Arctic MTB #6 - 16th August 2016 - The series final

Tuesday the 16th August 2016  marked the final round of the Arctic MTB Kincaid Race Series for 2016.  The six race series always passes so quickly but this year, once again the series has been a blast to compete in with a great variety of courses and weather.  

From the team point of view we've had great participation in the events both racing and assisting with course setup and teardown.

Thanks again to Arctic MTB for putting together a great series, see you all at the Trifecta then following on from that #Crossiscoming with Arctic cross

Team photo from earlier in the season

How did we do in round 6?

Expert Men

Clint - 11th Place

Shannon - 12th Place

Expert Women

Laura - 3rd Place

Sport Men

Oscar- DNF - missed turn on course

Ethan - ????

Sport Women 

Danielle - 1st Place

Masters Men 

Bruce - 5th Place

Singlespeed Men 

Nico - 1st Place
Ryan- 3rd Place
Tom - 7th Place

Fatbike Men

Andrew - 4th Place

Race results

Series roundup

Expert Men

Clint - 11th Place

Nick - 18th Place

Brad- 24th Place

Shannon - 25th Place

Expert Women

Laura - 3rd Place

Sport Men

Travis - 32nd Place

Oscar - 39th Place

Ethan - 44th Place

Brant - 69th Place

Sport Women 

Danielle - 1st Place

Beginner Women 

Kristie - 13th Place

Masters Men 

Bruce - 4th Place

Singlespeed Men 

Nico - 2nd Place
Tom - 5th Place
Ryan - 7th Place

Fatbike Men

Andrew - 2nd Place

Full results 

Alaska Endurance Association Soggy Bottom - 6th August 2016

After the epic rain preceding the Soggy Bottom all the racers were preparing for potentially horrendous conditions on the course. Fortunately the course was mostly just moist with the occasional section of wet. Even a lot of the wet cleared up for many riders return trip back towards Devils pass.

Revolution racing had two riders completing solo for the 100mile event, 2 riders on teams (both took leg 2) and two riders running the SBBS (Soggy Bottom Bacon Station)

Results

7th Place - Samuri Cereal Killers - 9:53:56 (Oscar's Team)
12th Place - Clint - 10:44:26
17th Place - Nick - 11:28:36
23th Place - EMT - 12:14:00 (Ethan's team... I think)

SBBS - Laura and Ryan
Here are a couple of snap shots from out on the course.

Bacon Hand off from Ryan - Photo credit Will Ross

Oscar at SBBS - Photo Credit Ryan Greeff

Clint descending Devils Pass - Photo credit Will Ross

Nick taking a shot at the SBBS thanks Laura
 - Photo credit Ryan Greeff

Nick descending Devils Pass - Photo credit Will Ross

Ethan at SBBS - Photo credit Ryan Greeff

Arctic MTB #5 -4th August 2016 - The water edition

Wow what a wet one!  Congratulations to the 6 team members who were out racing. The course was a little climbing, a little descending with a large side of  mud, water and wet roots.

How did we do?

Expert Women

Laura - 2nd Place

Sport Women 

Danielle - 2nd Place

Masters Men 

Bruce - 3rd Place

Singlespeed Men 

Nico - 2nd Place
Tom - 4th Place

Fatbike Men

Andrew - 4th Place


Full results

How wet was it?  Take a look at these photos and judge for yourself.

Bruce on Black Bear

Nico on the ridge trail

Danielle on the ridge trail

Andrew on the ridge trail

Laura on the ridge trail

Tom on the ridge trail

Arctic MTB XC#4 - 21st July 2016 - The gorge trail edition

Nine team members were out racing in the only slightly smokey air this week.
The course was a tough one with around 800ft of climbing per 6mile lap.  Although most of the climbing wasn't steep it did wear out the legs.  2/3 of the way around the course we took a primitive single track trail that linked up with the gorge trail.  This added a little technical riding into the course and was a great place to either maintain some good pace or lose time against your rivals, if you hadn't already lost time in the climbs ;-)
Thanks again to Arctic MTB for another fantastic course.

How did we all do?

Expert men

Nick - 10th

Clint - 12th

Brad - 15th

Expert women

Danielle - 4th

Sport men

Travis - 11th

Master men

Bruce - 5th

Single speed men

Nico - 1st

Tom - 6th

Fatbike men

Andrew - 1st

XC#4 Race results full
Season points including XC#4

How to upload a course

Have you ever wondered how to upload a course into you Garmin cycling computer? Or perhaps you've seen a track on Strava that you would like to try out. Watch this video on how to export a course. Thanks to the Arctic Bike Club Mountain Racing Division for providing us with the download. See you all Thursday. :)

Arctic MTB website

Revolution Racing Alaska Club

Arctic MTB Strava Club

Arctic MTB #3 - Hillside - 30th June 2016

The weather had been sunny all day, great I thought another sunny race. At around 17:00 the clouds started building and the humidity went up, well at least for Anchorage it felt humid, there was also a light shower of rain when I left my house for the race. Fortunately the rain mostly held off for the racing which started at 19:00.

The course was a mix of STA buffed out singletrack, older singletrack (Llama), social singletrack  and ski trail. The course had around 500ft of climbing per lap, however roughly 400ft of that was completed in the first 2 miles, which definitely served as a warm up.
It could also be described like this, climb to the top of the Hillside STA trails will this climb ever end! Descend half way back down a fun (technical) trail, climb again on a loose and rooty trail to the top of the ski area, descend to start area on a mix of singletrack and ski trails then suffer as you climb (again) through double bubble ski loop.

Revolution racing had a great turnout with 12 members racing and one as support.

There are also some really good photos on facebook.
Photos by George Stransky on facebook

Team highlights

Expert Men
Nick - 13th
Brad - 18th
Clint - 19th
Shannon - 21st

Expert Women
Laura - 3rd

Sport Men
Travis - 17th
Ethan - 19th

Sport Women
Danielle - 1st

Master Men
Bruce - 2nd

Singlespeed Men 
Ryan - 4th? may move up further once results are revised.
Nico - self DQ due to wrong turn.

Fatbike Men
Andrew - 1st

Support
Kristie

Full Results

Kenai 250 race report

The weekend of 24th, 25th and 26th June Oscar decided it would be a great idea to ride the Kenai 250, this is a race through most of the singletrack on the Kenai Peninsula, from the Kenai 250 website 
"The Kenai 250 is a challenging route, for experienced backcountry endurance riders, with over 200 miles of singletrack that traverses some of the most beautiful landscape the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska has to offer.  The ride includes the historic Resurrection Pass , Russian Lakes Trail, Lost Lake Trail, Johnson Pass and so much more!

This will be a 100% self-supported event.  Riders will be required to carry all gear required  to complete the loop.  The route goes past several small populated areas where re-supply is possible.  No outside help, company, ghost riders, pre-arrangements, reservations, calls to restaurants to pre-order food or wait for rider, etc.  Cellphones allowed for safety and selfies only."

Results can be found here but really you should read about Oscar's experience here on his blog.

Oscar on the trail - Photo credit Jill Simek

Thanks for the write up Oscar, It was a really great read.

FYI there may be a few curse words in the writeup, you have been warned :D