Park City Point-to-Point Race

The 2011 Park City Point-To-Point elevation cycle vie took locate in Park City, Utah over Labor Day Weekend. The PCP2P is a 78-mile endurance vie almost all of which takes locate on the long and glorious Park City singletrack. The vie starts at most 7000 feet of elevation in Park City’s Round Valley trail network. From there it heads up into the mountains and through Deer Valley and Park City Mountain Resort runner resorts and then follows the Mid Mountain Trail at 8000 feet (a designated IMBA Epic) to modify at The Canyons runner resort. This is a actual elevation cycle vie – not added blast agency roadrace masquerading as a elevation cycle race. There are dripless switchbacks, assail corners, roots and rocks â€" theoretical bike-handling skills are required.

Because it’s so unique, the Park City Point-to-Point vie draws a strong earth of racers. This assemblage the favoring men’s earth included 2010 succeeder Alex Grant; Olympian, 24 Hour Solo World Champion and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee, Tinker Juarez; and terminal year’s ordinal locate finisher, binary Breckenridge 100 succeeder and Montezuma’s Revenge winner, Josh Tostado. Alex Grant took the intend again, with an amazing 6:45 time. Tinker and Josh Tostado ended the vie ordinal and ordinal with individual nowadays of 7:01 and 7:02:26.

The 2011 Park City Point-to-Point Women’s earth included Rebecca Rusch, who has binary wins at the Leadville 100 and Creampuff 100 as substantially as binary 24 hour unaccompanied wins; Kenda / Felt favoring Amanda Carey; and Ergon favoring Sonya Looney, who has binary wins this assemblage including prototypal locate women’s unaccompanied at the 6-day Breck Epic initiate race. Amanda Carey was the prototypal blackamoor to finish, with a instance of 8:17:33. Second place, at 8:31:35, was topical Park City auto Erica Tingey, who titled the PCP2P, ” the best vie of my career!” Sonya Looney ended ordinal with a instance of 8:36:28 and Rebecca Rusch came in a instance after to verify fourth.

I’m pleased I prefabricated it discover to shoot the Park City Point-to-Point this year. Race organizer diplomatist Burke, tried to intend me discover terminal assemblage but I didn’t attain it. Now that I’ve witnessed it I’m already hunting forward to incoming year’s race. Like I said, the PCP2P is a actual elevation cycle vie that demands theoretical bike-handling skills and rewards racers who spend more instance on the soil than the road. Because of the bonny park City setting and the enthusiastic trails it’s also makes for enthusiastic elevation cycle photos. I hope you savor the gallery, below. And for a enthusiastic first-person vie report, feature GrizzlyAdam’s 2011 Point 2 Point journal post.

For more aggregation and vie results, please meet the 2011 Park City Point-to-Point Web site.

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