Beginner Ride A Long is Back Tuesday
So What happens Tuesday?
Beginners and Juniors, a select few of you, will be given the opportunity to have an Elite racer race alongside you. You’ll get during race coaching, encouragement, and the opportunity to meet someone who once was a beginner, now turned seasoned racer.
Beginner Ride A Long –
Beginners and Elite Racers will be paired for the main event, onsite. Two ways to make this happen:
- Show up, line up, and when we run out of Mentors we’re done…and ready to race.
- If you are a beginner, and know an Elite Racer you’d like to pair with, just come to the Pairing Coral together at 5:45pm and we’ll get you ready to go out together.
*Keep in mind only 5-10% of our field is made up of Elite Racers, so if you don’t get paired up this time, we’ll have clinics and training opportunities for you in the future.
Elite Racers, you will be paired up with a beginner racer to show them the ropes and ride alongside, to help guide them through the night’s race. You’ll complete Two Laps with the beginners; Starting with them, and finishing with them. (There is no regular length Elite Race Tuesday, June 2).
Then, after all racers are off the course at 7:15 We will launch the 360 Fly Cash Dash Short-Course.
360 Fly Cash Dash-
Scoring: Short Course will be scored same as any other race in the Elite Classes (we keep 9 of your best races out of 12 races for series points)
Who: Elite Racers will line up together (All 3 Classes Elite, Elite Masters, and Elite Women, but will be scored in their own category)
Length of Course: 1 Mile or less. Racers will complete 4 laps on the short course, winners will be awarded cash prizes for the top 3 places in their class. $1000 will be distributed across the classes each of the 360 Fly Cash Dash races.
Where: Irvine Lake, from the exhibit area across the “old” lagoon, in site for a majority of the lap. Spectators will have “moto-side” seats for this Superstar Battle of the summer with mountain bike motocross greats, current stars, and legends (even if it’s only in our mind).
Three ways to participate:
- Beginners & Juniors: show up on Tuesday, we’ll pair you up with an Elite Racer, onsite. There is no registration needed, other than your weekly race entry. We’ll pair riders at 5:45pm.
- Elite Racers: Ride-A-Long(side) and coach a Beginner. Help them find their pedal stroke, or gain some useful race tips. Then after you’re warmed up launch the superchargers. The short course will be a fast, flowy and spectator lined Bicycle Jockey Race.
- Everyone else: get our there and see the latest and newest addition to our multi-sensory Over the Hump experience. The 360 Fly Cash Dash Short-Course is going to be one that we talk about for the rest of the year.
- All other classes (except Elite) will be racing during the standard 6:00-7:00pm “Main Event” or 5:30 kid’s race…just like any other week.
Beginner Rules: Beginners you’ll race your 2 laps, as you always do, no changes.
Elite Rules: To Race the 360 Fly Cash Dash Elite Racers must participate in the Ride-A-Long
- In order to race the 360 Fly Cash Dash you will need to do the Beginner Ride-A-Long with a rider assigned to you before the main event race. You must cross the line with them, or if they do not finish, escort them to the DNF line and report together.
- After contestants have completed the beginner lap, and the course is clear, the 360 Fly Cash Dash will race.
- All other Over the Hump rules apply, you must stay on the course, and within the markings as delineated on the course, complete the four laps.
- Race will be scored on the finish order for your individual Elite Class (Elite, Elite Masters, or Women’s Elite), however you will be racing at the same time.
- Cash Primes on laps will be called out during the race, by the MC.
TUESDAY is one NOT TO MISS.
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Tuesday is the BEGINNER RIDE A LONG w Elite Racer Mentors & @360Fly Cash Dash. Elites who do Ride-A-Long may race http://t.co/ZiIwxwYmkA
Can we do it again if we did it last time? It was a freakin blast!
Mark, you can! Glad you liked it, we’ve had more fun with the Ride-A-Long and 360 Fly Cash Dash than anything else this season. See you Tuesday
Would be rad to ride with Brian Gordon again!
Can the junior girls age 12-15 get elite/pro girl mentors?
Good question Kirk, we will try to pair the girls with a female mentor, if they are available when girls are in line for a mentor. It will ultimately depend on who is available on Tuesday, when we do the pairing. Regardless, girls will have the option of having or Not having a mentor based on availability of mentors.