NorCal MTB Racing This Week: May 20-23, 2010

It's a big week for MTB racing all across region - both weeknight and weekend. For those of you making your plans, here is a quick rundown of this week's MTB racing schedule for NorCal:

1. Blazing Saddles Mountain Bike Race Series (Thursday)
2. Paper Plate Races (Thursday)
3. 12 & 6 Hours of Weaverville (05/22/10)
4. SB Racing.org, Winter XC Series, Round 5 Final Round, Fort Ord (05/22/10)
5. Pine Nut Cracker (05/22/10)
6. South Valley Endurance Dirty Gears Series #2 (05/23/10)
7. Gravity Day (05/23/10)

Weeknight Racing Comes To Redding: Blazing Saddles

Redding is the latest city to get their very own homegrown weeknight MTB racing series with S.O.A.R.'s Blazing Saddles MTB Race Series:

• Outdoor Fun, Food and Music
• 1st - 3rd place awards in every category & every race.
• Free dinner for riders ($5 for fans)
• Raffle giveaways
• Awards for series winners (Top 10 places to be awarded points to be totaled at the end of series )

The races will be held every Thursday evening from May 21st (May 21st, May 28th, June 4th, June 11th & June 18) at Swasey Recreation Area starting at 5:00 PM for registration. Online registration is available at Active.com. Racing starts at 6:00 PM.