and cons for the series vs. single race.  Given the 12-hr mtb race already this fall and the number of other races, I almost think it would be better to go with a single race that we hype up extensively (unless we only want to draw Fargo/GFK consistently?).   The best date I can come up with (eyeballing the schedule) is for Sat, Oct. 15.  No conflicts. There is a race in Altona, MB the next day, so I'm not sure how that will impact the Canadian riders. 




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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2011, 09:14:48 AM »
There's a climbing comp at NHRG on October 15th.  Not sure how it will effect local participation, but people like Max and Chase would definitely be torn.
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2011, 09:47:31 AM »
Nevermind on that date then!    Don't want to compete against other local events... that should be the very top priority?

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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2011, 03:00:06 PM »
Well, the trick is this: how many other races are there that are even close to here?  I'd rather have a mostly half-assed race if we can get enough people from around here to even TRY cyclocross than to not have any races at all and have to travel.  This is a combination of me not wanting to travel all fall and wanting to build up the race community here for the future.

We had four people from MN, six from ND outside of Grand Forks, six from Manitoba, and the rest (out of 48 people total over three races) from Grand Forks.  This is a strong local showing, IMHO, and people KNOW and are expecting another series this fall.

Race 1 had 32 people
Race 2 had 27 people
Race 3 had 27 people

Attached is my histogram of the age distributions.  I'd love to get some high schoolers involved, maybe through Ben (who did the Bikecicle race this year).
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2011, 03:21:38 PM »
I just talked this over out loud, and maybe it works.

If the goal of the club (in having any kind of cyclocross races at all) is to get people around (in town) here to race cyclocross and/or ride bicycles more, it stand to reason that we should focus on the people around here.  What I mean is that we don't have to compete with other races if we don't schedule them on the weekend.  Sure, we may have fewer people turn out every night that we do it, but at least they'll be learning the skills and seeing what it feels like--which makes it easier to get them interested in going to a "real" race on the weekend, somewhere else (I think Manitoba is the way to go, honestly).

How does that sound? A Wednesday night 'cross series here in town, run on a course that isn't hard to set up or take down (think a million times less tape than last year) to drum up some interest.  Obviously there's interest, so let's do something at least.
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Re: MEETING Tuesday at 8 PM! Be there!
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2011, 09:47:31 PM »
I'm interested in cyclocross practice.

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Re: Re: MEETING Tuesday at 8 PM! Be there!
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2011, 09:56:31 PM »
Sounds like a good evening activity to me!

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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2011, 01:01:07 PM »
What day works for you guys?  Are you around evenings this week sweatynready?

Race travel planning here: http://talk.campusdakota.com/index.php?topic=5875.0
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2011, 01:02:24 PM »
Wed/Thur evenings...  Riverside Park?

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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #12 on: September 06, 2011, 01:03:39 PM »
Either Riverside or Lincoln sledding hill.  I wish we could do it here on campus but we don't have the hillz...
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2011, 05:16:41 PM »
I'll be around GF this week, practicing my mounts.

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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2011, 11:05:34 PM »
5 Reasons Why You Should ‘CROSS


[url]http://blog.trainingpeaks.com/posts/2011/9/6/5-reasons-why-you-should-cross.html/url]

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Re: Cyclocross 2011
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2011, 09:59:34 AM »
OUWxGuesser, can you post the races at Northern Plains Athletics once you have all the details put together?  I don't remember everything from the meeting.
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2011, 10:08:14 AM »
Will do.  There is still a bit of confusion for the practice race timing? I saw 5pm listed in the minutes, but I thought we were aiming for ~5:30-5:45 or so.

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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2011, 10:23:12 AM »
That was one of the things I was wondering about.  I agree that it was closer to 6.
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Re: Cyclocross 2011
« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2011, 09:03:55 PM »
OK, I attached my first attempt at the poster!  Let me know what you think. 



I just took a screenshot of the ppt, so ignore the spelling red line at the bottom for now. 

 

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