Over 100 of the coun­try's top cy­clists will be on show when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion opens its 2011 sea­son with a 66km Road Race from the Mu­cu­rapo Fore­shore to Cou­va and back on Sun­day be­gin­ning at 7 am. The event will be the first of a five-part week­ly road rac­ing se­ries mix­ing short road races, in­di­vid­ual time trails and a cir­cuit race every Sun­day un­til Feb­ru­ary 27. The types of races were se­lect­ed to en­hance cy­clist prepa­ra­tions for up­com­ing track events and to be used as an im­por­tant rough guide for the TTCF Rac­ing Com­mit­tee in ob­serv­ing the fit­ness lev­els of the coun­try's road cy­clist vy­ing for se­lec­tion in both the road race and ITT at Pan Am Cham­pi­onships in May 2011.

For these rea­sons, the TTCF has asked all cy­clists to place their bikes on the start­ing line for these events. Points will be award­ed for the top six cy­clists over­all and top four in each oth­er cat­e­go­ry. In an at­tempt to make the race more com­pet­i­tive, a bonus of three points will be award­ed if the win­ner fin­ish­es the race in one hour, 45 min­utes or un­der. Due to safe­ty con­cerns from the po­lice, cy­clists who are dropped be­fore the fly­over at Grand Bazaar with no chance of con­nect­ing to the pelo­ton will be elim­i­nat­ed from the race. This will ap­ply to cy­clists in all cat­e­gories.

The TTCF will not al­low the chil­dren's cat­e­go­ry (BMX) to par­tic­i­pate in this event for their own and oth­ers cy­clist's safe­ty. Reg­is­tra­tion for Sun­day's race will be open from 6.20am to 6.50am. The en­try fee will be $20 per cy­clist in all cat­e­gories.