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Tulsa Tough Launching Fall Race "Like Warrior Dash on Bicycles"

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Tulsa Tough grows bigger, with organizers adding a fall race, the Cyntergy Hurtland.

Picture Tulsa Tough’s short, fast criterium courses made to fit on an off-road location.

"And put barricades and obstacles where the cyclists have to dismount and run with their bicycle over a barricade and maybe cross a ditch or go through a sand pit before they even complete each loop — that's cyclocross," said Director Malcolm McCollam.

Cyntergy Hurtland’s course is designed by top-ranked American rider Jeremy Powers. The race is Nov. 21 at Owen Park.

The race will benefit the Tulsa Children’s Museum.

Tulsa Tough is teaming up with Red Bull for a one-time indoor race, too.

"They call it the world's smallest velodrome," McCollam said. "The entire track — wooden track with banked curves that are 5 feet tall — will fit inside the Cain's Ballroom."

The indoor race will be Nov. 20.

Matt Trotter joined KWGS as a reporter in 2013. Before coming to Public Radio Tulsa, he was the investigative producer at KJRH. His freelance work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and on MSNBC and CNN.