I’m on the east coast of the US and not sure if it’s just my region, or it’s USAC in general. Cycling races, as it appears to me, aren’t approved until the last minute. It’s already December and most cycling race organizer websites still have March 2021 events listed. Their 2022 calendars aren’t pos…

They’re generally going to be held at about the same time each year. For example, the race you did in mid-July last year will probably be in mid-July this year. Bigger national level events are often announced further ahead of time. It is definitely a pain though. It isn’t unusual for events to off…

What you describe is how things work unfortunately. Welcome to bike racing in the US. There are a couple things in play that lead to this less than ideal situation. Most bike races are locally promoted, usually by cycling clubs and things tend to get done at the last minute. (Very few bike races …

Good tip. My local cycling club isn’t very race oriented so its me and two other interested riders trying to get a good calendar going. The worse alternative I guess is prick your finger and ride in circles to get strava invites from the velominati

There is definitely a huge range of quality when it comes to local USAC regions. Some have full calendars planned out, and others have websites that haven’t been updated in 3 years. It is frustrating, especially since it makes things so much harder for newbies to get into the sport. Unless you know …

One really tough thing local bike racing faces is that while it takes at least a small group of day of volunteers to pull an event off, often many races are literally the brainchild and baby of one person. When that one person stops (or dies suddenly in the case of one local race in my area) the ev…

Basically agree with posts above - not sure where other regions maintain there lists, but here is the one maintained by our local USAC official 2022 PA-WV Race Listing – PACycling.org 2022 PA-WV Race Listing

Gravel races seem to have figured it out (here in MI anyway) - I don’t think these are USAC sanctioned though… [image]

As said above, PA/NJ/MD races typically show up on the same weekends each year (barring pandemic years). To get a hint of what races could be coming up and when go to usacycling.org and look up race results for PA (or any other state where you’d race). I’d recommend skipping 2020, 2021 will have a f…

In NJ, the local association typically holds a scheduling meeting with clubs and promoters early each year. The calendar is kept online. 2022 is not populated yet. You can look at prior years. 2020 we planned a “normal” year but of course that didn’t happen. 2021 there was a smattering of races but…

Where on the east coast are you?

Its almost like cycling races are a secret

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mwglow15 December 10, 2021, 1:29pm 18

Yup, meanwhile the MBRA website hasn’t updated to any 2022 events. But because those are USAC sanctioned I think there are more hoops to jump through.

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Its almost like cycling races are a secret

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