HS #14 Bartow May 8th and 9th

FTR HS #14 at Bartow - May 8-9, 2010

The Peewee track will be in the same area that we used at the Sunrunners HS in November. The Peewees will be able to ride there in the afternoon after their races are over IF they are supervised by their parents. The track is laid out under the oak trees and it is a great place to watch the kids.

Saturday's course will be about 6.5 miles long. About 4 miles of it is brand new trail. Wherever we have used trail from our previous event we have taken a skidsteer and a mixer/grinder to loosen and resurface the trail. There will be elevation changes. There will be no sandy whoops - no palmetto roots. The fast guys should be able to turn laps in the 16-18 minute range.

There will be a fun run that starts about 6PM. It will be run like a poker run. Everybody will get to make 3 laps around a 3-mile course. We cannot use more of the track since our crews will be out re-routing/re-arrowing the course to switch it over to Sunday's course. The prize for the winner of the poker run will be free ticket to the FTR banquet in August.

Sunday’s course is about 11 miles long. It heads west and south out of the camping area so you will be riding some interesting terrain, wind through some planted pines and the cowpens, skirt Sand Lake and Mud Lake, and work your way back to the camping area. A lot of new trail has been cut using a powered mulcher, and a grinder/mixer has been used on any trail that we have used before. It uses only short sections of Saturday's course. It will not be a pasture race. We expect 25-minute lap times.

It will be typical mid-May weather so start hydrating now. Be sure to hydrate before and during the race.

We always are asked how many trophies are you giving out this weekend? The answer is about 200. That is a lot of trophies - you do the math. If we get 500 riders that averages about 1 trophy per every 2.5 riders. We are not going cheap on the number of trophies.

We are looking for volunteers to help us this weekend.