USA Cycling rule changes for 2012 include dropping Men Masters 30+ due to lack of participants:
https://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=7220
Accordingly, NY has dropped Men Masters 30+ from the NY Championship categories list (attached). As promoters, you should consider dropping that field from your events as well.
Extract from our Championship Selection process:
Promoters and clubs that would like to host Championship events should indicate their interest every year in the hopes of establishing a pool of interested clubs and a fair rotation. Although a location near the geographic or population center of the state is desirable, the goal is to allow championship events to move around the state without prejudice to location.
1. Any club can offer to host a race up as per the schedule published on nyraces@yahoogroups.com by the NYS Schedule coordinator. As a guideline, bids shall be due by midnight, 30 November of the previous year. Calls for bids shall be announced on nyraces@yahoogroups.com at least 30 calendar days prior to the bid deadline.
2. Offers to host (“Bids”) must be posted (note: as email) to nyraces@yahoogroups.com. Bids must include:
a. Name of promoter
b. Name of sponsoring USA Cycling club
c. Proposed date and location
d. Description of course (type of terrain, condition of roads, road closure, lead/follow cars, wheel vans, safety, etc.)
e. Description of venue (parking, facilities)
f. Description of proposed event (fields, sponsors, prizes, any other factors)
g. Description of previous experience hosting similar events
h. Last year the club hosted the championship event.
3. If there is only one bid to host an event, the offer shall be accepted.
4. If there are multiple bids, the bidding promoters shall discuss options to achieve a consensus that resolves the multiple offers to satisfaction of all.
The 2011 New York State Cyclocross Championship race will take place at the Staten Island Cyclocross (SICX) race on Saturday, November 12, 2011. Wolf Pond Park in Staten Island will be the site of this year’s Championship race where New York State residents are eligible to compete for NYS Cyclocross Championship honors in 11 different race categories. The Staten Island Cyclocross race is now in its 4th year and has seen tremendous growth in both rider and spectator attendance. SICX will feature races for competitors of all levels, from local amateurs to national and international racers.
On behalf of the Tioga Velo Club and New York State Bicycle Racing Association, we would like to thank you for your participation in the New York State Time Trial Championships!
Results are now posted online at:
http://www.fastalracing.com/NYSTTResults11.pdf
http://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2011-1234
Pictures are posted also at:
https://picasaweb.google.com
http://www.flickr.com
Congratulations!
Marsha Kapinus- Chief Judge
Jeff Poulin- Chief Referee
Lloyd Campbell- Promoter & President of Tioga Velo Club
Team Placid Planet hosted the 2011 New York State Junior Road Race Championships and the 2011 New York State Criterium Championships for all ages as part of its Adirondack North Country Race Weekend June 11 and 12 in Wilmington and Saranac Lake New York.
The Wilmington-Whiteface Road Race was held in changeable, wet, and somewhat chilly weather on Saturday with 272 participants starting in nine separate fields and 18 categories. 37 juniors competed in the New York State Road Race Championship races for ages 10 to 18, 15 from New York State.
Winning NYS Champions jerseys were:
The Saranac Lake Downtown Criterium, NYS Criterium Championship for the second year running, was held under likewise changeable weather on Sunday and 162 riders braved the elements — torrential downpours at times! — to toe the line.
Championship events for all eligible categories yielded the following winners of NYS Champions jerseys:
As encouraged by NYSBRA and supported with a NYSBRA grant, free entry was extended to reigning New York State Champions in both events (in the specific disciplines that is).