Two Person Team Time Trial
Tour de Gruene Bicycle Classic 26.3 miles
Mark your calendar NOW!!
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
Click here for the OVERALL Results of the 2011 Team Time Trial
http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/11/news/rothe-and-jerman-win-tour-de-gruene-team-time-trial_197589
Please go to www.RxDesign.com for timeline on when to view pictures from this year's Tour de Gruene Team Time Trials.
CLICK HERE FOR 2011 S T A R T T I M E S TART TIMES AND DIVISIONS WILL BE POSTED HERE ON MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31ST
C l i c k H e r e to see the Overall Team Time Trial Results from 2010.
If you raced last year, please review the results carefully before going to registration. You need to be accurate on your estimated mph assessments. This will be a long download but it is critical that you review your last year's performance before registering.
Prior TdG participants will receive emails when registration is open for next year's event. If you would like to get on the mailing list for next year's 2012 Registration so you don't miss out, please send an email to tdgregistration@satx.rr.com and in the subject put ... "Put me on the Time Trials Email List for 2012 " and we'll make sure you get notified by email of next year's event. If you participated in this year's event, you will automatically receive notice.
Category Results from 2010 can be found in the General Information section below.
SUBSCRIBE TO LINKS BELOW FOR FACEBOOK OR TWITTER to receive announcement when registration opens!
2011 FACEBOOK Tour_de_Gruene_TEAM Time Trials Or Twitter.com/TourdeGruene
Families who play together.... stay together.
click here for the TTT Traditional Course Map
Start Times will be posted on this website about a week out from the event. We will facebook message members of the TTT page and we will Tweet on Twitter. At that time each team member should:
1) Download this Team Time Trial Liability Release Form
2) set your view to "print view"
3) Read the release form
4) TYPE your name and race info on the bottom, then PRINT
5) If you agree to the document terms, SIGN and DATE the form
6) Bring with you to packet pickup to speed the process.
The above Liability Release form is a Microsoft Word document designed from a Windows/Explorer environment. If you are unable to print the form on one page, you may obtain a form at packet pickup. Minors age 17 or younger may email tdgregistration@satx.rr.com for their specific release form. All forms will also be available on site.
"Optional" Early Packet Pick-up Party for pre-registered entrants will be held at San Antonio Bike World on 1604 on Thursday evening, November 3rd from 4:00-9:00 pm. EZ's is joining our party this year and providing some tasty eats. This is a really fun time to get together so we hope you can make it! Speed your process: download, type in the blanks, print and bring your liability release form with you (instructions above). Click here for Directions to Bike World 1604
G E N E R A L I N F O R M A T I O N
There will be a field limit
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Team Time Trials are a competition. The classic 26.3 mile race course is set on beautiful River Road and Hwy 306. Two person teams begin 30 seconds from the next team and then race 26.3 miles against the clock for awards in various gender, age, and ability categories. And YES we have a TANDEM division too! Teams will be seed started according to their supplied predicted average mph for the course. Last year's winner(s) and any course record holders are given the honor of being seeded last. The time of your 2nd teammate to cross the finish line is recorded. The top times in each category will be recognized.
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The first 250 teams to register by October 20th are in.
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Online registration fees are $40 per racer ($80 per team). There is no-mail in registration for this event.
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Team Captain will register both team members online at the same time. Captain will need to know:
BOTH teammate's email address, phone numbers, emergency contact name/numbers, t-shirt sizes, and date of birth
You must also BOTH agree on the predicted mph average over the 26.3 mile course you will be racing. If you raced last year, be sure and look at last year's results when making this prediction.
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CLICK_here to see last year's 2010 TTT Results by Categories
CLICK here to see last year's 2010 TTT Results by OVERALL TIMES (quick pdf)
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Click here to see last year's 2010 TTT OVERALL RESULTS with awards for mph TIME PREDICTIONS. Long Download but a MUST READ if you raced last year. This will help you to make an accurate mph prediction when you register this year.
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Online registration is scheduled to close Thursday, October 20th, 2011 @ midnight --- or sooner if the field limit is met.
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Each team member entered online is guaranteed a collector’s commemorative t-shirt ($15 value) AND an admission ticket to Wurstfest (an $8 value).
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We do not anticipate post registrations for this event but if so, walkup registrations will have no guarantee of Wurstfest tickets or t-shirts. In addition, registration fee for a walkup team entry is $90.
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All entrants will be required to sign an event specific liability release form at all packet pickups; therefore, you cannot pick up packets for your partner unless you have their Tour de Gruene TTT signed liability release form. You may download the form from a link given earlier on this page.
- Children under 18 (minors) must be registered by their adult legal guardian, submit a “Minor release form” signed by their legal guardian, who must also be present on event day. You must email tdgregistration@satx.rr.com for that release form.
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All entrants must wear an ANSI, Snell or ASTM approved securely fastened helmet whenever they are on their bike at any time.
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Entrants do not need any racing license to participate.
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Tour de Gruene awards are to be presented to top times in each division. Quantity of prizes awarded per category is dependant upon total entries per category.
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Your start times will be posted on this website several days prior to the event date. More about that to come.
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There are no refunds at any time once a team has registered (as online registration ceases when field limits are met). HOWEVER team member substitutions may be made (see guidelines below).
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No-Shows on event day will be listed as such in the results unless we are notified that your team is unable to compete.
Partner Substitutions info received by October 20th?
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Changing partners may place you into a different age, gender, and/or ability category. If your partner exchange form is received by midnight, October 20th, we will take the necessary steps to transfer your team into the new age, gender and/or ability category. There is a $10 administrative change fee to exchange a partner. The "new" partner will be responsible for that fee at packet pickup. Cash only.
Partner Substitutions after October 20th?
- After October 20th, receipt of partner substitution that changes a team out of the original age/gender/ability division for which it had registered places the "altered" team into the "Ride for Time" Division and their results will not be part of any specific age/gender/ability division competition. However --- they WILL compete in the overall results. There is a $10 change fee to exchange a partner. The "new" partner will be responsible for that fee at packet pickup. Cash only.
- OR, you may choose to ride the course alone and your time will be recorded as a SOLO hardship in the Ride For Time Division. Please notify us of this decision so officials will score accordingly.
To be eligible for Eddie Merckx style recognition, both riders must ride Merckx style.
- Five-time Tour de France champion Eddie Merckx rode in the Tour de Gruene Time Trials with teammate Lance Armstrong on Sunday, Nov. 10, 1996, in Gruene, Texas. Merckx joined Armstrong, who was recovering from cancer treatments, in the 26-mile time trial in central Texas. Merckx and Armstrong wore standard helmets, used standard wheels, and a standard kit of shorts and a jersey. We would like to note racers in our results who race without aero equipment. No aero helmets, suits, wheels, tear shaped frame tubes, aero bars. You will find a place on the registration form to note if this special recognition applies to your team.
We will also be giving recognition to anyone who races "RETRO" Style.
- This would be any team utilizing steel frame and fork bikes; OR, single speed bikes. You will find a place on the registration form to make note if this special designation applies to your team.
Families who play together.... stay together.
- You will find a place on the registration form to be recognized if you are racing with another member of your immediate family!!
Schedule for the Two-Person Team Time Trials
All entrants will be required to sign an event specific liability release form at all packet pickups; therefore, you cannot pick up for your partner unless you have their Tour de Gruene TTT signed release form (info on obtaining forms will be in online registration confirmation email).
- November 3rd, Thursday, 4:00-9:00 p.m. OPTIONAL Packet Pickup for all Tour de Gruene events @BikeWorld 1604 in San Antonio.
- November 5th Morning Packet Pickup @ Gruene Hall 7:00 - 9:00 a.m.
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November 5th Afternoon Packet Pickup at ITT Start Line near bridge 1:00 pm to 4:00 p.m.
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November 6th Morning Packet Pickup @ Gruene Hall 6:30 - 9:30 a.m.
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First Team begins at 7:45 a.m. ----
Placement of race numbers are is as follows:
Large number – back bottom center (over rear center jersey -viewed from behind)
Medium number – front of racer’s right arm bicep (to be viewed from the front)
Smallest number – stick onto front of helmet (to be viewed head on)
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Awards Ceremony with raffle prizes following the event in Gruene Hall.
WEATHER CLAUSE: If inclement weather, this event may be slightly delayed or cancelled. That information will be put on facebook and sent out in a Tweet. No refunds. You may still pick up your t-shirts and Wurstfest tickets and the charity, Sally M Kingsbury Sarcoma Cancer Foundation will still benefit.
Gruene Hall www.gruenehall.com (Lodging links also)
Pictures from the 2010 TTT are on www.RxDesign.com
Photo coverage for last year's 2009 Team Time Trials was provided by Rxdesign. They have covered the Tour de Gruene events since 2001 preserving lasting memories of this time honored event. Click_Here to go to RXdesign to view pictures from the 2009 event.
Click Here to see 2009 TTT Results by Categories (2 years ago)
Click Here to see 2009 TTT Results by OVERALL TIMES (2 years ago)
