Trying my hand at some wordsmithing: First of all we always want to thank the racers for traveling to Syracuse for the 22nd Race Weekend and providing a very competitive field, and our volunteers who always make our race the fun and well run event that it always is.  We got the best feedback ever from the racers this year and the changes we made to the Crit venue and our prompt results were appreciated by everybody involved.  The stars aligned to provide great weather all weekend long, where we enjoyed a lot of fast and fun racing. Over the 22 years we’ve been holding this race, we’ve always been looking to make adjustments to the format and venues for Race Weekend to keep it competitive for racers and fun for spectators.  We’ve don’t have all of the details for 2018 worked out just yet, but based on the feedback and surveys we’ve done, we can tell you that we are making some changes that everyone should enjoy. Next year the omnium will be a 3 event, 2 day race. That will make travel and cost a lot easier for everybody. We promise to make things compact and easier for everyone to get to the venues and have time in between to adequately prepare. We are still planning on exactly what event will be eliminated but the omnium will definitely still include the road race. The date will most likely be in late July 2018 when the Road Race schedule is otherwise very sparse. So stay tuned and we will keep everyone posted on what will be happening for next years race. If you have any feedback or ideas please let us know. We are open to everyone and every idea. This is all about putting on an event that we can all have fun with. Todd Relyea On Sunday, July 9, 2017, 8:55:28 PM EDT, Chuck Dominick chuckdominick@PROTECTED [OCC_Race_Committee] <occ_race_comm@onondagacyclingclub.org> wrote: First of all we always want to thank the racers for traveling to Syracuse and providing a very competitive field and our volunteers who always make our race the fun and well run event that it always is. We got the best feed back ever from the racers this year and the changes we made to the Crit venue and our prompt results were appreciated by everybody involved. But….unless you were Canadian or Australian, you probably weren’t there. We put on a world class event and the fields were way to small to continue the event the way we have for the past 22 years so we are making some changes for next year. Changes that will make the race more fun for everybody involved. Next year the omnium will be a 3 event, 2 day race. That will make travel and cost a lot easier for everybody. We promise to make things compact and easy for everyone to get to the venues and have time in between to readily prepare. We are still planning on exactly what event will be eliminated but the road race will definitely be in. The date most likely will be in late July when the RR schedule is pretty anemic. So stay tuned and we will keep everyone posted on what will be happening for next years race. If you have any feedback or ideas please let us know. We are open to everyone and every idea. This is all about putting on an event that we can all have fun with. -- * Post:     mailto:occ_race_comm@onondagacyclingclub.org * Manage Your Subscription: http://lists.onondagacyclingclub.org/mail.cgi/profile_login/brewer13210/yahoo.com/ * Request Removal: http://lists.onondagacyclingclub.org/mail.cgi/t/REMOVED/ -- * Post:     mailto:occ_race_comm@onondagacyclingclub.org * Manage Your Subscription: http://lists.onondagacyclingclub.org/mail.cgi/profile_login/brewer13210/yahoo.com/ * Request Removal: http://lists.onondagacyclingclub.org/mail.cgi/t/REMOVED/ OCC_Race_Committee Post to: OCC_Race_Committee ( occ_race_comm@onondagacyclingclub.org ) Manage Your Subscription Request Removal