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The Orange Mound Round. 1.7 miles (2.75 km). The course runs counterclockwise and the path will not cross (though it uses a short stretch of the road for both north and southbound. If we have a good, mixed turnout we'll have two rides -- one fixed one geared. That way it should be safer for everyone. We'll have at least one person on the course watching for traffic and if there are two races, there should be others to help out as well.

The afterpart will be at Jacob and Isaiah's on Philadelphia.

Come one, come all, to the final night of the Memphis Downs. We leave Revolutions at 9.

Actually Mike's a slacker who didn't want to get out in the rain this morning to take the spoke cards to Kinko's. I promise I will do this tomorrow morning.

Mike has the Memphis Downs Sprints spokecards over at Outdoors on Union. If you rode last Thursday, stop by to pick yours up.

Sprints Results


Thursday's Memphis Sprint Championships were a tremendous amount of fun. Because of threatening rain and strong winds, we didn't have as huge a turnout as the last time, but 16 intrepid riders still made it out for a leg burning showdown.

Bert Hull brought the fastest legs absolutely dominating the competition. Robbie gave him a run in the final round, but he blew everyone else's helmets off. The final round consisted of a round-robin of the final four riders with Robbie taking second, Josh third and Mike rounding out the top four.

The women's category became really interesting this race with Vivian's unexpected arrival. Fresh off a cross-country bike tour, she threatened with legs of steel and lungs to match (but lighter and with more capacity). She and Amber matched up for a best two out of three which Amber took in two very close races. Congrats to Amber for remaining the fastest woman of the night.

I'll have more later, including photos , but here is a quick break down of the points standings. I'll explain the distribution of points in the comments, if it's stupid call me on it and we'll figure out a better way.

The standings for the Memphis Downs GC, with one ride to go, are:

Denis 32 pts
Josh 32
Chase 28
Kermit 25
Cort 23
Zach 24
Anthony 20
Mike 19
Isaiah 16
Russ 14
Eric 12
Patrick 12
Bert 12
Robby 11
Alex 11
Jackson 10
Amber 10
Nate 10
Dan 10
Jacob 9
Josef 6
PJ 6
Chris 6
Vivian 6
Kellen 4
Kyle 4
John 4
Brad 3
Jason 2

The Sprint portion of the 2007 Memphis Downs will occur Thursday 19 October at 9. The evening will start with a short scavenger hunt to the drag strip to establish seeding. More later, y'all.

SPRINT RACE CHANGE

The Memphis Downs Sprint Championship will be held on Thursday 18 October. We will leave Revolutions at 9, so be there early for directions.