TVC Club Events



Tuesday and Thursday Training Races

The Tioga Velo Club originally started out as the Tioga Time Trial Club ( I'm taking an editorial liberty here - I will check and confirm this with some of the old timers and verify - jd ) and eventually morphed into the Tioga Velo Club that it is today.  As the club grew, so to did the diversity of riding styles and skill sets within the ranks of the membership.  The riders wanted to do more than time trial.  Thus - some road courses and circuit style races were added to the schedule.  Some have stayed the course over the years and become club staples, while others have come and gone (for various reasons - safety, roads don't exist anymore, popularity with the membership, etc.... ).  The club consistently has a diverse range of challenging courses - some to suit the climbers, the sprinters, the time trialists, and for the good over all cyclist - all of the available courses.  The club has, in recent years, adopted a policy of swapping evenings for the types of races offered to adopt to various training needs of the membership.  This has been a long standing thorn in the officers side every year at the start of the season - the "real racers" (USCF types who race on weekends) frequently like to have one schedule, while the "club racers and/or tri-types" like to have another schedule... so it was decided a few years ago that the Tuesday / Thursday scheduling would flip flop every year in an effort to keep everyone as happy as could be.  One group of riders may like a particular seasons schedule better than the next,  but the other group will have thier preferred schedule the following season.  You can't please everyone all of the time... but we try!

With that little bit of history out of the way, you'll now understand why I can't say that "The Thursday evening time trial courses are this... " and "The Tuesday evening road courses are that... "  The following list of courses will therefore simply be prefaced with a TT or RR designation.  Refer to the current season calendar / schedule to figure out if a given race or races that you would like to attend is on a Tuesday or Thursday evening.


West Creek Road Race
To get there, take the second Owego exit (if your heading west on rt 17) and follow the signs to Route 38. Proceed north and the County DSS parking lot is across from Harvard Custom Manufacturing.

Staging for the race will be on Depot Rd. Just ride up 38 (heading north). You'll see West Creek Road on your left. Turn left and Depot St. is on the right once you cross the railroad tracks.  Parking for West Creek Road Race is the same as the for Rt 38 Time Trial - Park at the Tioga County Social Services lot.

Tracy Creek Time Trial / Hill Climb
Head west on Rt. 434 from "Four Corners" in Vestal (the old Grand Union).   About 2 miles down, bear left off of Rt.434 onto Owego Rd (or alternately about .5 miles later turn hard left onto Arlington Rd.).  Park at the abandoned Dollar Store in Ross Corners, at the intersection of Owego Rd, Arlington Rd, and Tracy Creek Rd.  The course runs up Tracy Creek Rd, left onto Underwood Rd, left onto Ridge Rd, and finishes about .25 miles up Ridge Rd.  Click here for course profile.

McLean Hill Rd
... is the second of our three September hill climb TTs.  Parking is the same as for Rt.38 TT and West Creek RR (park at the new jail due to construction at the Social Building).  McLean Hill Rd is the first right as you head up Rt. 38, with the course running the length of McLean Hill Rd.  While the TT is only about 2.3 miles, it features a "wall" in the middle that I have previously marked as 1km at 8.4%.... but it is more like .5 miles at 10%, with a final kick of 13% before it "flattens out."  Click here for course profile.

Underwood Rd. Hill Climb
Only 1.8 miles, "no problem" you say?  Did we tell you that the "not so easy" side of Underwood is 1.1 miles of hill averaging 10.5%, and ending with a final insult at around 19%.  And after that you still have another half mile or so to get to the finish line!  To get there, head south on Rt. 26 out of Vestal until almost the PA line (about 6 miles).  Look for sign to the Observatory and turn right (onto Castleman Rd).   In 50 yds turn left and immediately park on Underwood Rd.  That is the start line.  Like the U.S. Postal Service, we finish at the mailbox (of the Observatory).  Click here for course profile.

Greenwood Park Road Race
To get there take rt. 26 from Endicott go through town of Maine and bear left on Nanticoke Road just after Maine Memorial School.  Stay on Nanticoke for around 6-8 more miles and turn left on Greenwood Road and follow signs to park.

Route 369 Road Race
The 369 race starts at the fishing area in Port Crane, right at the exit off I-88.  So going from BGM towards Albany, get off at Port Crane (Rt. 369) and turn left at the bottom of the ramp, go about 200 yds under I-88 and the parking area is on the left.