I just saw an info from EDGKM at the TCC website about an endurance race hold on 7/3/09 from 8 to 12 which looked interesting. The deadline for application is Feb 6th, but as usually it would be safer to apply much before that. This is NOT a mamachari race!
The race is hold in Saitama, Toda City less than an hour by train from Shinagawa. Four hours endurance race on a flat track, teams of 3 to 6 riders are accepted. 8.000JPY/rider. I guess we could go there early in the morning and be back for tea.
This looks like a nice race to start the season and it would be nice if we could get a team of 3 to 4 riders ready. Please let me know if you are interested. More information in Japanese is here.
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Thank you Michael for your alertness to all these nice races some of which are lesser-known to us.
From this year onward, however, I have decided to scale back my race plans. I will no longer enter any group endurance races but focus instead on just a few hillclimbs like Kusatsu, Utsukushigahara and Shiobara and of course the Itoigawa fast run!
Tom,
I am looking forward to the Itoigawa Fast Run this year as well. Let's try to get a big and good team together, plan our rest stops better than last year and try to avoid to look .... suspicious?
Saitama Enduro.. I cannot do.
Itoigawa.. a daunting prospect, very daunting, need to think if I can manage it.
Red Lights.. for me it's all about momentum and the less stop/start the better.. machismo? Erm, no.
Teamwork.. need to get the new Positivos up to speed with pace line etiquette - speed, technique, hand signals etc. - particularly if these bigger groups persist.
Hmm.. this could have been a post in itself..
Itoigawa...you'll love it James! It is not as daunting as one would think reading the reports!
Red lights...for me too it is more about preserving that momentum. I guess it is another reason why we all love those rural mountain passes.
Teamwork...no really what PE excels at but somehow the gears always seem to mesh!
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