2016 Campton Cross Preview
October 27, 2016
- Rob Kelley, Peter Kelley, and the entire Bicycle Heaven crew bring you the 11th edition of Campton Cross in beautiful Campton Hills.
- Remember to use #camptonCX on Twitter and Instagram.
- Need directions? Point yourself towards 4N930 Brown Road, St. Charles, IL. From I-90: Randall Road South, to Rt. 64 West, past LaFox Road, turn right onto Brown Road and park is up on your left.
- Preliminary staging will be here.
- Kids race starts at 1pm.
- Remember reg closes 30 minutes before the scheduled start of each race. If you’re late, you’re not racing.
- Race director Rob Kelley will be the judge in the annual costume contest.
- Food Vendor is Bob’s Slow Food.
- Sorry, but NO alcoholic beverages are allowed in the park.
- The weather looks great again but a little chillier than last week.
- Training Bible Cycling and Bicycle Heaven have increased the Cat 1/2/3 payouts to $700 total for each field, and paying out 8 deep
- The Women Cat 3 field will again have their own payout! $200, 5 deep.
- Rob and the crew encourage riders to NOT warm up on/around the soccer fields to the East of registration. The village has asked us to keep off the areas visible when you pull into the park. If you carefully ride North on Brown Rd for about 200 meters you can hop onto the Prairie Path/Great Western trail (see the thick yellow line in the map below) which is a great place to warm up. Thank you.
- The Course: We’ll be reversing the course this year and relocating the log and bunny hops. Course preview: http://www.trainingbiblecycling.com/campton-cx-2016-course-preview/
As for costumes, I remember that you have to have sleeves, per USAC. Any other clothing requirements that we should keep in mind?
Debuting a new “unofficial” category podium at Campton Cross. Top three junior girls and top three junior boys ages 9-10 will be recognized at the 12:15pm Junior Podium ceremony. Please let those who have young juniors know! It will be posted at registration and announced at the staging area.
All juniors aged 15-18, parents, family, friends, and fans are invited to the 11:45am Older Junior Podium ceremony.
All juniors aged 9-14, parents, family, friends, and fans are invited to the 12:15pm Younger Junior Podium ceremony.
Thank you Kelly and others for help with the “unofficial”women’s single speed podium. Look for this to continue for the series as well.
I’m sure you’re aware of this, but I thought I’d recommend that you change the website layout so that the link to comments videos and pictures comes up as the homepage on race day and until the Tuesday update. When people have to dig to find it on the website they’re much less likely to see it or contribute to it. That’s too bad since it’s one of the nice things that keeps the momentum of the series going during the week.
Agreed and thanks for the heads up. We’re still trying to figure out this whole Internets thing.