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Florida State Championship series #6 – San Felasco Trails – Alachua, Fl Beautiful fall weekend in North Central Florida cool crisp air and fast dry conditions for the FSC racers at round six, the 11 mile course has had some recent maintenance thanks to the Friends of San Felasco trail crew and also many thanks to the club for keeping the riders safe by marshaling the event. The San Felasco trail has some good climbing and a whole lot of flow and the racers may have laid down some trial record speeds on this Sunday. The course also had a

Florida State Championship series #5 + Short Track + EMTB – Harpe park – Lakeland, Fl Another great weather experience at round five of the FSC which was also a makeup race weekend for the Coconut Cup.  The Ridge Riders Mountain Bike Association or RRMBA was out in force and had prepped the 6.7 mile course to perfection despite the dry spell, many thanks to all that they do for the sport! Saturday the series short track started at 3pm with the cat ½ men hitting the approximately one mile course and it was Yonathan Mejia winning by less than

Florida State Championship series #4 + EMTB + EMTB Time Trial – Vortex trails – Ocala, Fl Nice time of year to be in Florida for sure, sunshine, mild temps and no rain (until after the event that is). It was a busy weekend at the halfway mark of the season with a first ever E bike individual time trial held on Saturday and the regular XC races on Sunday. A healthy turnout for all and especially in youth classes which is always good to see. The Saturday E bike TT bonus point race was a slightly shorter version of

Florida State Championship series #3 + Coconut Cup #2 + EMTB – Markham park – Sunrise, FlIt has been a very rainy season in South Florida but thankfully it stumbled to a stop just in time for the combined FSC / CC race at Markham park. The Markham park trail crew had set up a “wet course” just in case but as it turned out a small dry cool front rolled in and the conditions were pretty close to perfect. Racing at Markham park is always competitive but when you add the top riders from both the state series and

Coconut Cup series #1 + ST – Dyer Park – West Palm Beach, Fl After a string of wet events at Dyer park it was great to have a dry (or not at least not wet) race. There were threats of rain all weekend and even a few sprinkles now and then but Mother Nature apparently was just playing with us, the conditions were actually great, even the temperatures were nice hovering in the mid 80’s. Speaking of the conditions, the trail was laid out in perhaps the longest and most interesting version to date with a 6.8 mile loop

Florida State Championship series #2 – Hanna Park Trails – Jacksonville, Fl The second stop on the FSC ’25 tour was in Jacksonville at the popular seaside Hanna park, the heat rolled back in this weekend along with the humidity which is kind of fitting for this jungle like trail system. The trails feature lot’s of twists and turns and is know as a rider’s course vs a power course. The surface was a bit on the dry side but other than that the SORBA Jax club had everything in great shape, they also marshaled the event, many thanks to

Florida State Championship series #1 + TT – Tom Brown Trails – Tallahassee, Fl Wow what a change in the weather, it has been a long hot muggy summer and then all of the sudden a cool snap rolled in and along with low humidity it had everyone grinning, especially the competitors. The trails were in awesome shape as well thanks to club TMBA (Tallahassee Mountain Bike Association) and the city of Tallahassee, many thanks! The series kicked off Saturday at 3pm with the annual Time Trial, a one lap rider vs the clock affair that saw Reed Legg take

Georgia State Championship series #4 – Enterprise South Trails – Chattanooga, Tn After weeks of on and off again rains the weekend forecast in Chattanooga finally looked dry and sunny and just in time for the final round of the series. The break in the weather also gave SORBA Chattanooga club a chance to do some much needed trail maintenance which created a super smooth and fast course for the GSC racers, many thanks Sorba Chatt! This layout is a bit on the long side with 8 mile laps but the pace is fast and although there is plenty of

Georgia State Championship series TT#2 – Dauset Trails – Jackson, Ga Tough stop on the GSC circuit weather wise, there was a 50% chance of rain over the weekend and that proved to be a bit of a conservative prediction. The area had been getting lots of rain recently but we were hopefull it would let up enough for us to get the fourth round and the second time trial off without too much disruption. Saturday’s TT was held on time but was still wet in many areas due to overnight rains however Sunday’s race had to be canceled as