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I have lived in Enumclaw my whole life. How many Enumclaw Stage Races have I been too? ZERO. Until this past weekend I have never been to the Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race. I definitely have been missing out. What a really cool event.
The stage race is broken down into 3 events. Time Trial, Crit and Road Race. This is a 2 day event running from Saturday to Sunday. On Saturday the morning starts off with the Time Trial and then in the afternoon and evening is the Crit race. If you are thinking about watching any type of bike race the Crit is the bike race worth seeing. On Sunday the final event of the stage race is the grueling road race. Unfortunately for this year Saturday the weather was perfect and on Sunday well it was not so good!
If there is anything I walked away from this event is how the city of Enumclaw and residents need to embrace this event. I am hear to say that I don’t know anything about bike racing and it is not something that I DVR or record to watch later on tv. The Crit race is highly entertaining and fun to watch and you don’t even need to be a bike racing fan.
What is interesting is how I even got involved with the Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race. It started with a simple tweet. I have had a love hate relationship with twitter. (Message me on twitter @tysongamblin) Well I have really picked up my activity in twitter since April. I have made some great connections and one of them is Mutual of Enumclaw (Message Mutual of Enumclaw on twitter @enumclawinsgrp). They were tweeting about the Bike Race coming up. I mention that Gamblin Motors would be interested getting involved maybe have a pace car (twitter handle: @gamblinmotors) *If you want to see more pictures check out Gamblin Motors twitter feed during the bike race some fun stuff.
Next thing later a phone call and a corvette rolling off the showroom floor and off the Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race.
The Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race Pace Car
All through twitter I made the connection to get involved with an amazing event. Everyone kept on asking me what does moesr and the hashtag mean. People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords or phrases (no spaces) in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets and help them show more easily in Twitter Search. So the Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race (MOESR) social media team decided to track all the buzz about the event through twitter.
This was my first Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race and it for sure will not be my last and I look forward to attending more races in the future. I know in a few years my little girl is going to take that first place ribbon in the 4 year old and younger bike race (She will be the fastest to the stop sign and back).
Tyson Alan Gamblin Blog 
Thanks for the great write up on the race!
After interacting with you some on twitter, it was great to meet you and put a face to the name.
I have also been a plateau resident (Sorry… Buckely, not Enumclaw) my entire life and this was my first stage race. What is even worse, is I have worked at MoE for 12 1/2 years! (This was the 17th annual race… so you can do the math on that.)
I was suprised myself by how exciting it was. I loath all the cyclists on the side of the road (sorry!). And the thought of riding one of those bikes just makes me hurt all over. But the race was fun and exciting.
I left on Sunday with lots of ideas for next year on how we can do things better and ready to help out even more!
What’s more…is I share your love/hate relationship with twitter… but it seems to be all about connecting. And I am starting to see some of my connections pay off. So I will keep trudging through my twitter feed, as I am sure you will.
Bri