Nebraska Cycling News

Ponca's Revenge, event #4 of the Nebraska Lottery Psycowpath Series will be Saturday, June 21st at Ponca State Park, 2 miles north of Ponca, Nebraska.

Hosted for the 3rd consecutive year by SC Velo, the past two years this race has been a Marathon event but for 2008 it has evolved into a cross country race and it will also serve as the Nebraska State Mountain Bike Championship.

The postponed Nebraska Lottery/Psycowpath races at Manawa and Lewis and Clark Monument have changed again.

The Manawa Mayhem race will go back to it's original date of September 27th, and will be hosted by Velo Veloce.

The race at Lewis & Clark is cancelled for 2008.  The main reason for the cancellation is due to the need to reroute the entrance. This has been slowed due to weather delays and a change-over in Council Bluff's Parks and Recreation Department. Psycowpath felt in order for THOR to do it's job properly and without pressure, removing the race from the calendar was the best solution. We'll miss it but the hope is that it will be back bigger and better next year.

In the meantime, get ready for the next XC race at Ponca. It's been a marathon event the last few seasons. We suspect this year we're going to see a record turnout. With Jay and his Sioux City Velo crew in charge, we have no doubts!

See you on the start line!

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