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  1. 04-14-2014, 02:04 PM #1
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    Default Summer Time Trial Series

    For those of you that were not in attendance at last weeks monthly membership meeting, I am kicking around the idea of putting on a summer time trial series. I'm thinking somewhere in the range of 4-8 TT's over the course of the season, mostly on week nights (similar to the ICORR TT series by our good pal Rage). Before I set the schedule, I wanted to get the opinion of the masses on a few items:

    1. What night of the week works best for you?
    2. Would you rather have the TT's take place at a variety of trail systems or keep it at one trail system (Sunderbruch) for consistency?
    3. A typical winning time for a TT is around 20 minutes. Is there any interest in a "long course" TT event? (complete lap at SBP, etc)

    If you have any other comments or suggestions, feel free to send them my way!

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    1. Monday, Thursday, Friday
    2. Variety sounds great to me
    3. 20 minutes is ideal. Enough time to get everyone up and through and then HFDB.
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    variety. maybe pick different days in case someone can't make it on Tuesdays they can make it to a Thursday. As we get later in the season a longer TT is good too. I love doing TT's. I will help as often as I can.
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    Im in.

    1. Thursday ( work til 6ish every night)
    2. Variety
    3. short or long would be fine
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    Sounds great to me! Thursday would be best for me or any night after 630, which is probably a bit late.
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    When is summer? :/
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    I can probably make one at Illiniwek, but any of the other parks would be too far to ride to make it in time. No worries, though, as weeknights are usually bad for me.
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    I'm in. 6:00 or after works best for me.
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    Tuesday Thursday Friday

    Variety

    20 mins is perfect! 1 Can always grab another lap!
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    So it looks like Thursday is the preferred day of the week, on a variety of trails, and standard TT length courses.

    Again, let me know if you have any other ideas or suggestions...now is the time to speak up!
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    shotgun beer TT...
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimithng23 View Post
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    Drinking is stupid,
    Your ideas are stupid.

    For real.
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