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08-15-10
It’s Going to be a Party…
Yes…after you finish the race it’s going to be a party! So tell all your friends that Byron Friedman is playing a FREE show at the finish party of the Park City Point 2 Point. Bryon will go on-stage around 5:30PM in the forum at The Canyons.
2010 Park City Point 2 Point Promo Poster
I love this video > > >
08-02-10
30ish Days Out From the PCP2P…Some Important Stuff!
The race date is quickly approaching, things are coming together nicely for this year event. Here are a few things I wanted to make you aware of.
• Friday: Packet Pick-up 1PM – 5:30PM and Pre-Race Meeting 6:00PM
These are happening in the forum at The Canyons. See you there.
• Lodging: If I were racing this event, I would want to stay in Park City on Friday night. Start time is just a hair prior to 7AM (sun rise)! Check out these great deals with our lodging partners.
http://thepcpp.com/the-surroundings/stay-here/
• This year we will NOT be doing the AM shuttle from The Canyon’s to the Start Line. We had a lack of interest and this year we’ve secured parking near the start venue (you will need to get there on your own after the race to pickup your car). More details will come on the lot location soon.
• Special Deals for racers
- myPOV360.com: they are huge supporters of the event this year, the POV vids you’ll see posted from us come out of those cameras. The Drift X170 (HD model too) are being offered to racers at a great price. If you’ve wanted one, you should take advantage of this. The Drift is super easy to use and very compact. Visit this link to order yours…https://www.mypov360.com/park-city-point-2-point/
- Garmin…you want a 605 at a great price? MSRP $399.99 less 30% $279.99. You can get yours by calling White Pine Touring and placing a pre-order request. Call Eric or Julian at 435-649-8710 www.whitepinetouring.com
Stay tuned for more details, they will be presented on the Racer Handbook page and on the FAQ page.
07-08-10
FREE entry!
Got your attention didn’t I!
So, we are dropping 5 spots into the Park City Point 2 Point. They will become live at 7PM on July 26th > > this is the race registration Page PCP2P Athlete 360 The spots are Solo entries…better set a timer to go off, they are guaranteed to go fast.
That is not all though. Visit our Facebook page and tell us in a general wall post why you are deserving of a FREE solo entry. Maybe you were convinced you’d get in to Leadville, but nooooo. Maybe you just started riding bikes and you want your first race to be a big one. Video entries are cool and photos included in the post will get big bonus points. The winner will be announced Monday July 26th sometime during the day.
Facebook Page: Park City Point 2 (to) Point
What are you waiting for…get on it.
07-01-10
Where Should I Stay in Park City for the PCP2P?
I love a good tent night...but not before I race 10 hours!
Funny you should ask…we have a few options for those of you coming in from out of town, and even those of you from nearby that may want to simply stay for a night.
All the deals can be found here…..The PCP2P Official Lodging Partner Page
Lets start with the locals…Here’s the deal, I’m not sure you’re going to want to be here for the racer meeting at 6PM (done around 7:30PM) on Friday night, get home late, and then be back up here by 6:00AM for the 7AM start! Why not just stay up here??? For $65 you can stay at The Park City Peaks Hotel, get to bed early and you are only 3 miles from the start area.
For those of you from out-of-town (state), you may want to stay in a unit with a few more amenities – a condo lets say. We’ve got The Canyons offering a Bed and Breakfast Race-Cation deal and we have Park City Crash Pads offering a free night when you stay 2. Both offers are a great way to experience Park City and the Point 2 Point over the Labor Day weekend.
02-16-10
Waiting List…
A lot of you have asked about a waiting list and I wanted to give some clarification. We are not going to do a waiting list, based off of what we’ve heard from the majority of feedback we are going to go with a first-come/first-served release of whatever (if any) we find in duplicates and that type of thing after the audit. If and when we do release positions, we will post on Facebook, Twitter and the news section of the web site, so stay close to those. Thank you, Thank you for the massive interest – we will keep you posted.
02-15-10
HOLY #%*#@! Did That Really Happen?
It did!
Well first of all we want to thank everyone for the avalanche of entries into the 2010 Park City Point 2 Point – very cool. I can’t believe we sold 50 entries in the solo category in the first 5 minutes registration was open this morning. 5ish hours into it and we had completely sold out the solo entries and as I write this post – some 13 hours after registration we have 1 Duo opening remaining.
So here is the deal, we are going to spend the next 12 hours or so doing an audit of the entries, we’ve seen a couple double entries and there are a few other problems. We have no idea how it will shake out, but if there are a couple of additional entries – and I mean a couple, we will post them up for a first-come, first-served offering. We will announce when we will drop them (give a specific time), and then they will be up for grabs.
We know there are still a ton of you out there that want to race, and trust me, I wish I could say – come one, come all, but we can’t. This race is great and will continue to be great because of the small field and intimacy of the event. All I can say is…mark your calendars for this same time next year and better luck then!
Thanks again to everyone!
02-14-10
Registration Tomorrow… 9:00AM
I wanted to get one more post up before registration opens up again tomorrow, covering off a few things and commenting on some of the feedback we’ve had over the last couple of days (thanks to all that have given feedback – we do appreciate and listen).
So, first things first. If given the choice again…to open registration to early to last years racers – I think we would handle it the same way. We did this as a way to show our appreciation for supporting an event in its first year. As we all know, first year events can really suck…or they can be really great. I think we had a wonderful first year, and it wouldn’t have been that way without the support of the racers and their friends and families (volunteering). So again…we thank you all very much.
A few poachers did fall into the mix during the early registration (no offense poachers, I can’t find a better word). I’m going to give them all lenience, as most told me they didn’t realize it was a “closed” offering, and frankly, most of the folks that registered in the 24 hours we had it open were returning racers. Chalk it up to laziness, but we are not going to go in and peal out the poachers, refund everyone and have them re-register. We certainly appreciate everyone’s acceptance and understanding in regard to this little hick-up.
As for tomorrow…we scraped up another 10 entries that will get added into the mix. So we should have nearly 145 solo entries up for grabs and 18 duo slots. So the skeptic in me says there is now way 145 solo racers will enter tomorrow – but then I never would have imagined over 100 would have entered so quickly on Wednesday. I’m blown away at the interest in the Park City Point 2 Point, when asked a couple of months ago if I though it would sell out this year my answer was always, ” it could…but I would be blown away if it did.” So I guess time will only tell over the next few weeks.
As for next year, we appreciate all the input. We feel, at this point anyway,we will make available all the slots as a first-come, first-served offering and they will more than likely be released in the evening (lets say 7PM as a placeholder). We will explore the idea a giving the top-3 in each category an invite to race – but nothing concrete on this today.
As for the number of racers we’ve been allocated, 300 is the number we were given by the Park City governing bodies (Basin Rec, Park City Muni, etc). Last year we had about 160 people on course, this year it is looking like we will be at our max – 300, us getting more people on course will be dependent on a number of things. We will be looking at managing the quality of the event as our key metric for whether we increase the size of the field (or better stated – if we would approach Park City and ask for more slots). If the size increase this year doesn’t allow us to provide the same quality event – we may choose to stay at 300. Park City will be looking at the impact on the trails and most importantly how we all mitigate run-ins with the joe-public trail users. So keep this in mind as you are racing this year.
Lastly, I’m sure you are all pretty good with 3rd grade level math and can see that we do not have all the 300 slots pushed out for racers. Yes…we have to hold a handful aside for sponsor entries and VIP’s, (we wouldn’t have a race without them), additionally – we’ve made the decision to hold some entries for pro level racers, we feel this is important to the success of the event in the future and making this a marquee event that has National recognition.
So In closing, thanks again for the tremendous amount of interest in the race – we couldn’t be happier. The Plan again for tomorrow is pretty simple….
9:00AM | FEBRUARY 15TH, 2010 | DIRECT REGISTRATION > CLICK HERE FOR ATHLETE360
Good Luck to all!
02-10-10
Registration Update…2010 PCP2P
So, we need to clarify what is going on with registration. We opened registration today for the racers who raced last year, as a thank you for having faith in us during our first year! This has backfired on us a little, as we’ve had a number of people register today that did not race last year. There’s still a lot of spaces left for the event, but as a result of the poaching, we will shut the athlete360 site down at noon tomorrow (Feb. 11th). Registration will re-open at 9:00AM on Monday, February 15th. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the enthusiasm everyone is showing for the event, but we also want to be certain new racers all get the same chance at the spaces available. I shutter to think about creating another LT100 debacle.
Another thought to file away for 2011, and I would love to see some comments here on this – do you think the best way to handle registration is to simply open it up on a given day and let it go first-come-first-served? I personally do not like the lottery system. Thoughts?
Happy Winter Riding.
02-01-10
FREE Entry and Two Nights Free Lodging to the 2010 PCP2P
FREE entry & 2 nights FREE Condo lodging from our friends at Park City Crash Pads!
What do you have to do? Post a wall story about the craziest road trip you’ve ever experienced traveling to a race – like waking up to the sound of gunfire to find you plopped a sleeping bag down in the center of the local shooting range (which is actually the old town dump). You have very limited space, so get to the point, get creative and you could be racing and Lodging for FREE! Images always make for a better story, so post ‘em up, and….the more comments your story receives the better you chances of winning are.
We pick our winner the day registration opens on 2/15/10. Good Luck!
01-06-10
The Second Running of the PCP2P…
Happy New Year!
Mark your calendars racers, we will be back at it right here in Park City, UT – Saturday, September 4th, 2010. The details will be unfolding over the next 9 months, so follow this weblog, follow our Twitter feed, or become a fan on our Facebook page – do something! Hell, why don’t you start training.
Registration will launch on February 15th, 2010. We will be feeding more information out on this very soon, so again, find a way to stay in touch and do it.
We already have a couple of noteworthy national competitors giving us initial word they will be out for this years event. The current 24 hour National Champion, Josh Tostado and Relative newcomer Eszter Horanyi winner of the Laramie Enduro, Vapor Trail 125, and 24-Hour National Championships in Moab. I’ve not heard any word yet on the returning champs, Alex Grant and Pua Sawicki, but I’m pretty certain it will be hard to keep them from defending their titles.