Canceled again

Well, the weather is a little better this week, but the trails are still too muddy. So rather than race and potentially destroy the trails, the May 25 race is canceled. If you preregistered for today, we'll transfer those to next week. keep your fingers crossed that this weather will improve so we can get this series started. See you next week (we hope).

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

Aren't April shower's supposed to bring May flowers? Seems like that's changed to May showers and June Flowers...

From last night's rain, continued through this morning, trail conditions are not looking good at all. Add to that the expected afternoon thunderstorms, we unfortunately have to CANCEL SHORT TRACK TONIGHT (May 18).

We're definitely getting antsy for some mid-week racing. Hopefully the weather will turn favorable for next week.

First Short Track!

The Summer Short Track series begins tomorrow! Please feel free to print out our flyer and post it wherever you can. Bring all your friends out to race too! The more, the merrier, right?
There's a chance for rain, so we'll let you know here if the weather's bad enough to cancel, but we're really eager to get the summer going.
See you tomorrow at 4:30!

Summertime is here!

...And with the great weather and longer daylight means CU Cycling Short Track is back! We'll have the usual categories, starting with the Kids Race. Junior Girls will be racing with Women's B's, but scored separately. Similarly Junior Boys will be with Men's C's. We are undecided if we'll have a separate Single-Speed category racing with the Men's B's. Let us know your opinion in the comments.

We're looking to make this the best Short Track series yet, with plenty of prizes, a dedicated kids course, merchandise primes every week, an overall series payout, and...wait for it...
...and online pre-registration, courtesy of PreRace.com! Registration will be $13 on line and $15 on site, or $147 for all summer.

So get pumped, spread the word, prep the kids, and register now!

Congratulations to everyone who raced!

Our series finished up yesterday, after 11 days of racing (only 2 cancelled on account of rain). You can check out yesterday's results here, with the Overall standings updated here.

Over the 11 races, with 7 different categories (Kids, Juniors, Women's A and B, and Men's A, B and C), there ended up being 44 different people winning at least one race, and 90 different racers found their way on to the podium. So there was always some intense action at our races, wins were never guaranteed. Consistently good performance seemed to be the name of the game for our series winners. A big congratulations goes out to our series winners:

Kids: Oliver Hart
Juniors: Jack Tanner
Women B: Deidre Garvey
Women A: Erin Huck
Men C: Ken Kreidl
Men B: Rick Emerson
Men A: Bryan Alders

Bryan Alders and Erin Huck tied for the most number of wins this summer, with 6 each. The A categories had some fierce competitions, as both Alders and Huck won the series by less than 200 points. For the Women B category, attendance and consistancy mattered more than winning. Deidre Garvey never got the victory, but she was usually in the top 4 of every race. Her persistance and reliability resulted in the Summer Series Overall victory, which is an even more sweet reward.

We are happy to see so many kids interested in mountain biking. Over the course of the series, 55 different children competed.

The Short Track Series is a huge fundraiser for the CU Cycling team, so we REALLY appreciate everyone who came out. We want to thank Full Cycle as well for supplying the truck to post results on, and even moreso for the hot dogs and burgers they graceously supply week after week. It's been a fun summer. We'll see you again next summer!

Final Short Track!

It's hard to believe the 2010 series is nearing its end. After weather shutting down last week's short track, get the angst out this Wednesday. Being the final race this summer, we've got a great new course planned, we'll have awards and prizes, and of course Full Cycle will be on hand with the grill going.

Just to have everything all set, look through the results to make sure everything is copasetic, and let Abby know if there are any corrections that need to be made (abigail.carroll@colorado.edu).

See you Wednesday!

Sorry for the posting delay

I'm currently at a conference in Toronto that doesn't have free internet access. Thanks for your patience though. July 28th results are now up though, along with updated standings.
Only 2 short track races left, so make 'em count! We'll see you tomorrow!