Criteriums

[sundial]

I don't mention it often cuz I'm Texas A&M at heart.

[Andrea]

Every crit has its own personality. Some of them are made difficult by the terrain, all are made difficult by the racers.

A "dangerous" spot is just part of crit racing that makes it crit racing. If you took out pavement cracks, holes, lids, and narrow downhill, off-camber turns, that'd be like taking roots and rocks off of a mountain bike course... or taking the Hautecam out of The Tour

[Julibird]

There's a dogleg/s-curve section in a local training crit that comes before a straightaway and a 90 degree turn. I've seen three things typically happen: either there's a lot of jockeying around at this place as people try to get into a better position, or the bunch sort of slows down and a lull happens before a surge to get to the next corner, or someone uses this spot to attack in the last lap to tire out people before the field sprint.

Your course looks similar. It looks fun.

Do they have the whole road?

[Tuckervill]

Yep, the whole road.

I haven't heard if the powers that be have approved the course yet, but we'll see.

Karen