Results are now final

  

Thanks to you all for your patience this year with all the delays in posting the awards and schedule for 2011 and 2012 respectively.

Our special thanks to all the race directors, especially, those that compromised on their event  dates to produce a schedule with more abundant and conflict free racing opportunities in the long years of the Southwest Challenge Series. There is still one race in the late Fall on Fort Bliss in El Paso to nail downils. Just monitor our website for final details.

And now congratulations to all the 2011 age group winners. The awards have been ordered and will soon be in hand.

There are now planned presentations following the Wind Triathlon on March 3 at White Sands, and following the MVT (Mesilla) on April 1. If necessary, we will make a trip to the Spring Fling in the Albuquerque area on April 22.

If you miss these I will post on our website races that I will be attending in which you might notify me in advance to bring along your award. Warning, my races will be very few this year as family priorities are occupying most of my attention these days.

Finally if you are a Champion of your age group, I can send you your vest postage collect, if you choose to miss the presentation races. The 2nd & 3rd place Champagne trophies, of course, cannot be sent through the post office or delivery services.

Finally, you will find attached the “Ancient History” awards that have not been picked up over the years. Please contact me personally on the disposition of these and we’ll make arrangements. Anything prior to 2007, regardless of place of finish can be posted as they are metal & wood trophies.

Again, congratulation to you all and hearty thanks for making our little corner of the world one of the premier centers on the planet for racing opportunities in this sport we all love.

See you at the races! Mark Balsiger
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A quick reminder at this early point in the 2012 season - this series is run by an entirely volunteer army and costs nothing (zero) to the race participants.  Since starting the series over 20 years ago the series has become a victim of its own success growing at a phenomenal rate.  The series was started and still run by guys who just love the sport.  But, with growth comes often comes the dark side.  We have had many offers to purchase the series and be run by the pros, but so far we continue with our original simple love of the sport operations. So please bear with us if postings are infrequent.

Happy Racing - Sean