 Warmer temps has Spring knocking at the door. Looking closely at the early 2016 TBRA race schedule, a sense of excitement and nervousness sets in. It's been a long off-season and there are embers smoldering in the belly. All the more reason to weigh caution when balancing the serious nature of adding another set of intervals versus that 3rd donut. Here's a little fire starter for you: Returning for 2016, The Cedar Hill Criterium and The Hell of the South road race, race weekend is scheduled for Apr 9th & 10th. Maximizing your time in Nashville this Spring weekend, our devilish friends at Hell of the South have decided to add the Varken Berg Time Trial to their lineup! Our operatives tell us to expect a lumpy and intense (like our friend Marshall Bassett ) short 3 mile effort. An epic time trial course with flame throwers and beer(*two of these are for certain). Sunday, April 10th, the Cedar Hill Criterium returns for it's 5th year. We listed a number of exciting elements below, notably payout kickers for Cat 3 Women and Cat 2 Men, oh, and this fun community race video.
 Return of the #HOSERS Canadian Press Announcement on the return of the Canadian National Amatuer team, Apogée-Lowest Rates Équiope Cycliste Élite, our friends just north of our border. Back story: The #HOSERS came down to Nashville in 2015 for a week long team camp, tons of miles, and Molson Golden. A lot of miles and laughs and some hot bike racing action at Hell of the South and Cedar Hill Criterium. We look forward to seeing all of our friends beer and donuts at the 2016 Cedar Hill Criterium REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN  2015 Men's 3 race. Photo credit David Kinkaid.
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Grab some eggnog, unwrap that cheese log, and watch this. Our special gift to you. From everyone at The Cedar Hill Criterium, have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. T-minus 100 days to 2016 #CHCRIT Special thanks to all the great contributing sponsors of the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium, our partners at the Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce, and to the unicorn whisperer, Moustache-Johnny, for his generous contributions with the hollywood camera/editing.  2015 Cedar Hill Criterium race village
 Red Kite's Patrick Harkins rocketed to the Elite Masters win. Photo credit: Eddie Helton. http://www.eddieheltonphotography.com/Sports/Cycling  Smell Canadian Bacon? Yeah, that sizzle was the culmination of a week-long Canadian Nat'l team camp in Nashville, maple syrup, #HOS, lot's of beer, #CHCRIT..oh, and this The rest of the season was, typical TBRA style, pretty dang awesome. Tennessee Bicycle Racing Association promoters from all corners of our volunteer state gave you hammer heads more than >60 permitted events this year. Dang. that's a lot of kick butt racing throughout the year! For the numbers geek: TBRA's road director Nathan Stone reports supremo-growth for the skinny tires this year. We're stoked to bring you another full weekend of hard racing and great family fun in 2016. Our friends over at Hell of the South RR have been busy in their secret laboratory, God only knows what kind of beautiful nightmare they'll dream up for ya'll. You're still reading?!....You should probably put down your phone and go try on that nice onsie that Mammie got you.  Happy New Year! Road season's wrapping-up, and you know what that means! Cooler temps, whisky-season, rubber chickens and knobby tires #Heckleme #UrbanCX #CedarHill2016 is in full planning mode - but for the moment let's have some real fun (legally)! Keep Calm Race Cross: 2015 Brickyard Lager Throw-Down. Sat. Sept. 19th, Noon-Dark. Registration is open. 
  Best of luck to everyone about to romp and at Hell of the South! CEDAR HILL CRITERIUM UPDATE: OVERALL ELITE 1/2/3 RACES: $1600-10 deep + (4)$100 Primes 1st- $500 + HearingPlanet ear buds ($239 ret. value) + Cedar Hill Growler Trophy 2nd - $250 + OS Nutrition Pack 3rd - $125 4th - $100 + Sufferfest training video 5th - $85 6th - $80 7th - $75 8th - $55 9th - $45 10th -$35 Elite Cat 2 1st finisher - $150 bonus + Growler + OS Nutrition Pack Elite Cat 3 1st finisher $100 bonus +Growler + OS Nutrition Pack Juniors Race FREE FREE Intro to Bike Racing Clinic (Sat. Apr. 11th) FREE Beginners Race 8am Free Kiddos Race at Noon Sunday, April 12th, 2015 Cedar Hill Park, Madison, TN Get Some Pre-reg. open to 5pm CST. Sat Apr. 11th  Free Kiddos Race at noon! YOUR 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium AWESOME SPONSORS
Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce Nashville Police Dept. Madison Precinct Clearline Network VW of Cool Springs Bailey's Wrecker Service Hearing Planet RB's Cyclery, Franklin GIRO POWERBOAT Shimano OS Sports Nutrition Biker's Choice of Hendersonville Martindale Cycling Components Swiftwick Local Taco Smoothie King 'Lil Harpeth Brewery Sufferfest Training Videos Chick-Fil-A Nashville Metro Parks TN Bicycle Racing Association Team Belgium TN High Scholl Mtb League Endeavor Performance All the cool bradduhs at Treehouse Racing  Best of luck to everyone about to romp and at Hell of the South! CEDAR HILL CRITERIUM UPDATE: OVERALL ELITE 1/2/3 RACES: $1600-10 deep + (4)$100 Primes 1st- $500 + HearingPlanet ear buds ($239 ret. value) + Cedar Hill Growler Trophy 2nd - $250 + OS Nutrition Pack 3rd - $125 4th - $100 + Sufferfest training video 5th - $85 6th - $80 7th - $75 8th - $55 9th - $45 10th -$35 Elite Cat 2 1st finisher - $150 bonus + Growler + OS Nutrition Pack Elite Cat 3 1st finisher $100 bonus +Growler + OS Nutrition Pack Juniors Race FREE FREE Intro to Bike Racing Clinic (Sat. Apr. 11th) FREE Beginners Race Free Kiddos Race at noon!   Growler trophies for *Cedar Hill Champions, will look so fine displayed upon your fireplace mantle, for all to know how awesome you are. LittleHarpeth Brewing filled. *winning overall category Sunday, April 12th, 2015 Cedar Hill Park, Madison, TN Get Some Pre-reg. open to 5pm CST. Sat Apr. 11th YOUR 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium AWESOME SPONSORS
Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce Nashville Police Dept. Madison Precinct Clearline Network VW of Cool Springs Bailey's Wrecker Service Hearing Planet RB's Cyclery, Franklin GIRO POWERBOAT Shimano OS Sports Nutrition Biker's Choice of Hendersonville Martindale Cycling Components Swiftwick Local Taco Smoothie King 'Lil Harpeth Brewery Sufferfest Training Videos Chick-Fil-A Nashville Metro Parks TN Bicycle Racing Association Team Belgium TN High Scholl Mtb League Endeavor Performance All the cool bradduhs at Treehouse Racing  For the record, we don't know WTH these chicas are doing, but they're wearing Swiftwick socks, and look to be having a damn good time #Swiftwick Swiftwick Socks Good socks = Happy Tootsies. So when our friends at Swiftwick reached-out and said "hey, can we come over an massage your lil piggies and slide some of deez on your feet?"...we were like "WHOA, need a beer there first, Homie"...haha, just kidding, that's actually not anywhere near the truth, but it sounded funny. Swiftwick did reach out and we're sure somebody's funky feet are gone be happy - 30 pairs of socks to some lucky devils! #THATSRIGHT! #PRIMESGALORE! See you this Sunday at Cedar Hill. Pre-Reg is open until Sat. 5pm CST. Come by the Swiftwick tent and say hello, ask for the Italian massage.   Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia Please join us in welcoming for first year sponsors, MTSA, Midde-TN School of Anesthesia. MTSA will be on-site, supporting our Cedar Hill's Medical Director, Steven Ragle, MD. We're stoked to have extra helpers for Dr. Ragle, so he can really focus on figuring out what in the world he broke on his bike before his giant self got shelled... In all seriousness, we're pleased to have MTSA on-board as your event medical staff, they'll be manning two separate medical tents, just in case this happens on the back side of the course and your team is left in shambles... Seriously, stop by if you happen to get a boo-boo, we'll take care of you, or, just pour some of that orange burn-like-bejeebus-ointment on there and say "it's fine, drink this"...but we'd rather you just stop by and say hello and check out the booth!  Say hello to the Ether Bunny #hippty #hoppty  Sat. Apr. 11th,2015 Hell of the South https://hellofthesouth.wordpress.com Sat. Apr. 11th,2015 Hell of the South
Sun. Apr. 12th, Cedar Hill Criterium *Cedar Hill Criterium's Treasure Chest: P123 races - $1600 Equal Cash Payouts + (4) $100 equal cash primes! Winners of all categories also get Hearing Planet earbuds ($239 value) All 4th place finishers get a FREE Sufferfest training videos. Special Prime Gift for Women's Elite 123 Thank you, Emily Magli! OS Performance Nutrition drink packs for podium finishers! (10) Trophy Growlers for adult winners! Juniors RACE FREE -TN Bicycle Racing Assoc. and Treehouse Racing FREE KIDS RACE at Noon- Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce, Smoothie King, Baskin Robbins, Chick-Fil-A, Shimano, THANK YOU! Sound and Race Radio sponsored by The Biker's Choice, Hendersonville! Podium Celebrations including photography flowers and champagne brutes! RB's Cyclery of Franklin & Treehouse Racing are providing your race support & great SWAG. Invite your friends to a fun day at the park! Never raced before? - FREE skills clinic on Sat. Apr. 11th, 1-4pm FREE beginners race! -courtesy of Treehouse Racing Safe, wide roads. Fast challenging course. Host housing available. A stone's throw from I-65. Easy in. Easy out. Great food. Music. Drinks. Smoothie King Truck East Nashville Local Taco Lil Harpeth Brewery Skips Links Registration for #CHCRIT is now open *applies to Cedar Hill Criterium only. HOS and CHCRIT are actually separate events, but we share the same half a brain when it comes to race promotion and are equally adept at drinking your entire Cat 123 team under the table...try us on that one, we dare yah (loser pays the tab).  Registration for #CHCRIT is now open Emily Magli Wife. Mother. Bike Racer. Lingerie Designer & returning sponsor of Women's 123 Race (prime) Many of ya'll may recognize Emily from her time of indentured servitude as Cedar Hill's Queen of Race Registration. Most of us Middle-TN dudes love to watch her drop the hammer on her sandbagging husband and then drink him under the table later. heh heh. Over the years, Emily has been so very generous with her time and now her business (*she's also in real estate if ya'll need a solid agent!) My vernacular is just not capable of aptly describing such things (she would kill me if I call these pajamas or drawers...), here's the word from the pro-designer herself: "I specialize in making garments from high quality silks and cottons. The garments may be worn for sleepwear, daywear, or evening wear. I make each item upon order. I also use many couture techniques that add an heirloom quality and beauty to the garment." For more information, please click thru to Emily's Facebook Page  oh yeah we almost forgot, PRO 123 Ladies, Emily has sponsored a prime for the Women's 123 race: A White Silk Kimono (similar to this one pictured here), designed and handmade by Emiyl Magli (Valued at $200).
 HELL OF THE SOUTH. A True Classic Style Race… In middle Tennessee Sat. Apr. 11th,2015 Hell of the South https://hellofthesouth.wordpress.com Sun. Apr. 12th, Cedar Hill Criterium *Cedar Hill Criterium's Treasure Chest: P123 races - $1600 Equal Cash Payouts + (4) $100 equal cash primes! Winners of all categories also get Hearing Planet earbuds ($239 value) All 4th place finishers get a FREE Sufferfest training videos. Special Prime Gift for Women's Elite 123 Thank you, Emily Magli! OS Performance Nutrition drink packs for podium finishers! (10) Trophy Growlers for adult winners! Juniors RACE FREE -TN Bicycle Racing Assoc. and Treehouse Racing FREE KIDS RACE at Noon- Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce, Smoothie King, Baskin Robbins, Chick-Fil-A, Shimano, THANK YOU! Sound and Race Radio sponsored by The Biker's Choice, Hendersonville! Podium Celebrations including photography flowers and champagne brutes! RB's Cyclery of Franklin & Treehouse Racing are providing your race support & great SWAG. Invite your friends to a fun day at the park! Never raced before? - FREE skills clinic on Sat. Apr. 11th, 1-4pm FREE beginners race! -courtesy of Treehouse Racing Safe, wide roads. Fast challenging course. Host housing available. A stone's throw from I-65. Easy in. Easy out. Great food. Music. Drinks. Smoothie King Truck East Nashville Local Taco Lil Harpeth Brewery Skips Links Registration for #CHCRIT is now open *applies to Cedar Hill Criterium only. HOS and CHCRIT are actually separate events, but we share the same half a brain when it comes to race promotion and are equally adept at drinking your entire Cat 123 team under the table...try us on that one, we dare yah (loser pays the tab). Can't thank these amazing sponsors enough:  Our generous title sponsor - they've been a Godsend and the reason the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium is able to provide great payouts this year! http://www.clearline.net  Hallmark VW of Cool Springs, 620 Bakers Bridge Ave, Franklin, TN 37067 (615) 236-3200 Hallmark VW of Cool Springs returns as the Official Race Vehicle for the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium. This year you'll see the:  The 2015 VW Golf Sportwagen as the Official Lead Vehicle at the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium.  The 2015 VW GTI as the Official Follow Vehicle at the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium. The 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium Podium presentations will be book-ended by one of the VW Golf Family and/or a Tiguan.   Bailey's Wrecker Service as our Presenting Sponsor!  Hearing Planet returns as your Podium Sponsor for 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium. LISTEN UP RACERS! We've got something you're gonna wanna hear!! The 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium is excited to announced that HearingPlanet is back as a presenting sponsor at the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium! HearingPlanet will be presenting winners of each race (14 total) with a set of Audéo Perfect Fit Earphones with Microphone ($239 value)!!! That's over $3k worth of headphones! #WHOOP What does mean for you, you're wondering?? Here's what: Gonna be like Barry White whispering sweet lovelies in your ears Deeper and deeper. Sweeter and sweeter. Give it up….  RC Matthews Construction! We can't thank Walker and the crew at R.C. Matthews. They're doing some amazing work in our beautiful city, and we've a belly full of stoke to get them involved with the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium! They'll be providing (4)$100 cash primes for the PRO Women's 123 race!  Jeff Summers State Farm Insurance returns as a cash-prime sponsor for the Men's Cat 3 and Elite Masters cash primes. Jeff's a consummate professional and friend of the sport. We can't thank him enough for his support (and the insurance services he provides!). Please welcome Summers State Farm!  RB'S Cyclery of Franklin, TN! We can't begin to express how thankful we are to have Jay and Rod, and Kat Williams (read:mostly Katt) support the Cedar Hill Criterium! They are our operational gurus! They help us get set-up, they provide a maintenance tent for the cyclists, they provide swag for the kiddos and they're generally all around great people to work with! If you ever need a bike, or some bike "stuff", please do yourself a favor and go see one of the fellas at RB's in Franklin; you won't be disappointed! 
 Dave Hardin and the guys at Biker's Choice return as the Official Sound Sponsors for the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium! Please stop by and check out the awesome bikes they have and amazing customer service! Great group of folks that we're proud to say support your exciting community event! Thank You, Biker's Choice!
 Sufferfest is providing free torture chambers for all 4th place finishers  Emly Magli is providing a $200 White Silk Komono as a prime for the Pro Women's 123 race!  Shimano is providing podium medals TO ALL CHILDREN that complete the FREE Cedar Hill kids race! Baskin Robbins, Chick-Fil-A & Smoothie King are all providing FREE snacks to all kiddos that complete the Cedar Hill Kids Race!     Local Taco EAST NASHVILLE 1100 Fatherland St. Suite 104 Nashville, TN 37206 (615) 454-6892 We're not just full of beans & salsa when we say East Nashville's Local Taco is our official food vendor for the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium! They'll be on-site dishing great tacos and beer in our main tent. We hope you'll stop by and grab a few chicken tacos a cold beer and and enjoy some of the day's races from the main tent. If you're in the area check out the new East Nashville location, especially on Margarita Mondays - $4 'rita's all day long! WHOOP WHOOP! The Local Taco, East Nashville 1100 Fatherland St. Suite 104 Nashville, TN 37206 (615) 454-6892 
Smoothie King West End - Smoothie King Truck So thankful for the Hunter and his awesome crew who are from Smoothie King West End and are generously providing free smoothies for the Cedar Hill Kids Race (free childs smoothie), winners of the Junior races and for race day volunteers. No worries though, they'll also be selling smoothies on-site, so please stop by and grab one for the road after your race!
Chick-Fil-A Goodlettsville, TN Can't thank them enough - they're back for the 2nd year in-a-row, providing gift certificates to all the kiddos who participate in the noon kids race! Thank You, Chick-Fil-A Goodlettsville!   Baskin Robbins Thankful for such generous sponsors of our kids race, Baskin Robbins, Madison, is back on-board and providing all kiddos who participate in the 2015 Cedar Hill Kids Race with free Baskin Robbins coupons! Skips Links Skip's Links will be at the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium dishing out the amazing $2 hot dog!  Intro. to Bike Racing, Sat. Apr. 11th, 2-5pm, Cedar Hill Park, Madison, TN Free Pizza & Drinks sponsored by the generous support of the Electric Service Credit Union. They're also providing great swag bags!   You left us too soon, Lord of the Gravel. You will be missed. Love and Prayers to the Kortness family. Rest in Peace, Bryan Kortness. Hell of the South, Sat. Apr. 11th Cedar Hill Criterium, Sun. Apr. 12th Juniors race Free Equal Payouts Great Swag Tough, Challenging, Safe Course Food, Music & a Beautiful Park Get Some   _ Treehouse Racing is excited to announce the Canadian UCI Team Santé Universelle // Marin_ Bikes has selected the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium as their Canadian Spring Break to wrap up their 2-week team training camp.  Santé Universelle // Marin Bikes Cycling Team: - Anthony Barrette UCI -Robert Hargrove UCI -BEN Andrew UCI - Jean Sebastien Perron UCI - Frédérick Gates UCI -Olivier Lapointe (junior rider) UCI As such, we decided to create something special for everyone. Treehouse Racing & the Madison Chamber of Commerce, together with our partnering sponsors ClearLine Network, VW Cool Springs & Lil Harpeth Brewery are please to introduce the: 2015 Cedar Hill KOM and CANADIAN Beer Mile Challenge! Our already well funded event just got a major boost of Canadian Bacon and the Maple Leaf, Aye! Here's how it's gonna go down. Pre-reg for both Hell of the South and Cedar Hill Criterium (click here) and you're automatically entered into the contest for FREE Deets: 1. Unload your watt bombs on all 4 bumps. see photo above 2. Finish Top-20 in your race an official result. 3. Finish within the top 20 for all (4) 2015 Cedar Hill KOMs Challenge from any USAC/TBRA sanctioned races (Cat-5, Masters, Women Cat 4 PRO123 etc) 4. Those Top 20 winners WIN *$100 cash money! Simple! Have to pre-reg to qualify! 5. Top 20 Winners also get to a special podium photo w/our beautiful podium ladies, Event Title Sponsor & CEO Clearline Network, Brad Johnson, VW GM Aaron Hendrickson & Santé Universelle // Marin Bikes Cycling Team Director Sportiff, Frédérick Gates Now here's the kicker. Take the Beer-Mile Challenge and turn that $100 into *$1,000 WHOA! 1 . Same as above. Fastest over 4 bumps (top 5) and finish your race, top 20. 2. . At the conclusion of the day's races, there will be a special event, co-sponsored by Lil Harpeth Brewery, Founder, Michael Kwas. All you have to do is line-up against some of the fastest Canadian beer drinkers/Milers & beat any of Canuck who are currently pre-registered for the 2015 Cedar Hill Beer Mile (click thru the link for a brief demonstration vid) important to remember in official beer mile rules, you barf, you out. That's it. Beat a Frog WIN *$1 THOUSAND CASH MONAY! CHA-CHING! 5. Entry into the KOM/Beer Mile Challenge is free & only available to those preregister. It's that simple. If you want the big cheese you have to double-down for the miler glory! Registration is now open. Get some!   *obviously most of this is complete baloney, which tbh, tastes so much better than Canadian bacon, don't you agree?
April Fools! However, we would encourage you to pre-reg, or we may quite possibly price-gouge the beejebus out of you. AND The Canadian UCI team Santé Universelle // Marin Bikes Cycling really is coming and they are pre-registered! So,you may as well pre-reg too. T-minus 12 days - See you Sunday, April 12th! 2015 Hell of the South 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium oh, and best hide your beer, 'cause next to Eli, only Canadians concern us when it comes to drinking our beer. Weekend Musings. Sunny King happened this weekend. Damn they put on a big event. Congrats to everyone involved and all those who raced including the big fella (hope you're all good, mate). Moving on. Secret intelligence (Strava) picked-up on a significant amount of activity South of Smashville, which can only be interpreted as a number of 2015 Hell of the South recon missions, or, quite possibly, double-coupon day at the Lewisburg Cracker Barrel. Early return is the mad scientists at HoS designed a course is w/pain and beauty at a premium resulting in what will assuredly be a spectacular day of racing. A 21 mile loop with 3 nasty bumps and equally treacherous descents, long slogs into what could be amazing head/side winds, and if there's rain, oh sweet baby Jesus. Marshall, Sir, you have created a monster. Chapeau, my friend. Sat. April 11th, 2015 Hell of the South Registration for #HOS is now open
Sunday, Apr. 12th, Cedar Hill Criterium  *Cedar Hill Criterium's Treasure Chest:
P123 races - $1600 Equal Cash Payouts + (4) $100 equal cash primes! Winners of all categories also get Hearing Planet earbuds ($239 value) All 4th place finishers get a FREE Sufferfest training videos. Special Prime Gift for Women's Elite 123 Thank you, Emily Magli! OS Performance Nutrition drink packs for podium finishers! (10) Trophy Growlers for adult winners! Juniors RACE FREE -TN Bicycle Racing Assoc. and Treehouse Racing FREE KIDS RACE at Noon- Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce, Smoothie King, Baskin Robbins, Chick-Fil-A, Shimano, THANK YOU! Sound and Race Radio sponsored by The Biker's Choice, Hendersonville! Podium Celebrations including photography flowers and champagne brutes! RB's Cyclery of Franklin & Treehouse Racing are providing your race support & great SWAG. Invite your friends to a fun day at the park! Never raced before? - FREE skills clinic on Sat. Apr. 11th, 1-4pm FREE beginners race! -courtesy of Treehouse Racing Safe, wide roads. Fast challenging course. Host housing available. A stone's throw from I-65. Easy in. Easy out. Great food. Music. Drinks. Smoothie King Truck East Nashville Local Taco Lil Harpeth Brewery Skips Links Registration for #CHCRIT is now open *applies to Cedar Hill Criterium only. HOS and CHCRIT are actually separate events, but we share the same half a brain when it comes to race promotion and are equally adept at drinking your entire Cat 123 team under the table...try us on that one, we dare yah (loser pays the tab).   Sun. Apr. 12th, Cedar Hill Criterium *Cedar Hill Criterium's Treasure Chest: P123 races - $1600 Equal Cash Payouts + (4) $100 equal cash primes! Winners of all categories also get Hearing Planet earbuds ($239 value) All 4th place finishers get a FREE Sufferfest training videos. Special Prime Gift for Women's Elite 123 Thank you, Emily Magli! OS Performance Nutrition drink packs for podium finishers! (10) Trophy Growlers for adult winners! Juniors RACE FREE -TN Bicycle Racing Assoc. and Treehouse Racing FREE KIDS RACE at Noon- Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce, Smoothie King, Baskin Robbins, Chick-Fil-A, Shimano, THANK YOU! Sound and Race Radio sponsored by The Biker's Choice, Hendersonville! Podium Celebrations including photography flowers and champagne brutes! RB's Cyclery of Franklin & Treehouse Racing are providing your race support & great SWAG. Invite your friends to a fun day at the park! Never raced before? - FREE skills clinic on Sat. Apr. 11th, 1-4pm FREE beginners race! -courtesy of Treehouse Racing Safe, wide roads. Fast challenging course. Host housing available. A stone's throw from I-65. Easy in. Easy out. Great food. Music. Drinks. Smoothie King Truck East Nashville Local Taco Lil Harpeth Brewery Skips Links Registration for #CHCRIT is now open *applies to Cedar Hill Criterium only. HOS and CHCRIT are actually separate events, but we share the same half a brain when it comes to race promotion and are equally adept at drinking your entire Cat 123 team under the table...try us on that one, we dare yah (loser pays the tab).  
 23 SNOW DAYS. 2 TRAINER TIRES = 1 race video
Lord Mighty Mouse has spoken. Sunday, April 12th, 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium Registration is now open #CHCRIT http://alabamawheelmen.org/hotscedar-hill-2014-sumners/
"Then he pulled on his pimp hat for the P/1/2/3 race and held onto that bull for a full hour. Chapeau to you my friend.” - Brian, you got a special kinda scribble going on there, and we dig that! Keep doing yo thang, boi. See you next month! http://egopbsammysbikes.com/hell-south-cedar-hill-crit/ “feeling comfortable as the field thinned from about 90 to 30 riders….launched a bit early into the sprint and was swarmed in the final 200 meters, and finished 10th.” You had’er dialed-in for sure..we would like to recommend fine-tuning your approach just a hair..this year go with just one double Ellison #boom http://texasroadhousecycling.com/2013/04/07/patrick-odonnell-takes-a-win-in-nashville/ They’ve won so many times here, we may as well call it the Cedar Hill/TXRH Criterium, ah….but not so fast my friends...Village VW… they’ve been very busy this offseason! There’s also a strong possibility of some foreign mavericks who may try to steal your top spot. Whatever the case, gonna be awesome fun and hard as nails racing - Good luck! http://teamwesports.com/2014/04/01/race-reports-hell-of-the-south-cedar-hill-criterium/ “At the last hill, attacks happened on the left and right, creating a massive sprint finish.” - Love the passion. We Ladies, keep bending those cranks and needles! Gonna be a good one this year! http://www.jacksonvelosports.com/cedar-hill-criterium-2014/ “There are a few mild hills and 2 turns on a good road, making a really nice race course.” …well, Tom Gee, that dude is just amazing. Rumor has it he did a 400k recently, to SOUTH freaking CAROLINA. Go on with yo bad self, Tom. We can’t wait to see that fitness in April! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grKYP9kFMn0 Resident beer drinker, watt-bomb5k, posted this vid shot from the trunk of the pace car....not bad for 6 or 7 beers and a bag phone *note:you may want to take a motion sickness pill before watching this. https://unsettledme.wordpress.com/2014/04/ "Cedar Hill was tough, and had a lot of climbing for a crit, but I was ready. Asheville isn’t the easiest place to ride with a standard 53/39, and I had been training for this. I kept waiting to blow up, but I never did. I attacked. I covered. I worked. I also hid for the last few laps, because I wanted to test out my new legs at the finish. And they didn’t let me down. I got 4th. Stoked. Sh0p Kitty, you’re such a inspiration. Thank you for bringing all things fun and stoke to events! Hold onto that passion and know that Big Uni watches over you. #Boston. You lucky devils. http://sadlebred.com/january-2015-news/ "Hell of the South and Cedar Hill have teamed up again for the first full weekend of TBRA RR and Crit racing, . Hell of the South offers gritty, Belgium style racing with less than ideal roads and typically early season cold, damp conditions. The following day Cedar Hill promises to be fast and thrilling. Over the past two seasons this race has grown to nearly 400 entries and is quickly building a reputation as one of the premier races in all of the southeast. “ Thanks, Saddlebred, we like our pals at HOS, they put on a kick-ass race and help make our double race weekend one of the best.…they also drink almost as much beer as we do, so we have that in common too.
5:00am.Good Morning (inhales coffee).
Last's years Introduction to Bike Racing and Skills Clinic was a such a tremendous success with nearly 50 cyclists attending the 4 hour skills clinic! Our spirited ignored the clouds and focused on 3 areas of cycling. packriding, pacelining, cornering, and each group spent 20-30 minutes discussing then 20-30 minutes practicing the teachings. All workshops included a focused element of bike safety, preparedness and confidence building. The clinic ended with a a review, certificates of completion, photos, goodie-bags provided by the Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce & PowerBar, and hot pizza and drinks! Check out more photos here! 2015 - We're excited to announce the return of our bike skills clinic for cyclists who are interested in a hands-on experience to learn more about bike racing. Please share with your friends who ride and might like to learn in a fun, safe and controlled environment. Sat. April 11th, 2015, Cedar Hill Park, 1-4pm. To learn more about this fun (and free) bike racing 101 clinic, click thru for the detail  BRRRR, cold one this morning...since my Tauntaun decided to crap out on me, I guess it's time to write an entry and throw this notion of the law of accelerating returns out there. In the world of AI (artificial intelligence) this is pretty hot topic right now, and if you're a bigger dork than I am, you'll def wanna spend the next 8 hours reading how one day your Garmin will race your bike for you, all you'll have to do is holler and drink beer. For the sake of time, try to get on point. We keep pushing our sponsors to help us bring you a race that's worthy of your time and commitment to the sport. And, in doing so, we've double-checked our calculations when considering bumping your payouts and distributing awesome swag. Proof is in the ipa... or something like that. Looking back at the inaugural 2005 Cedar Hill Crit, it was a sheer miracle we promoted a bicycle race. For all our efforts, the lack of any significant social media (Facebook was <1yr old and there was no such thing as tweeting)....for all intents and purposes, we were better off getting folks to our race if we went to your race and dropped some flyers (which we still do btw lol). In 2005, there were 163 racers, of which 18% (n=9) were ladies who raced (albeit those ladies were and still are, BADASS).....cool...initially we din't intend for this to be a women's specific entry, but hell, let's go that way, 'cause we do love our ladies that race, and want you ladies to bring your best game when you come here and pin a number on. Let's take a little deeper run down the history and data rabbit hole:
The Payouts? 2005 - We'll get to that in a moment. 2013 - P123, $400 5-deep. Solid. In 2013, we actually ran a higher payout for the Women's 123 race than for the Men's 123 (totally true - click thru for the proof!) and was only in the last hours that this one dude said, "okay okay, let's pay the dudes too"...he of House of Tree-Racing, that dude ;) Otherwise, '13 p/o's would have been heavily lopsided in favor of the ladies. 2014 - P123, $1,000 10-deep, +(4) $100 primes. That's more than a healthy bump. Right. Back to 2005. TBH, I have no earthly clue what we provided in 2005...probably something really cool and expensive like tubes, that weren't blown, more likely though, beer, which like gold, never loses its significance in the world of precious commodities. Agreed, our N is a still a little small right now, but we're off to a good start. 3 years. 3 races ('05,'13, '14), and here's what we have. For the ladies payouts, we've progressed from, tubes, to $400, to $1,000. That's about as Law of Accelerating Returns as I can make this. Increasing and exponential growth over time; at this rate, the 2020 race will be $1 meeeeelion dollars. Factor 2015 in and to be much more scientific, what MLP commonly refers to as the Law of Stacking dat Cheddah. For the sake of time and for the woman who likes to bend pedals, chick dudes, and could care less about such things Asimov, but does want a badass competitive race weekend in 2015 that's hard as nails with wide open & safe roads - here's what you need to know:
$1600-10 deep + (4)$100 Primes 1st- $500 + HearingPlanet ear buds ($239 ret. value) + Cedar Hill Growler Trophy 2nd - $250 + OS Nutrition Pack 3rd - $125 4th - $100 + Sufferfest training video 5th - $85 6th - $80 7th - $75 8th - $55 9th - $45 10th -$35 Elite Cat 2 1st finisher - $150 bonus + Growler + OS Nutrition Pack Elite Cat 3 1st finisher $100 bonus +Growler + OS Nutrition Pack  Additionally, all winners will receive flowers and this fine trophy as they step on the top step for our formal podium announcements. Trophies are filled with special love from our awesome beer sponsors at Nashville's own, Little Harpeth Brewing. Please share this with your friends that race, or are interested in racing, we also have a free Intro. to Bike Racing clinic and free 2-lap beginner's race. If you made it this far, we commend you. You obviously have too much free time on your hands, so, get to training, you got a race to win!  2014 Cedar Hill ELITE 123 Podium 1st Rosemary Penta, Clarksville-Schwinn, Louisville, KY 2nd Amanda Ragle, Team Belladium, Nashville, TN 3rd Shera Clark, Clarksville-Schwinn, Louisville, KY 4th Sierra Siebenlist, Scarlett Fire, Indianapolis, IN 5th Kailin Acheson, Team Belladium, Nashville, TN  LISTEN UP RACERS! We've got something you're gonna wanna hear!! The 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium is excited to announced that HearingPlanet is back as a presenting sponsor at the 2015 Cedar Hill Criterium! What does mean for you, you're wondering?? Here's what: Gonna be like Barry White whispering sweet lovelies in your ears Deeper and deeper. Sweeter and sweeter. Give it up…. That's right! Each podium winner wins a set of....Ok, before we go full BW on you (or scroll down for the cheddah), please read this brief blog entry from our newest sponsor, HearingPlanet: "Going to the Big Game? Bring Ear Plugs! As the saying goes, nothing says “America” like baseball and apple pie. And football and basketball too, for that matter. There’s nothing like being packed in a stadium with 50,000 or so of your closest friends, united in your love for the home team. One potential dangerous element of these sporting events, however, is the crowd noise. Earlier this fall, the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs each broke the Guinness world record for crowd noise, at 136dB and 137dB, respectively. For comparison sake, the sound of a jet engine from 100 feet away is about 140dB. At volumes like that, even a very short exposure can cause irreversible damage to your hearing. " *Dang. You may be the first cyclist to have actually learned something from reading our blog. Protect yo ears, fool! Keep Reading! Here's a little more about HearingPlanet HearingPlanet simplifies hearing care by providing easy access to a credentialed and endorsed Local Clinic for superior service, the widest selection of competitively priced hearing aids, and a trained Hearing Consultant to guide you toward the right solution. HearingPlanet is the largest national supplier of hearing care solutions with over 1,600 clinic locations throughout the country - ready to serve your needs. You can easily use our clinic finder to find the clinic nearest you. Our commitment, coupled with the highest quality in customer service and volume pricing discounts make HearingPlanet the smart choice when shopping for your hearing care needs. Please join me in welcoming our awesome new sponsor, and please check out their website at www.Hearingplanet.com  Here's the Race Cheddah!
HearingPlanet will be presenting winners of each race (14 total) with a set of Audéo Perfect Fit Earphones with Microphone ($239 value)!!! That's over $3k worth of headphones! #WHOOP This is like putting Barry White right in your earhole! Ideally suited for people on the move, the Audéo Perfect Fit Earphones 132 combines its light-weight, ergonomic fit with excellent sound quality and external noise cancellation to ensure the daily commute has never been so relaxing. With high-powered balanced armature drivers in each earpiece, the Audéo PFE 132 deliver enhanced sound precision and a highly-tuned listening experience. The Audéo PFE 132 comes with in-built Apple chip technology and is 100% compatibility with all Apple products. The earphone offer a hands-free function with microphone and volume control to enable remote volume control and call answering/ending - all at the touch of a button. The standard 3.5-milimeter jack is compatible with a wide variety of devices, from MP3 and DVD players as well as notebooks and media players. The microphone is compatible with the iPhone, Droid and other mobile digital devices. The earphones include two sets of interchangeable acoustic filters allowing the user to manually tailor a sound signature to suit individual taste. The Audéo PFE 132 also include three sizes of soft silicone ear tips and a set of Comply foam» tips, ensuring a perfect in-ear fit for maximum comfort and helping isolate unwanted ambient noise to delivering crystal-clear sound definition at a lower, safer volume. WHOA. Please join us in welcoming our awesome sponsor BACK! and please check out their website at www.Hearingplanet.com 2015 Race Registration is now open - Sun. Apt. 12th and remember - Juniors race FREE! |
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