SIX IN THE STICKS course

I have the six-hour course mapped out and will go out to ride it in its entirety tomorrow.  Will report the length after that.  It will be a fun course.  You'll be able to rip through most of it, but we're still talking about Turkey Mountain so technical sections are inevitable.  Six hour is a long time to ride at Turkey, so hopefully the course will flow for you.  There won't be any paved sections except for a very short pass up the river trail to connect a couple trails.  It looks like the ride through the "parking lot" won't even be paved, and I'll figure out a solution to route us around ongoing construction.  I hope they have enough of the construction finished so we can have adequate parking.  Riverparks assured me the entire project would be finished by July 26, but I'm planning for the worst.  So don't worry about it- we'll make it work.  

Hopefully you're all still riding a lot, training through this heat.  Get out and get acclimated.

I'll blog again on Friday with as much of a course description as I can give.  Maps of Turkey mountain are somewhat useless, but I'll do my best to give you an idea where the race is.

Next week I'll get out and do some preliminary course marking with red and black checkered ribbon.