Im in wave 1 for the 62 mile race at Barry. One year I got like 40th and I can remember attacking through people on hybrid bikes. I didnt want for it to go that way, but I was in a group of 10 and people kept attacking so I kept following.
What y’all got for MO, NE, KS 2024?
Some on my list are Garmin Winter Endurance, Open Range, Unbound, Garmin Gravel Worlds.
Rough Road 100 registration opened up today … I don’t think this is an event that sells out quickly like BRX, Iceman and Dust bowl(?) … but just thought I give the heads up.
It’s on April 6th this year.
Hmmmm……doesn’t conflict with Spring Break this year. 
Also Karst Crusher is May 11 next year in Nashville, IN….
…time to open up a 2024 events thread?
I was going to make one soon!
It will arrive on January 1st🤘
Registrations open for winter endurance and gravel worlds
Looking forward to the 2024 edition of this thread. If you recall, I ruffled some feathers with my casual assumption that Nebraska was part of the Midwest.
I would humbly submit, to the powers that be – the map below for consideration.
We’re awaiting an official ruling for 2024. I’ve made my case.
Application denied……ND, SD, NE and KS are part the The Plains, not the Midwest.
Well in the day I would say any state that has a Big 10 school qualifies, but that’s clearly not going to work anymore…
LOL…we just had a discussion about that at dinner tonight. Youngest daughter has decided that she wants to go to Iowa next year and the oldest went to Indiana. We then talked about the west coast schools coming in and the fact that Maryland and Rutgers are in the B1G, as well.
This is controversial.
I want to be inclusive, but @Power13 has been a loyal lieutenant on this thread, and I must consider his vociferous objections with due care. I will think on this for the next 6 days before submitting judgment.
I don’t make the maps, I am but a humble servant of the Midwest. I will consult the “flyover state” cabinet.
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Pure Gatekeeping. 
The U.S. Census Bureau’s definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River.[3] The 2020 United States census put the population of the Midwest at 68,995,685.[4] The Midwest is divided by the U.S. Census Bureau into two divisions. The East North Central Division includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, all of which are also part of the Great Lakes region. The West North Central Division includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota, several of which are located, at least partly, within the Great Plains region.
But if your event is really cool we will let you in
You are just DARING me to rename this the “Great Lakes Events Thread” … but that would exclude Iowa, and I can’t do that to Midwest thread ambassador @Cory.Rood
I would have a less a problem doing that to Missouri, but that is a topic for a different day.
I am still considering my final decision but this highbrow census bureau chatter casts those candidates for inclusion in an adverse light.
The Midwest is like pornography, it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it
Has anyone ever cared about the opinion of the census bureau? Let alone, something as critical as the definition of the Midwest.
Kansas and Nebraska were the original Middle West. In the 1850s, Americans tried to grapple with those new territories and settled on Middle West because the territory sat between the Southwest of Oklahoma and Texas, and the Northwest of the Dakota Territory. That is, Americans understood the Midwest as a place west of the Mississippi but between North and South.
In the decades following the Civil War, as the United States expanded its territory farther west at the expense of American Indians, the Kansas-Nebraska definition of Midwest couldn’t hold. It became the great heartland between East and West, or, more pejoratively, the flyover states.
Definitions change, like what is a woman 
, so let’s get with the times!