Epic Sports Epic

Bring your sense of adventure to the Epic Sports Epic mountain bike race, part of the RM Stoudt Off-Road Festival. The Epic will be held Sunday June 26th at 10am. There is no pre-riding, but I did decide to make a trail map on Google Earth. If you'll notice, this is one gigantic loop, not a series of little loops on the same course over and over and over and over.
This race/ride will be as competitive as you want to make it. There are prizes for the top 3 overall finishers. Top prize is a Garmin 500, second is a pair of Oakley's, and third is a Stan's NoTubes kit for 26" wheels. If you're keeping track, that's over $500 in schwag!!
There's something here for the easy riders as well: the poker run. There will be seven checkpoints along the route where riders can grab a playing card from a deck. Best poker hand made from 5 of 7 cards wins a prize. YOU HAVE TO COLLECT ALL SEVEN CARDS TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE POKER HAND PRIZE. I'm not telling what that prize is. You have to be here to find out.
The length of the course is just over 25 miles according to Google, a little shorter than the usual route because the North Ridge Trail is unridable due to water. Speaking of water, there will be three aid stations with water and GU available for riders to help themselves. I have ridden this course almost ten times over the past few years and it's taken me anywhere from 2.5 to 3.5 hours depending on how hard I want to go. I've never raced it, so I'm assuming there will be finishing times close to 2 hours if not faster.
If you like riding your mountain bike, nice t-shirts, cool people, having fun, free water bottles, winning, losing or just getting outside for a great ride then you need to sign up for The Epic!!!! If you got here from my website, hit your "back" button and follow the registration link. If you got here from the blog scroll, go to www.pipestemxterra.com and then follow the registration link.