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Feedback needed from Chico Criterium
Sun, 09/20/2009 - 10:07pm
Your thoughts and reflections, good, bad or otherwise, are really important to those of us who put on the race. Please bring your compliments, constructive criticisms and memories of the event.
We strive to improve every year on this event to make it worth the trip. Your feedback is what we base our changes on.
JP
The group putting on the push cart event was separate from Chico Corsa. They were at the city the day after our 2008 crit and took our date. We were lucky they let us use the course around their event. They insisted that they needed three hours for the push cart races and that we share sponsor $. They struggled to use forty-five minutes. Sitting for the next two hours watching an empty course was PAINFUL! That said, there is high probability of our club putting on a two day/three stage event in the spring. Hope to see you all there.
Jeffrey Galland
I think the late start times on a Sunday afternoon definitely hurt attendence. Move everyone back 3 hours and put the hand carts at the end of the day and I think you would have had double the attendence in the afternoon races.
Great racing and a great course.
Tony Reid
Safeway / Bicycles Plus Cycling Team
I'll be coming back and hopefully bringing more teammates. That said, the push-cart races broke up the day and killed the growing buzz from the crowd. Sure, it gave Hernandez a break and allowed him to grab lunch, but all that guy needs is an IV and some caffeine and he'll keep the crowd on their feet cheering!
it was my third year racing at chico, the drive is really worth the experience. the new course is one you ought to keep, made for a safer and faster experience.
For me it was one of the best events of the year. Many different options to race, prize list deeper than usual and generous $ amounts, a lot of primes, enthusiastic crowd, friendly upbeat race organizers and volunteers, a challenging course and also M. Hernandez always a great MC. Thank god for the fountains! I feel that those that didn't make the trek missed out. Thanks so much for the great day of racing.
I had only raced the earlier course in the wet, so I'm not sure how I'd compare them head-to-head, but this was a fast course that was more fun than the office-park crits. That said, I wouldn't have stayed over after the road race on Saturday if the 3/4 crit had been scheduled for 35 minutes, so I didn't like the decision to reduce it to that length from the originally-scheduled 50 minutes.