Date: June 25th, 2011
Event: 25th Anniversary Cow Creek Country Classic 2011
Route Distances: 10, 19, 36, 46, 75 and 100 miles
About the Ride: The Cow Creek Country Classic Bike Ride is the Waxahachie Rotary Club’s major annual fund raising event. Each year’s ride is produced and presented by Rotary volunteers, students, Boy Scouts, and other civic volunteers from throughout Waxahachie and the surrounding communities. There are no paid employees.
Each year’s “Rider’s Dollars” are deeply appreciated and extremely important to Waxahachie Rotary and the community as a whole. We work quite hard to see that those dollars are well invested in improving the quality of life in the Waxahachie community. Over the past 24 years, your ride dollars have enabled the Waxahachie Rotary Club to:
- Waxahachie Senior Center
- Hope Clinic
- Rotary Projects
- Waxahachie Interact Club(s)
- Community Service
Our ride is not a race, and will consist of 10, 19, 36, 55, 78 and 101 mile tours on a well marked course.
- The 10 mile is a leisurely in-town tour of historic Waxahachie, with unique “Gingerbread Homes” and “National Historical Register Landmarks”, such as the octagon-shaped Chautauqua Auditorium in Getzendaner Park and the Ellis County Courthouse. All ages can participate with confidence of a safe ride. This year’s in-town ride will also utilize part of the new Hike ’n Bike Trail that Waxahachie has opened. The ride will also go through the downtown area, and if you want you may stop and eat or shop in the many antiques and arts & crafts shops around the square. This is an ideal ride for beginners, children and families seeking a fun morning together.
- The 19, 36, and 55 mile tours go through some very beautiful, scenic parts of Ellis County.
- The 78 and 101 mile tours are excellent rides through the beautiful countryside of Southwest and Southern Ellis County and parts of Johnson, Hill and Navarro Counties. There are some rolling hills, but most of the roadways are fairly flat.
All courses other than the Waxahachie City 10 mile are on paved rural state and farm roads, most of which have no shoulder. FOR YOUR SAFETY YOU ARE STRONGLY URGED TO RIDE SINGLE FILE IF AT ALL POSSIBLE TO ALLOW AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC TO PASS. The finish takes you through Historic Downtown Waxahachie and into the back of the High School which will have less traffic.
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Event Website: http://www.cowcreekcountryclassic.org
Registration details: Online Registration
- Early registration by Friday, June 10, 2011: $30.00 each.
- Family Discount Fee, 4 or more (parent(s) and children under age 17) residing at the same address and paid with one check — each rider $20.00.
- Corporate Discount, 8 or more riders from same organization (will be recognized at ride) — each rider $20.00. Entries must be sent together.
- After June 10, no family or corporate discounts — each entrant $35.00.
- Late registration will be accepted until 8:00 AM, June 25. Make checks payable to: Waxahachie Rotary Club.
Contact info: 972-935-6415