An open letter to the Women of the NECX

The women's fields in CX are blowing up right now. Its incredible really. I am sooo stoked about it its not even funny. But we only had 3 ladies racing at Quad in the SS division.

The race at Quad was a ton of fun. The series is just a cool way to add in a bit of no pressure racing to what can be a really intense season. But make no mistake the SS series is competitive. And Zank and I are taking it seriously. We have really great prizes planned for each race. We are going to have a HUGE raffle at the end of the series at Ice Weasels. And there is the grand prize a chance to win a custom Zank TIG welded frame! We will be raffling off a frame at Ice Weasels. All you have to do to be eligible is race. For each race you do you get a chance to enter the raffle. The more you race the more your chances of winning!

Each race is being handled by each individual promoter. Zank and I are working close with them but they dictate when and how the race fits into their schedule. The next race is MRC's Midnight Ride Cross http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=14254

It looks like in their reg page it is one open event. We will stage the women separately and score you separate.

What if for this race the women's prize list was bigger than the men's? Would that be a good incentive? At Quad both men and women winners both won Ipods. I could up the ante if it would entice some of you to give it a try.

What if the women got prizes 5 deep as opposed to the men going 3? And what if the top prize for the ladies was a Wii? 2nd an ipod? And I will get creative with the other 3 prizes. We will also have barrier beer primes and a ton of other fun things going on that night.

What if there were say a start contract for all the women who lined up at series race #2 at MRC? What would that contract include? What if each women who registered for Midnight Ride Cross got a jar of Mad Alchemy CrossVegas embrocation. Just for lining up and racing.

You can use the same geared bike you raced on in the other race that evening. Especially if you have sram. Its super easy all you do is zip tie the shift and brake levers together. We helped a lot of people with this right before their race at Quad.

If you have any questions please email me or Zank. We really want to support women's racing any way we can. Please pass this info on to anyone who you think might be interested.