International Christian Cycling Club

The North Texas spoke-to-be hosted the 2nd month of the Horse Country Time Trials on Saturday, July 28. This event was put together in mid season due to a lack of any time trial events in the North Texas area. The series run last year was dropped by the promoter.

With less than 10 members and a few friends of the club, the group has been able to pull off a 20K TT for the second month in a row with good weather, no injuries and great prizes.

The different events being run are based on it being as simple as possible:

• Mens's open
• Women's open
• Juniors
• Recumbents
• Tandems
• Teams

The prize money is limited to $100 for the Men and Women's open class, paid out over 7 places. Everyone else gets a medal (5 places) or a cheesy trophy (fastest team)

This month, we were very pleased to improve our attendance from 49 to 54 racers. We had hoped for more, but are very happy with at 10% improvement. Especially since we were competing with a large and very popular rally on the other side of town. Also, there was a large track event in the evening at our local velodrome. Many of our top TT racers did the track event as well.

The previous course record of 27:18 by Kenny York/PACC was destroyed by 19 year old hotshot Shane Densmore (Compliance Depot) with a new record of 26:32. This is a very hilly course, so these times are exceedingly fast. Almost 28mph is fast on a flat course.

We want to also make note of our Ttile Sponsor, Richardson Bike Mart (www.bikemart.com) for providing funding for law enforcement. Also, IC3 National sponsors ROL Wheels and Hammer Nutrition contributed a set of race wheels and a significant amount of product for primes, goodie bags and door prizes. The wheelset giveaway was very well received, and a new generation of HEED addicts was born among our junior racers.

Above all, we want to thank GOD for His protection, and IC3 for their support in making this a truly successful series. The spoke made approximately $1000 dollars, of which a significant portion will go to Prestonwood Baptist Church for their ministry efforts. The rest will be kept for spoke development.

Next up: August 18...month 3.