Race Across The Plains

Auburn Flyers' Race Weekend

Registration

Registration will begin @ 7:00 AM and will close at 8:15 AM sfor the time trial. PLEASE PRE-REGISTER by e-mailing the attached Excel sheet to Laura Steele. Save Excel sheet as your team name + registration For Example if we are registering Team Florida, save the file as:

Team Florida Registration

DAY ONE - Saturday March 29th, 2008

Individual Time Trial

The time trial will be an out and back of 8 miles. This is literally rolling hills. It is on the same course as the road race. The time trial will start at 8:30.

Start Order:

Women's B

Men's C

Women's A

Men's B

Men's A

Road Race

The road race is an 12 mile course in the middle of Macon County at the same place as the time trial course. Rolling hills, triangle course. Neutral roll out from parking area. Registration will re-open for the road race @ 11:30 and will close again at 12:45. The course is 20 - 30 minutes outside of town so it is suggested that you bring your lunch with you.

Start Times & Distances:

Men's A	1:00pm	72 miles
Men's B	1:05pm	48 miles
Women's A	1:10pm	48 miles
Men's C	1:15pm	24 miles
Women's B	1:20pm	24 miles

Directions

Southbound on I-85

Take exit 58 (The Tiger Town Exit) turn left on Gateway Dr. then right on to County Rd. 54 (Society Hill Rd.) for 14 miles.(You will come to a T) At stop sign, turn right on to US 80 for 1/4 mile then left onto County Rd 26. Parking 1/4 mile on the Right.

Northbound on I-85

Take exit 42 turn on to State Road 186 / US 80 for 12 miles, Turn right onto County Road 26. Parking 1/4 mile on the Right.

*The easiest directions are the Southbound directions and are the easiest if coming from campus. Just take a right off the exit instead of a left.

Parking

In the field beside the church.

DAY TWO - Saturday March 30th, 2008

Individual Time Trial

Same crit course as last year. You better wear bib shorts for this one because you'll be riding by the seat of your pants. We start off at 8: 30 AM. Registration starts @ 7:15.

Start Times & Distances:

Men's C	8:30am	30 min + 3 laps
Women's B	9:05am	30 min + 3 laps
Men's B	9:40am	45 min + 3 laps
Women's A	10:30am	45 min + 3 laps
Men's A	11:20am	60 min + 3 laps

*We reserve the right to run ahead of schedule and to combine the women's fields based on number of entrants

Prizes: You get Spirit Points aka points towards Natties and possible upgrade points.

Directions

Southbound on I-85

Take a right off of Exit 51 onto College St. (You should pass Wal-Mart on your right). Keep going until you get to the intersection of College and Magnolia Ave. (You'll see Toomer's Corner). Take a Left onto Magnolia. Go down Magnolia until the next traffic light. Take a left onto Donahue. You are now on one of the roads for the course. At the next stop light, take a left into the Lowder parking lot. You can take a right and end up in C-Zone, but Lowder is right behind the start/finish of the crit, plus there are rest rooms in Lowder.

Northbound on I-85

Directions are the same except you take a left off of the interstate.

Also, we are thinking about putting on a dinner if there is enough interest so people don't have to worry about crowded restaurants if you don't want to. It will be spaghetti, meatballs, sauce, salad, gatorade, water, and cookies. The cost will be $3 a plate. Take care and see y'all soon!