July 25, 2005

Tour de Williamson County

If you are a Nashvillian who likes to watch bicycle racing and are despairing now that the Tour de France is over, Lance Armstrong is retired, and the best thing coming up on OLN is five-year-old reruns of Survivor, perhaps you should make plans to watch some local bike races live. Like, perhaps, the Allanti Cycling Classic, including a road race and a time trial in and around scenic Leiper's Fork, and the Bike Pedlar Criterium on a closed course in Franklin. Cash prizes offered total $5,360.

I plan on attending and photographing the races.

Memo to the media: This is the kind of local sporting event that gets zero coverage from big papers and the teevee news stations, but would make for good feature stories with great photographs or video.