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Team Tejas Reports – 2013 Texas Ultra Cup Race #1
The First race of the 2013 Texas Ultra Cup Race Series Challenge (TUC) is now in the record book, let the games begin!!!!!! We have formed The Texas Ultra Cup Race Series Challenge, in an attempt to make Ultra racing more fun, more competitive, add another Award to your Trophy case, entice [...]
No Country for Old Men (and one Girl).
Story by Dan Driscoll, No Country for Old Men (NCOM) “It’s all Good”, we loved everything about it. If you like desert scenery and rugged country side, you’ll love this race course, I did. Parts of the race course took us through Big Bend Park and very close to the Mexican Border. Dex [...]
The 2012 Texas Time Trials 10th Anniversary Reunion and Inter-Galactical Championships
Story by Dan Driscoll, From a Race Director’s point of view, the 2012 edition of The Texas Time Trials (TTTT) was a Dream come true with a touch of Nightmare rolled into one especially memorable race. The Dream has been weaving in and out of reality for 10 years; it’s hard to imagine it’s been [...]
Big Miles For 2-Person Mixed Teams at Bessie’s 24
Mix Recumbent 2-person Team of Steve and Peggy Petty report on their Bessie’s Creek 24 – 424 mile Result.. By Steve Petty, Peggy & I had a great time this weekend as a 2 person relay team at Bessie’s Creek (Brookshire, TX) TT race. The course consists of a 21 mile loop (start/finish is the [...]
2012 Bessie’s Creek 24/12/6 Results
24hr Race – Male Standard Overall 1st Kirk Gentle - 398 miles 2nd Mel Morris - 386 [...]
2011 Texas Time Trial – Race Directors Report
Story by Pam Wright Yep, it was a great September day in Glen Rose, Texas, especially for a bike ride, so it must be even better for a 500-mile bike race called the “Tejas500” and to really max out the “Fun-O- Meter,” we’re going to do it in less than 48 hours and qualify [...]
Texan Gary Gottlieb – Courageous Tejas 500 Champion
Fellow cyclists in Texas recognize him as one of the strongest and consistent randonneurs around with a history of completing every randonnee on the schedule year after year. On weekends without randonnees, he’s out there on the road riding permanents. So, it’s no surprise that this will be his second straight year of turning in over 30,000km of [...]
2011 Bessie’s Creek 12/24 Results
Brookshire, Texas, just west of Houston was the venue for the inaugural Bessie’s Creek 6/12/24 hour ultracycling event Memorial Day weekend. As has been the case with other ultra events in Texas so far this year, the weather was certainly going to be a big factor for racers in this one as well with very [...]
