How to Use road racing in a Sentence
road racing
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The road race takes place during peak fall, my favorite time of year.
—Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2020
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The Olympic silver medalist was also fourth in the road race and sixth in the criterium.
—David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2019
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This year’s road race will be held at 10 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28.
—courant.com, 21 Aug. 2019
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Give the rip-roaring, off-road racing Asphalt Xtreme a chance.
—Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
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Ragnar organizes road races, like the Del Sol, as well as trail races.
—Molly Duerig, azcentral, 26 Nov. 2019
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Truex was chasing a sweep of the two traditional road races on the schedule.
—John Kekis, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2019
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Registration for the weekend's road race is still open and will be until the morning of the race.
—Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 9 June 2018
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The largest day of road racing in Kentucky will also have a new title sponsor in 2022.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2021
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One of the reasons to run road races is for the crowd interaction: The miles are a lot less lonely with your fan club there to support you.
—Popular Science, 29 Mar. 2020
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This, of course, is one of the great assets of road racing as a sport: all-time legends and anonymous amateurs take part in the same event.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2021
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Wout Van Aert, who is staying home in Belgium to prepare for the road racing season.
—Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2022
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Outside its walls, in the largest parking lot in North America, there was road racing, RV shows and swap meets.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
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This summer’s ultra-distance races will be the true test to see if the Flight shakes up the trail scene the way carbon super shoes did for road racing.
—Adam Chase, Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2021
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Many cyclists inspired by the event wanted to create their own off-road racing event as well.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2022
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Justin Williams is the first Black cyclist to win a national title in road racing, and that was only two years ago.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2020
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This will mark the 42nd year of the Free Press marathon, the state's largest road race through the streets of Detroit and Windsor, and the only race to cross international borders twice.
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2019
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This Denver couple do all of their training for road races indoors.
—Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 22 May 2018
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The Colorado Classic is the only women’s standalone pro road race in the Western Hemisphere.
—Helen H. Richardson, The Know, 23 Aug. 2019
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Martin was one of three people killed when two bombs detonated near the finish line of the iconic road race.
—Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 15 June 2019
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Until Friday, no cyclist had won both the road race and the individual time trial at the same Asian Games.
—John Pye, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
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Dave Russell, a Granby resident, became involved in the road race at a request from his friend Schupp.
—Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 1 May 2018
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The iconic French road race is typically held each year, with millions of fans lining the streets to cheer on competitors.
—Ben Morse and Amanda Davies, CNN, 12 May 2020
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Roba, who finished among the top five in all five of her Boston appearances, hasn’t run a marathon since 2004 but still does charity road races.
—John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2018
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The 15-week program helps prepare runners and walkers for the Derby Festival’s road races.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 21 Dec. 2017
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The Dakar off-road racing program survives for now, but F1 will be the main focus of Audi's racing energy at this point.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2022
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The Cloudflow sneaker was our pick for best lightweight running shoe and the Cloudstratus shoe was our pick for best running shoe for road racing.
—Ellen McAlpine, Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
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Dixon said following of the most thrilling road races in recenty memory.
—Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 28 July 2019
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The men’s bicycle road race took place in my hometown of Mission Viejo and it was announced in advance that the course would be prepared the day before — bales of hay on the downhill turns, etc.
—Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
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For more information or to sign up for a nonprofit booth, craft booth, road race, volleyball, or the ALS challenge please go to www.fifersday.org.
—Jennifer Fenn Lefferts, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
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But there does not appear to be an existing authorization specific to road racing or running, and the catalog does not include the BAA.
—Sahar Fatima, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
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