Alpine Epic 2010

Melissa_Theuriau · *by **Melissa_Theuriau** on Wed 6/Jan/10 9:09am*

New Zealand's mountain bike stage race. 5 stages over four days traversing 250km of high country from Mt Somers to Lake Tekapo.

http://www.alpineepic.co.nz

way_downsouth · *by **way_downsouth** on Wed 6/Jan/10 9:22am*

I cannot say enough good things about this race, I was there last year and wish I could be this year.

Nick_K · *by **Nick_K** on Wed 6/Jan/10 9:51am*

Kicking myself that Ive probably left it too late to get organised for this.

Monolith · *by **Monolith** on Wed 6/Jan/10 6:57pm*

Kicking the organisers for making it clash with Nats again...

ontherivet · *by **ontherivet** on Wed 6/Jan/10 10:05pm*

Yeah is a shame about the nationals clash...but for various reasons we are restricted by dates on which we can access some of the land back there.

In other news, just been scoping out the last couple of stages. New country, fast riding and pretty cool.

Total distance has increased to around 295km for the 5 stages...

Cheers
Nick

RossCoe · *by **RossCoe** on Sun 31/Jan/10 10:19am*

I am still keen to to alpine epic if I can find a (Male) team mate - reply via private message

barking.cat · *by **barking.cat** on Fri 5/Feb/10 2:20pm*

2.5 weeks out from the alpine epic and my partner has done an endo and ripped his shoulder. I therefore need to find someone who wants to share 4 days of sweat, and I suspect a rather unpleasant tent, for this amazing event.
I am a 42 year old male and normaly do pretty well in XC races in my age group.
If you are interested you can send me a private message - doing this event with a stranger can only add another challenging aspect!

Conners · *by **Conners** on Wed 24/Feb/10 9:39am*

I bet the anticipation is building again in Mt Somers this morning.

Wish I was down there again this year, had such an amazing time last year. Good luck to all those who are racing, looking forward to hearing all the tales again :thumbsup: