GMBC host Scottish Cyclocross Association Race – Round 3 at Mugdock Country Park, Sunday 23 October

The Tri Centre Scottish Cyclocross Series for 2011 starts a week today!! With 9 races on the calendar, Glasgow Mountain Bike Club will host the third round on Sunday 23rd October at their ‘home ground’ in Mugdock Country Park.

Our race has been on the calendar for many years and is a firm favourite amongst racers. We hope to make this year’s race a great success and it would be fantastic to see as many GMBC jerseys as possible flying round the course. So if you’ve never tried cyclocross before (or even if you have), why not grab your bike (MTBs are allowed) and join in this fun and friendly event.

To get an idea of what to expect, have a look at last year’s race report on the SCX website and Marky Mark’s photos for the Senior men, Women/Vets/Juniors and Youth races.

Race times, sign on & practice timings are as follows:

Under 12 Race – 10am – Free Entry

Under 12 race sign on closes 9.40am prompt
Course open for practice for Under 12 between 9.15am and 9.50am.
Under 12 race starts 10.00am & finishes 10.20am

Youth Race – 10:45am – £6 Entry

Youth race sign-on closes 10.25am prompt
Course open for practice for Youths between 10.25am and 10.35am
Youth race starts 10.45am & finishes 11.15am

Women’s/Vet’s/Junior’s Race – 11:45am –  £12 Entry

Womens/Vets/Juniors race sign-on closes 11.25am prompt
Course open for practice for W/V/J between 11.20am and 11.35am
W/V/J race starts 11.45am & finishes 12.30pm

Senior Men’s Race – 12:45pm – £12 Entry

Senior race sign-on closes 12.40pm prompt
Course open for practice for Seniors from 12.30pm to 12.40pm
Senior race starts 12.45pm & finishes 1.45pm

Please get to sign-on in plenty of time. Sign-on will close promptly 20 minutes before each race start time. This is to enable full start sheets to be passed to the commissarie and PA announcer.

There will be queues for each race category and a separate one for assigning timing chips.

YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO PRACTICE THE COURSE UNLESS SIGNED-ON
Helmets must be worn when practicing on the course.

Please take care when warming up and practicing as this is a public facility with dogs and young children on the loose.

There is car parking at the visitor centre, which will probably fill up quickly on race day. There is also the Khyber and Mugdock East car parks which are both within a few minutes ride of the course.

The start/finish area is right beside the visitor centre and will be serving the usual tasty grub.