SIX course update

Rode Turkey on Thursday on what I thought would be the race course.  The trails are more rutted than usual with a lot of exposed rocks and roots.  So I've changed my mind about the course.  I do want this race to be fun, so I'm going to try and route through as many fun sections as possible.  I've also decided to shorten the length of each lap a bit too, because if it is really hot (and it probably will be) you'll be able to get back more often to refill your bottles.

So here's the tentative course description.  I still may change it up a bit, but I'll try and get out there to ride and mark it tomorrow.

Start in the parking lot (what's left of it) and ride south down the sandy trail toward 71st.  Hang tight through Bombshell (or Bomb Shelter or whatever you call it).  Take a left on the cutoff that leads to the drop into the flat roadbed.  Then right into the creek bed and through the loose, rocky rollers out to the paved river trail- left and up around the right curve.  At the next curve, go onto the dirt trail on your right that leads up the ridable climb.  Find your way out to the main trial that leads up from the parking lot, right to another right hand turn up the trail Womack and Mikey built with the bridge at the top.  Continue climbing up next to Elwood, right at the top and left onto the windey trails through the woods.  Keep going straight past where that trail used to end and follow the new trail down to Millennium Trail.  Take a right and ride out to the Spider and across to the west side.  Down the fun hill, whip it around and down those fun rock drops and back through by the dead tree and off the lip by the Pepsi plant.  Left through the trashy creek bed, up the hill hang right.  Through another creek bed and onto the main Y trails to a doubletrack.  Follow it a ways and get off on a new singletrack that leads out to a pond in a clearing.  Sorry, I wish I knew the names of these trails, if they have names.  Hopefully if you've ridden at Turkey extensively, you'll be able to visualize the route.  At this point, instead of following the windey trail along 61st, you'll break off to the left and left again to the south side of the Snake Trail and race that around to the main exit, up the main trail to the upper parking lot and down Lip Buster back to the parking lot.

What do you think?  I think it will be fun, and I'm planning to ride during the race, so I want it to be fun.