Originally Posted by
jfmckenna
Sorry guys I really am. We worked incredibly hard on this event and you can imagine how disappointed we are that no one wants to come. I know it conflicted with some other races but those other races are 4 and 5 hours from here and strangely their registration numbers are low relatively speaking for the area. We tried to guage responses from people here on BF and all over the area, 'will you come to a race if we put it on?' We had an overwhelming yes response so we are a bit confused as to what went wrong. It's quite possible that we are to remote a location to support a bike race. People simply may not want to travel here especially when there is another race in their every day locations. And we overlook that because if we want to race our bikes then we always have to travel at least 3 hours since there is no local races here, Roanoke being the exception. It's also possible too that people don't want to race in the mountains, I don't know?
Anyway we have so much momentum that none of us want to call the quits so we are going to regroup and see if we can't get the August 29th date.
I'm certain that the ToWC in MABRA land limited your #s from the WDC part of the world, as well as that we're extremely spoiled up here to have a big race calender within 1 to 2 hrs. of our front doors. Albeit very crit heavy and everyone's always whining about nothing with climbs.
It sucks to have to re-schedule, we had to for our race this year, but were able to slide it in an open spot on the calender fortunately.
If you go with August, that's a tough month as folks are crispy and talkin' cross, but the calender is totally void of events that time of year except for 8/9 which is the page valley RR in luray (MABRA RR championships) and 8/23 which is a big time crit in WDC. If you do re-schedule, ping the MABRA list serve weekly to promote the race, I dont recall receiving any emails about your event, just bike forums stuff, alot of folks are on the MABRA list serve and it's a good promotional tool, use it 'till you feel like you're being annoying, then use it some more
Calender is here in case you dont have it:
http://www.mabra.org/
also - tour of millersburg in PA is weekend of 8-11/12. it got a very positive response last year and likely will again this year. something to consider when re-selecting your date.