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Some of the country's best bicycling is found on the secondary highways
and county roads of Wisconsin, so it is only natural that the state has been
the home of Wisport, a unique series of citizen's road races and time trials,
for the past 19 years.
The road races and time trials in the Wisport Series are located in various communities throughout the state and are all OPEN Events. The events are professionally timed, and feature awards in each of the Wisport age group categories shown below. The events are organized and conducted by various local civic organizations and clubs, and are used to raise funds for charitable causes. Entry fees vary in amount and may include family and pre-registration discounts. Prize drawings, refreshments and event memorabilia such as t-shirts, shorts, socks or caps are often included in the fees.
As a Wisport member, you will have the additional benefit of participating in a number of season-long points competitions, the results of which are updated each week on the Wisport website. Wisport also conducts members only drawings for many cycling related items after the races.
At the end of the racing season, Wisport holds a year-end ride and awards party. Members enjoy a meal, trophy presentations and lots of prize drawings at this popular event. You must be present to win at all Wisport drawings.
Wisport provides a venue for members to strive for personal goals, and enjoy friendly, family oriented events. The Wisport scoring system allows riders of all ages and abilities to compete in a single combined event. Wisport is self- governing, and the opinions of all its members are very important!
1. Approved helmets must be worn in all events.
2. No aero bars except in time trials.
3. Applicant's age on July 1 determines racing age category for
Wisport points.
4. You can join Wisport at any time, but you are strongly encouraged
to sign up prior to the beginning of the season calendar, or at the Wisport
Friendly Century or less/clinic in Willard.
You can greatly assist the prompt calculation of points by signing up by mail,
rather than in person, at an event. Signing up for Wisport
membership on race day may not be possible, and doing so may result in the
delay of scoring.
Application forms are available in the printed Wisport Handbook, as well as
from this website. Your mailed application should reach Wisport
prior to the first event in which you intend to participate.
5. Most Wisport events are located in Wisconsin, but Wisport is
open to anyone who wants to race, no matter where you reside.
6. Categories for Road Race and Time Trial Series.
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7. Membership Fees
Road Race Series: Individual, $25.00;
Household (2 or more), $20.00 per person; Tandem, $25.00 ($15.00 with two
individual memberships; Recumbents, same as Individual.
Time Trial Series: $25.00 or $10.00 with Road Series membership.
(NOTE: You may sign up for the Time Trial Series, without being in
the Road Race Series, but time trial points do not contribute to Team Series
points.)
Cruiser Category: $10.00 with Road Series membership.
Athena Category: $10.00 with Road Series membership.
8. Scoring system for the road race series and time trial series:
Wisport's cumulative point scoring system emphasizes participation.
Points are given to everyone finishing, based on how they finished within
their age category. The running total is maintained during the
season for each member. Year end awards are given out for each age
category, based on total points received for your 7 best race events (using a
maximum of 3 time trials) in the regular series events, and the 6 best time
trial events in the time trial series.
Overall total series points awards (male and female) are based on a total of
all (age category) Road Race Series points in all events completed.
In the case of ties in any Wisport points competition, a computer generated
average percentile score will be used to determine placing.
There are three events on the 2009 calendar that do not offer Wisport points.
These are
The Rock Falls Time Trial Clinic
The Badger State Games Road Race and Time Trial
Wisport Worlds Championships Road Race and Time Trial
9. Team Points Challenge: The top five individual age group
scores from each team are totaled for each race. These totals are
accumulated for Team Points Challenge awards at the end of the year.
10. Tandem scoring: For scoring purposes tandems are considered to
be one entry. As a result, they receive one score in the Tandem
Category. Two members who wish to register as age group (single bike)
riders, but who also wish to compete in the Tandem Series at certain events,
may do so by taking advantage of the substantial discount for adding the tandem
membership. Riders who participate in an event on a tandem, but who are not
enrolled in the Tandem Series, will receive no points.
11. Optional race distances. Members may elect to race a different length
race course when this option is offered by a race organizer. Wisport will treat
each distance as a separate event for all points and standings.
In some cases, a race organizer may offer different distance options with
restrictions based upon age, gender, or other distinctions. You must comply
with any such restriction in order to receive Wisport points, except that you
may elect to race a course which is longer than the one intended for
your age/gender group.
However, if you race in more than one age group start, you will receive
Wisport points for only one of these races unless the separate starts are listed as
separate Wisport events.
If the race length options are not restricted by age or any other way, a rider
may freely choose to race either distance.
All the distance options will appear on the website Schedule page as separate events.
The schedule page may change from time to time during the season with regard
to these optional distances, and there may be distance options that do not
appear in the printed Wisport Handbook.
12. Menzel Series scoring: For rules governing the Jim Menzel Racing Series,
see Jim Menzel Racing Series Description and Rules.
13. Awards and Benefits
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If you have a community or club in the Midwest that is interested in hosting a Wisport Road Race, Time Trial or Criterium please contact Wisport for an open date on the schedule. Wisport would consider sites in Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Being on the Wisport Calendar ensures you of a good turnout of participants, and may be the only promotion you choose to do. We can supply your group with a written guide which can help you in the basic planning of your event, and includes requirements for sanctioning by Wisport. Established races are welcome to apply too.
Many lasting friendships have been formed at Wisport bike races, and many families participate togeth er including spouses, as well as parents with their adult children. Several young riders have started with Wisport and gone on to great success in more formal levels of competitive cycling. Wisport also has a number of members who are able to compete at the highest levels of amateur cycling , but continue to participate in this unique organization whenever they can. It is not hard to find members who will say that Wisport has changed their lives for the better.
Cycling, whether road, mountain, or city, has many forms and levels of commitment, but we like to bel ieve that Wisport is quite unique and is a very special organization to be part of. The twentieth anniversary of Wisport is an occasion worthy of celebration.
Butch Dushack, Darryl Mataya, Bill Johnson, Jim Frame, Richard Alderman, Ken Thomson, Jim Menzel, Deb Vollrath, Steve Fouts, Varick Olson, and Richard Palmer
Managing Director: Ken Thomson
Co-Directors: Butch Dushack, Bill Johnson, Steve Fouts
Sponsorship Manager: Andrea Potyondy-Smith
Jim Menzel Racing Series: Matthew Hanson
Results and Standings, website: Ken Thomson
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