Update: The course is wet and you will get wet. Bring dry clothes to change into. Don’t forget your mug and spoon.

Date: November 1, 2009

Location: Woodhaven Park and Community Club, 200 Glendale Blvd.

Times (please remember that Daylight Savings Time goes into effect this weekend):

1. Citizens - 11:30 (25 min + 2 laps)
2. Kids (u13) - 12:15 (15 min + 2 laps)
3. U15, U17, all women, male 40+, male 50+ - 12:45 (35 min + 2 laps)
4. U23, Elite (24-29), male 30+ - 2:00 (45 min + 2 laps)

Registration: Registration opens at 9:30 and ends 30 minutes before your event. You must hole a UCI/CCA racing licence, MCA citizen licence, KOM licence. Registration form and waiver are available online and at the race site. Please download the form and waiver, fill out and bring the completed form and waiver to the race.

Cost: $10 for U17 and above. Free for U15 and citizens holding a MCA citizen license. Cash and cheque only. Make cheques out to the Olympia Cycling Club

Categories: The provincial championships are based on age. Because cyclocross is technically on next year’s calendar the age category you race in is base on your age as of December 31, 2010. Please look at this list to see the category and times you are racing. If you are not on the list find the age category you belong in - please remember this is your age as of December 31, 2010.

Race Course: The course will be between 2.5 and 3 km. It will be a technically challenging course with a lot of cornering. There will be one double-barrier and a hill climb and run-up

Race Regulations:
Hand-ups are not allowed any where on the course. Mechanical work, bike exchange, and wheel exchange may take place, but only within the designated pit lane. A rider may NOT take on any additional water or food at any time during the race. Road, mountain, and cyclocross bikes are allowed. MTB handlebars must not have bar-ends. All bikes must have functional front and rear brakes.

Riders are required to wear a hard-shell ANSI or SNELL approved helmet while racing, warming up, and cooling down.

Parking:
Parking is available in the parking lot at the community club and road leading  to the community club.

Courtesy and Safety:
The park is a public area and will be marked as closed, but marshals do not have authority to prevent people from entering. Keep your head up at all times.
Participants at that event may wander onto the course. Be courteous to all park users.

Washrooms:
Washrooms will be open with running water. We are responsible for returning the community club to their original state. If you track mud in or dirty the sink, etc. please clean up after yourself.

Race Map: Something like this…
View 2009 Provincial Cyclocross Championships in a larger map

a.k.a. the death spiral, a.k.a. the intestine

a little bit of the madness we have planned for this sunday

When it is the provincials. Provincials are run by age category and not by classification (A/B). Therefore you may be in an all new time category for this race. Here are the age breakdowns, race and start times:

• Citizen (25 min +2 laps) at 11:30
• U13, U11, U9, U7 (15 min +2 laps) at 12:15
• Women, U17, 40+, 50+ (35 min +2 laps) at 12:45
• U23, Elite (24-29), 30+ (45min +2 laps) at 2:00

Who are you racing against? Depends on your age as of December 31, 2010 - yes, 2010! Cyclocross is technically on next year’s schedule so that is the date used for the age cut off. Confused? Well here is a list of the adult racers and which category they fall in.

this year brought to you by the Olympia Cycling Club.

the race poster

the soup and bread feed poster

looking to get involved in the party? here is your opportunity; cross needs lots of volunteers - the more, the better the race quality. please let me know if and where you can help?

Schedule

Saturday, Oct 31
1) 3:00 PM, course overview and setup planning. Will be riding and marking the course. We will not be doing any staking as it is Halloween and that night and it would be just silly to do anything like that. Would like a few volunteers here - the idea is to put people in charge of a section to be staked and marked the next morning and if you are there to go over it the night before the morning should go much faster.

Sunday, Nov 1
1) 7:30 AM, staking and taping the course, maybe shoveling if necessary (right now they are calling for snow on Saturday) - we need lots of people for this one. The citizen’s race starts at 11:30 so we need the lots of bodies to make sure the race course is ready to go.

The community club will be open early so we’ll have a place to warm up and hang out before the race - coffee and doughnuts will be provided.

Race Times:

• 11:30 Citizen’s race
• 12:15 Kids Race
• 12:45 B Race
• 2:00 A Race
• 3:30+  Awards and Soup and Bread Feed

Volunteer Positions Needed:

1. Course Marker (setup and take down)
2. Marshals
3. Food Prep
4. Registration

Materials needed:

1. Snow fence and posts - if anyone has, or knows of someone who has a good length of snow fence we could use a couple of hundred feet.

next week is the manitoba cyclocross provincials. following the race and during the awards ceremony we will be doing this…

note that you need to bring your own bowl/mug and spoon if you want some soup. why? we don’t want to be filling landfills with disposable bowls and spoons - no need for that.

but, before that we have the Cross-Tastic race this Sunday at Whittier - be there.