Friends of Granogue!
Do you remember what fun last year was? Struggling in the muck and the mire, pushing through the ankle deep mud as the rain pelted us all? Was it a bike race or a bike pushing race? Horizontal climbing skills were at a premium.
A day where a number of expert/elite finishing times were longer than some of the enduro times.
A day where I helped one competitor to the front of the bike wash line, so she could clean her bike and get back into the race.
A day where two of our region’s best mountain bike racers told me that we shouldn’t shorten the race, only to come back a few minutes later after the start, and tell me they gave me bad advice.
While we at Velo Amis pride ourselves in putting on a great event, a challenging and dare we say epic race, we always pride ourselves in putting on fun events. And, while I consider myself a bit of a mudder, there was not too much fun going on last year during our Mud-fest. Thanks for sticking with us.
For 2010 we have put in a request for sunshine and warm weather with Mother Nature, and our hopes are high that she will come through. While none of us over at Velo Amis are going to be joining Mensa anytime soon, we have developed some alternate courses in the event of a rain event. No, it won’t be as awesome as our normal course, but it will allow for some good racing, and will keep the lap times under an hour. We have also perfected an anti rain dance, that we hope will lead to a dry, fast and fun day of racing. (like I said, nobody here is joining Mensa anytime soon)
In addition for 2010 we have added a number of events:
Saturday May 1, 2010 will have a 7 mile running race in the morning, followed by our Granogue Tours for Joyce allowing folks a chance to pre-ride the course, or non racers to have access to these private trails for one day, and closing out our day will be our first annual Time Trial for Joyce. The Time Trail Course will be about a 3rd of a lap of the big course, and will be a great chance to get the legs open before Sunday’s big event.
Sunday May 2, 2010 will be our full slate of MASS enduro and cross country racing…
Registration for all of the bike events can be found here.
And while you are there, why not buy a couple of raffle tickets and help out the Hera Foundation? Their tickets can be found here.
Registration for the Run events can be found here.
As a reminder this race in not but on by one team, but by a community and would not be possible without the support of riders from First State Velo Sport, Bike Line, C3: twenty 20 cycles, The Secret Henry’s team, Wooden Wheels, and the DCCofD.
We’d also like to thank our local sponsors: Henry’s Bikes, Garrison’s Cyclery, Brandywine Cyclery, Bike Line, Wooden Wheels, Trail Runner Sports, and Mill Creek Medical Associates
We also have a pretty sweet webpage, you can check it out here.
Thanks and we look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks.
Best to you.
respect.
Fatmarc
Tom “papa smurf”
Buddy the Keg Breaker
L-Web
Do you remember what fun last year was? Struggling in the muck and the mire, pushing through the ankle deep mud as the rain pelted us all? Was it a bike race or a bike pushing race? Horizontal climbing skills were at a premium.
A day where a number of expert/elite finishing times were longer than some of the enduro times.
A day where I helped one competitor to the front of the bike wash line, so she could clean her bike and get back into the race.
A day where two of our region’s best mountain bike racers told me that we shouldn’t shorten the race, only to come back a few minutes later after the start, and tell me they gave me bad advice.
While we at Velo Amis pride ourselves in putting on a great event, a challenging and dare we say epic race, we always pride ourselves in putting on fun events. And, while I consider myself a bit of a mudder, there was not too much fun going on last year during our Mud-fest. Thanks for sticking with us.
For 2010 we have put in a request for sunshine and warm weather with Mother Nature, and our hopes are high that she will come through. While none of us over at Velo Amis are going to be joining Mensa anytime soon, we have developed some alternate courses in the event of a rain event. No, it won’t be as awesome as our normal course, but it will allow for some good racing, and will keep the lap times under an hour. We have also perfected an anti rain dance, that we hope will lead to a dry, fast and fun day of racing. (like I said, nobody here is joining Mensa anytime soon)
In addition for 2010 we have added a number of events:
Saturday May 1, 2010 will have a 7 mile running race in the morning, followed by our Granogue Tours for Joyce allowing folks a chance to pre-ride the course, or non racers to have access to these private trails for one day, and closing out our day will be our first annual Time Trial for Joyce. The Time Trail Course will be about a 3rd of a lap of the big course, and will be a great chance to get the legs open before Sunday’s big event.
Sunday May 2, 2010 will be our full slate of MASS enduro and cross country racing…
Registration for all of the bike events can be found here.
And while you are there, why not buy a couple of raffle tickets and help out the Hera Foundation? Their tickets can be found here.
Registration for the Run events can be found here.
As a reminder this race in not but on by one team, but by a community and would not be possible without the support of riders from First State Velo Sport, Bike Line, C3: twenty 20 cycles, The Secret Henry’s team, Wooden Wheels, and the DCCofD.
We’d also like to thank our local sponsors: Henry’s Bikes, Garrison’s Cyclery, Brandywine Cyclery, Bike Line, Wooden Wheels, Trail Runner Sports, and Mill Creek Medical Associates
We also have a pretty sweet webpage, you can check it out here.
Thanks and we look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks.
Best to you.
respect.
Fatmarc
Tom “papa smurf”
Buddy the Keg Breaker
L-Web
2 comments:
Struggling in the muck and the mire, pushing through the ankle deep mud as the rain pelted us all? Was it a bike race or a bike pushing race? Horizontal climbing skills were at a premium.
You talking about the mountain bike race, or the cross race? Frankly, I get a bit confused.
Hope to be able to swing by and say Hi. RB
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