Hey, everybody. Welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name's Aaron. I'll be hosting today,

and we've got a very special guest with us, Kenny Griffin, who is the Georgia

Inner Scholastic Cycling League Director and also the founder of the Chain Buster race series

down here in the Southeast. I've actually known Kenny for several years back

when the days when he was running Chainbuster. So thanks for joining us, Kenny. Yeah, thanks so much

for having me down. So why don't you, before we get into the NICA stuff, why don't you tell

us a little bit about the Chain Buster series that you used to run? Yeah, so back in 2009, my wife and I started and

created chain buster productions. I've got a small background in cross-country mountain bike racing

from age of 9 to 14, and I've always had a big interest in the business side of things

over the years.

Some things worked out for us to start the company, and we had a pretty big vision at the time.

When we started, I didn't know if it was very obtainable, but after some hard work and a little bit of luck and some good people supporting us through the industry. We had some mediocre success and, you know, created endurance mountain bike races all across the southeast here.

And it really enjoyed doing it.

Did that from 2009 to 2015.

And family started building, starting having little little ones and decided to get out and transition into the Georgia League.

Awesome. That's right. And the Chainbuster series is still going on today, right? You've sold the series?

Yeah. So gentlemen by the name of Eddie Fryer, who actually is the Idaho League Director for Nica, bought the series, bought the company,

and has been doing some great things with it.

I've been getting a lot of great feedback throughout Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina,

and he's planning on taking it to the next level, so quality is still there at the forefront.

That's awesome. Yeah, I still do a couple chain busters every year, and they're either three or six-hour events at some pretty fun trails around the region.

So let's move into the NICA stuff. So for people that don't know, what is NICA and how does the Georgia Interscholastic Cycling League fit into that NICA framework?

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