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But we want to be clear, there will not be the crush and crowd of people there has been in the past.Please note - I am starting to get updates for 2012 information - If you have updates let me know - Tore We are going to get more curveballs between now and Memorial Day weekend.
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We have a quite large special event, and the questions of how to scale back have been hard. “It’s a hard time for anybody to plan anything. We need to get this one done to, hopefully, celebrate 50 years of Iron Horse next year and really feel like we’re back in the game. The community needs to get lots of things going again, and we’re just one of those. The community needs us to get going again, and not just us. “We needed to have an event, and we are committed to doing it safely,” Sippy said. All of those considerations were a big driving force in the IHBC pushing ahead with plans to race in 2021. The return of the IHBC is also expected to be a boost for the economies of Durango and Silverton, as small businesses have been hit hard during the pandemic.
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Because of public health guidelines, this year’s pro mountain bikers will not get to ride through Steamworks Brewing Co. May 30 racing will see the mountain bike races and gravel ride. Highway 550 from Durango to Silverton still will be closed by Colorado State Patrol from Purgatory Resort to Silverton on the day of the road races. There also will not be a veterans train this year going from Durango to Silverton, and cyclists will have to arrange for their own return transportation, as the IHBC will not provide buses or an option to ride the train back from Silverton to Durango. There will be no party in Silverton at the finish line. Sippy said the start line for the road events will be moved out of downtown Durango and onto 33rd Street and spread across eight to nine blocks to allow for social distancing. We are going to come up with types of money-back guarantees based on how close to the event we are if we have to cancel for any reason. “It’s making a hard-to-plan event harder. It will be cycling-only events with no festivals, no ancillary events and much more scaled back in terms of number of participants in the road events. It will be an event much more similar in size to what we did back then than what we have done in the last 10 to 15 years. The biggest concern will be how we get people started and how we manage them at the finish line so there is not a big congregation. “I don’t know how many participants we are going to ultimately end up with,” Sippy said.
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If any spots remain open, the IHBC aims to open registration for those spots in mid-April. Those who registered in 2020 will receive the first opportunity to sign up this year. Sippy said more information about 2021 registration is expected to be announced by March 15. He also noted the IHBC will once again become a USA Cycling sanctioned event, which will help the IHBC with its health protocols, insurance and give the organization access to a USA Cycling doctor.Īfter last year’s races were canceled, the IHBC offered a 30% refund to registered riders along with a 20% discount for 2021 registration. Sippy said a virtual event is also being planned for those unable to get into the road events. The Quarter Horse ride from Durango to Purgatory Resort also will be held. The 50-mile road race along with the Citizen’s Tour ride from Durango to Silverton will be held as normal, though the total number of participants in those events will be greatly reduced from the normal 2,500. This year’s races will be held May 29-30. We have spent a lot of time learning and reaching out to other events, talking to USA Cycling, the Bicycle Association of Colorado, San Juan Basin Public Health and Silverton to make sure we can fit this into the world we are living in right now so we don’t have to skip another year.” We are going to scale it appropriately to meet COVID guidelines and protocols. “Planning work continues every day, but we’ve come to the conclusion that we are going to, or at least going to try to, make sure we have an event Memorial Day weekend. It’s important to make a go, no matter how small, to get us back on track. We’ve seen it with other businesses in our town. Having to do it again this year would be devastating,” Sippy said. Canceling altogether last year, it was the first time that happened in 48 years. After a nervous winter of planning for variations of a 2021 program, IHBC race director Gaige Sippy announced plans Monday for the 49th edition of the famed cycling event held Memorial Day weekend. Like so many events in 2020, the IHBC was forced to cancel in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The size of the event is still to be determined. The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic is ready to return to Durango and Silverton this spring.
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