This event is a Buffalo Bicycling Club race. You must be a member to participate. Membership categories eligible for this: Full, Rookie, Junior/College, Out-of-Town.  Not eligible: Group Ride/Workout or Cyclocross. To join, click here.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

This race is also the Buffalo Bicycling Club’s championship! The annual champion’s jersey will be awarded to the first club member in the following fields: A Men, A Men Master’s 50+, A Women, B Men, B Men Master’s 50+, B Women. The first member to finish in those championship races will be crowned the club champion for the year.  They will win the club champion jersey to be worn at Buffalo Bicycling Club road events for the next 12 months!

Podiums will be done at the parking site after the race.

Parking:

Park at the Marilla Town Park Eastwood entrance, 2433 Eastwood Rd. East Aurora, NY 14052.  (Note your GPS may take you to the main entrance on Three Rod Rd- don’t listen to it!).  We will roll out together at 10am from the park to the start line on the corner of Kern and Urf Roads.

Course:

Click Here to View the Course Page.  An 11-mile rolling loop on low-traffic roads, great for an all-rounder rider!

What You Should Expect on Race Day:

1. Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to get into your riding clothes and get your bike ready
2. Write down your name on the sign-in sheet when it becomes available, head out on the bike get a few pedal strokes in the legs to warm up
3. At 10am, we will be doing a one-lap group ride for all A, B, and C riders so everyone can see the course together
4. We’ll start the A, B, and C groups in waves to race the amount of race laps noted in the Course Description
5. At the end, make sure you know your finishing place and report it to the event organizer

Sunday Series Club Races Individual Scoring:

This race is part of the club’s two halves of the season with 4 races each. There will be an ‘A’ and ‘B’ field scored at each race, with additional separate scoring below. Points are awarded in each race by finishing place:

1st = 15 points

2nd = 14 points

3rd = 13 points

4th = 12 points

5th = 11 points

6th = 10 points

7th = 9 points

8th = 8 points

9th = 7 points

10th = 6 points

11th = 5 points

12th = 4 points

13th = 3 points

14th = 2 points

15th and after = 1 point

First and Second Half of the Season

The Sunday Series Club Racing season will be split into two halves for scoreboards reflecting a first half and second half of the season.  This allows for more focused leaderboard competition and a reset mid-season to start over to compete on a new leaderboard!

First half of the season will be:

• 4/26/2026- Grand Island Fireball Full Loop
• 5/17/2026- Corfu
• 5/28/2026- Grand Island Individual Time Trial (also the club time trial championship!)
• 5/31/2026- Marilla Expansion (also the club road race championship!)
• 6/21/2026- Strava Segment Group Ride

Second half of the season will be:

• 7/2/2026- Grand Island Two-Man Time Trial
• 7/19/2026- Strava Segment Group Ride
• 8/23/2026- Corfu
• 9/13/2026- Grand Island Fireball Full Loop

You get to drop 1 race from each half-season to determine your overall score (best 4 of 5 in the first half, best 3 of 4 in the second half)

Master’s Sunday Series Racing

We are including a version of separate scoring for Masters Men’s 50+ racers!  Master’s 50+ will race in the A field and will be scored against the A’s, but Master’s points will be pulled out into a separate Master’s leaderboard.  How does this work?  If Master’s 50+ riders get 4th, 7th, and 8th in the A race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards their Master’s standings.  They’ll be on the Men’s A leaderboard and the separate Master’s leaderboard.

Women’s Sunday Series Racing

Women racing in the Men’s A field will have the same version of separate scoring as the Men’s Master’s 50+ above.  If women riders get 4th/7th/8th in the Men’s A race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards a Women’s A leaderboard, as well as the Men’s A leaderboard.

Women racing in the Men’s B field will have the same version of separate scoring as well.  If women get 4th/7th/8th in the Men’s B race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards a Women’s B leaderboard, as well as the Men’s B leaderboard.

Marshalling a Race

We always need volunteers to score our races!  If you volunteer to be a scorer/timer for a Sunday Series club race yourself, you’ll get 10 points towards your Sunday Series standings at that race!  You can do this up to 2 times per season.  Please note that one marshal or mentoring duty is required this year for your club points to count!  Sign up to marshal here.