During the past few seasons it was no secret that Don Edberg was looking for a successor to run the Wisconsin Off-Road Series, the USA Cycling-sanctioned state championship mountain bike series he founded in 1992. And now Don can retire, knowing that the series is in good hands: Trek announced today that it will own and manage WORS, providing the series framework for what otherwise would be a collection of unrelated races owned and operated by local organizers. Trek says it will use a series format that is “similar to the one Don has developed over the years,” but it may be a little while before we know what that means. And the schedule isn’t set in stone yet. You can count on the Englewood Open dates, May 20-22, as that event is also part of the UCI calendar, but the remainder of the WORS schedule is just a guess at this point. Ten days ago someone was poking around in the old WORS website (www.wors.org now redirects to Trek) and posted a schedule that placed all of 2021’s races on the 2022 calendar on Sundays. I didn’t post that schedule here because I didn’t trust it. In recent years, more and more WORS races were moving to Saturdays. So, with the caveat that this isn’t final, here’s the approximate 2022 WORS schedule as posted by Trek earlier today:
We had never gone this deep into the offseason without a WORS schedule. Now we have one ... kind of. More importantly, we have confirmation that the series isn’t dead. And if Trek does for WORS what it has done for Wisconsin cyclocross, then we can look forward to a bright future for mountain bike racing statewide.
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