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Bill Plock's avatar

As a journalist with 303 I totally resonated with this, thanks for writing! I don’t cover events anymore, just occasional adventures. I was the Tour of the Gila, that was very interesting and had little atmosphere considering its America’s only or one of a couple UCI stage races.

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Bill Plock's avatar

It was kind of bleak scene to cover honestly

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Ryan Simonovich's avatar

Yeah, the coverage of domestic road seems pretty bleak these days.

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Panda's avatar

👏👏 Great perspective!

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Matt Miller's avatar

Hard to beat the rush you get from covering an event like that. Enjoy it, I'm sure you'll know if/when it's not sustainable anymore for you.

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Chris Mehlman's avatar

You did some awesome work!! Also, $21.7 million in economic impact? That’s super interesting, and wonder if locals value that more over the negative impact they might feel…

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Ryan Simonovich's avatar

Yup, that's the number from Life Time. I'm very interested in that and might write about it. Was chatting with Amanda Nauman and she said the early organizers did a lot to build community relations that lead to less pushback of the present day circus

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