08-14-09
Another Trail Teaser – Presented by Ergon
07-20-09
The Numbers Are In…
So we’ve chopped the course down to the promised 75 miles! We will have a Google Earth Map Posted up tomorrow night. Here are the details as they stand now (please note, these may change just a tad here and there as we re-ride the course with a much more sensitive GPS unit).
Total Miles As of now are right on 75 Miles, 90% of which is true 1-Track, and there is 14,080′ of climbing.
Leg 1 of the Duo class will ride 34.3 miles and climb 6,695′. Leg 2 of the Duo class will ride 40.66 miles and climb 7,385′. Leg 1, for a couple of reasons, miles being the obvious, will be the easier section. For the most part, this leg is on pretty easy riding trail until you get to the Bald Mountain loop of Deer Valley. Leg 2 is more technically demanding over the duration of the miles.
One more time, this is not concrete and these numbers will definitely fluctuate a little as we polish the course. The time is now, sign up and “do what your afraid to.”
07-15-09
All “possible” trail has been GPS mapped!
First of all, thanks to everyone for being patient – we wish you would register, but understand a lot of you want to see the course first.
Here is the lowdown. We’ve mapped the entirety of available trail without any trail crossings or use of the same trail twice. We have approximately 90 miles of total trail, don’t get alarmed yet…. and are going to be narrowing that down to between 75 – 80 miles as we’ve discussed all along. The vert seems to be about what we’ve thought, which is going to fall around 12,000′. Take a look at our google map page (link from the bottom of the course page on our site) and you’ll be able to see the course as it stands now. Our mapping guru is going to be banging on the files the next few days, so keep on eye on it.
Couple of things worth mentioning. We will be eliminating the Devo Downhill and Tour de Homes portion of the course from the Snow Park are a Deer Valley (this is good)! Additionally, we will not climb the maintenance road of Deer Valley to get to the top of Bald Mountain. I’m not going to say the climb is easier, because it is not, it is just must more pleasant to climb single track than a service road.
I will have a ton on the trail quality of the race in my next BLOG post, but I will say this, to have a race (point to point non-the-less) in which well over 90% of the course is on single track and you never lap/loop or use the same trail twice is pretty damn amazing. This is going to be a killer event!
07-10-09
Take a “racecation” in Park City, UT This Labor Day!
Staycation: staying in your own backyard (basically not taking vacation). Mancation: taking a trip with a bunch of dudes. Try this on for size, Racecation! If it hasn’t been coined yet it should have been. I mean think about it, BC Bike Race, they feed you and move a tent around for you all week – all you have to do is show up and suffer.
So get ready to make a mini racecation out of the PCP2P this Labor Day weekend. Friday night will be the pre-race meeting, so get here a little early and check into your room at The Canyons Resort. Maybe get a little pre-ride in before the racer meeting. Next morning, up early and off to do the race. After the race, hang out and listen to the FREE concert in the forum at the canyons. Sunday and Monday…more riding and hanging out in beautiful Park City. If you think about it, you only are going to ride 75 miles of the nearly 400 miles of trail in the area during the race – so there’s way more to explore.
Book you room for the weekend at the Canyons, they are offering a great rate for racers and you’ll only need to stumble a few hundred feet to land in your bed after the race. $129 for a room – book it here.
06-29-09
New Trail Teaser
Trail Teaser #2 – Presented by Hammer Nutrition
The trail picked up on in lower Deer Valley. Climbing up towards Snow-Top and then into Deer Crest. From there we headed up into the four-points area, down Devo Downhill and then up the dung-climb (tour de homes). From here we skipped down to Mid-Mountain cut off.
06-21-09
The Course…
We continue to plug away at mapping the course, we had hoped to have it complete by this weekend but the moist weather (which has been a good thing outside of prohibiting riding) has slowed us considerably. Rest assured, the course is coming together, once this rain stops today we will be out there riding (I mean mapping).
Registration is open, and we have 300 slots to fill!
http://thepcpp.athlete360.com/
06-19-09
Registration is Live!
Another step in the direction of this race “really” happening. It is funny how you dream about something for so long, and then finally, a concrete step in the right direction. It’s Registration time!
If you would like to go to our registration partner page on your own, visit www.athlete360.com – search “Park City Point 2 Point.”
On a sad note, the American Mountain Classic threw in the towel today on their late August stage race event to be held at Brianhead Resort. On a positive note, you can now train to peak the 5th of September at The Park City Point 2 Point, also right here in Utah! And…we are now truly one of Utah’s only mountain bike endurance races.
More trail research tomorrow! Details to come.
06-12-09
Video 2
06-10-09
Trail Recon Ride #2
So we hit it early last Sunday to go out and ride some more potential course. I nearly pulled the plug and 10:30pm the night prior as weather officials (ha!) were calling for rain through the night and into the early morning. I was wide awake at 5:00am, for some reason – rock ready. The sky looking south was clear and beautiful, to the north – dark and angry. We drove into town and parked at the City Building, rode over into the lower Deer Valley area and headed up…figured out how to easily navigate through the Deer Crest area (SnowTop) and headed up Four Points. Found a great decent option in Devo and then headed back up via Tour de Homes (sure would be great to eliminate this climb, doesn’t really fit the PCPP mold we’ve created). Once we hit Silver Lake, the big black cloud checked in with us – drizzle we called it. So, we kept riding, over on Mid Mountain and dropping into the trail cut two years ago called Mid Mountain cut off. Killer decent, especially with the drizzle. Climbing out of Cut Off towards John’s 99 it started raining, hard! We packed it up when the rain turned to…sleet. Watch for the mapping to hit shortly (another 17.5 miles), it will be posted under the Course section.
06-09-09
Registration for the Very First Park City Point 2 Point Opening Soon
Registration for the PCPP will open on June 19th, 2009. Pricing will be outlined in detail at this point. The field size for the PCPP is liminted to the first 300 riders, so get yourself entered early. Put an alarm in your calendar, do push ups, go ride…
