Jack Rabbit Stampede, Forney High School Stadium, 7:30 a.m. Benefiting the Forney Lions Club. Routes of 100K, 15 and 40 miles. $20 before Aug. 15, $25 afterward. 972-564-3247 or 972-564-1113.
Tour de Gap – Buffalo Gap, TX
The bicycle race that winds through some of the more hilly parts of Taylor County takes place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The race begins and ends in Buffalo Gap, and coincides with the most prestigious cycling race in the world, the Tour de France.
Cyclists of all experiences can find a race to participate in — the Tour offers race lengths of 10, 25, 48 and 70 miles. There also will be a family route available. The Tour de Gap will take participants on two-lane roads, past wind turbines and along highways south of Buffalo Gap.
To register for the event, cyclists can go to Biketown, 1433 S. 1st St. and pay a preregistration fee of $25. Registration on Saturday costs $30.
For more information, contact race director Dodie Wooldridge at Biketown at 677-BIKE.
Madeleine McDuff Trains for National Junior Cycling Championships
Practice, practice, practice is the mantra of 13-year-old Firethorne resident Madeleine McDuff, a highly focused young cyclist training for her first-ever national junior cycling competition later this summer.
The 5-foot, 2-inch seventh grader, founder and president of the Beckendorff Junior High School Cycling Club in Katy, practices three to four times a week for up to 50 miles. She works with her trainer, former National Cycling Champion and U.S. Team Member Garth Blackburn (of Sugar Land), rides with the Katy-based Team Spincycle, an adult team that pedals 30 miles every Sunday morning, and cross-trains during the off-season at Firethorne to gear up for the USA Cycling Junior National Track Championships this August at the ADT Event Center in Carson, CA.
Texas 4000 Cyclists Near Alaska
from princegeorgecitizen.com
A group of cyclists in the midst of a fund-raising journey from Texas to Alaska are staying in style at CNC during a two-day break in Prince George.
The college has donated 19 rooms at its residence that will accommodate the first group of riders participating in the Texas 4000 for Cancer. The Rockies group departed June 7 from Austin, Tex…
…The cyclists arrived in Prince George Sunday. After a day of rest Monday, they pedal 60 miles to Vanderhoof on Tuesday. Their journey ends Aug. 14 in Sutton, Alaska.