This weekend features a new cyclocross race, The Epic Holiday Cyclocross. The event will be held at the Tuileries Plaza in the Northland of Kansas City. The venue is about 1/2 mile west of I-29 on Highway 45. Highway 45 is also named Tom Watson Parkway. And while we don't have racing every day of the week during the holiday break like in Belgium, we continue the season to the Grote Prijs Shawnee held in Herman Laird Park on January 6th. Herman Laird Park is on Johnson Drive in Shawnee between Nieman and Quivira (it is also the site of "Old Shawnee Town"). The Grote Prijs is the final event of the De Stad Kansas Cyclocross Series and is a very popular event.
Following the local races a number of metro area athletes are heading off to Belgium for the UCI Masters Cyclocross World Championships. The localcycling.com crew may have room for an additional person in the posse headed to Mol. If you're interested give mark@localcycling.com a shout.