July 23 - El Rito Epic
Cost: Free
Start location: Click HERE for a Google map of the start/finish area.
Start time: 9:30AM
Entry Limit: 74 So sign up now!
Rules: Sign in before the race and sign out when you finish. When you sign in we'll give you the run down of using the Time Machine to get your finish time to log on the sign out sheet. Roads will be open to traffic and trails will have other users on them. Any vehicle on the course is not expecting to encounter a bike race on these roads so please stay to the right hand side of the road. Don't ride like an idiot. Be nice to other people. Ride within your abilities. You are responsible for your own safety, navigating the course, and addressing any mechanicals that may arise. Last and most important have fun.
Details: This area is perhaps the most remote of any of our races. Please read over our rules on the homepage. This race is the most important to sign in and sign out! It looks like the cartographers at Strava/google/apple decided to take a long lunch break and splashed out on some nice bottles of wine on the day they made the maps for this area. So, it looks like the roads are set to be just close enough. I'd recommend setting your device to not beep at you if you happen to be off course, just so you can listen to the sounds of nature instead of your device. Maybe zoom your course map out a little and you will be assured you're headed the right way. I will print out turn cue sheets, loads so everyone that wants one has one, for all the turns and mileage so you can work just on odometer if your device freaks out. Packing tape too so that can go on the stem or top tube (pro).
Everyone needs to download Avenza Maps: Offline Mapping from whatever app situation they use. Its free, this is not a plug, we have found this extremely useful for navigating and camping in national forests. In the app, go to the store icon and search El Rito, NM (seems to default to El Rito, El Rito, NM United States). One of the first maps in the list is the Motor Vehicle Use Map, West Side, Carson National Forest. It's free, download it. All the routes are within this map and this could be very useful if your bike computer is having issues. This app will place your location on the map and will work without cell phone signal and in airplane mode. This app has been indispensable for us to create these courses and find camp spots off the beaten path, every national forest has Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUMs) for free and they are very informative. It's worth the few minutes to download.
Adjective: epic
heroic or grand in scale or character.
Informal
particularly impressive or remarkable.
Popular culture has not been kind to the word epic. Through a combination of exaggeration, overuse, and incoherence, epic has been diluted to nonsense. We, of the Dusty Roadrunner Series, intend to set epic on the path of redemption.
Where the high desert of Abiquiui reaches the lower pines of the Carson National Forest lies El Rito. An old Spanish settlement, this town is dominated by the San Juan Nepomuceno Catholic Church, built in 1830. A small artist community and a killer Mexican restaurant can be found in town. At the edge of town a road climbs north into the forest, at the crest we will begin our journey.
This route is a tour of the remote northern New Mexico continental divide. Towering pines, paintbrush firs, grand views, adventure and discovery await. Someday we will have a relatively flat race, this will not be that race. The elevation gain will be immense. The roads range from well-maintained dirt and gravel to "roads" where a motor vehicle probably has not ventured this year, but they are all scenic and nice riding. In fact, we have included part of the route from the tour divide. Make certain to bring extra layers for this one, the continental divide here makes its own weather, and we have been snowed on here in June. We will have a short, medium, and long route option.
We're racing Saturday and planning to camp and party Saturday night. There are a lot of dispersed camping spots close to the start/finish area so feel free hang out with us after the race. It takes me 2 hrs 20 min to drive from my house near Oldtown Abq to the starting area/camping area. We plan to make the start at 9:30AM, so you could drive up from Abq the same day and not have to leave at a disgusting time of day.
My fellow lycra enthusiasts, we present to you, The El Rito Epic.
Start location: Click HERE for a Google map of the start/finish area.
Start time: 9:30AM
Entry Limit: 74 So sign up now!
Rules: Sign in before the race and sign out when you finish. When you sign in we'll give you the run down of using the Time Machine to get your finish time to log on the sign out sheet. Roads will be open to traffic and trails will have other users on them. Any vehicle on the course is not expecting to encounter a bike race on these roads so please stay to the right hand side of the road. Don't ride like an idiot. Be nice to other people. Ride within your abilities. You are responsible for your own safety, navigating the course, and addressing any mechanicals that may arise. Last and most important have fun.
Details: This area is perhaps the most remote of any of our races. Please read over our rules on the homepage. This race is the most important to sign in and sign out! It looks like the cartographers at Strava/google/apple decided to take a long lunch break and splashed out on some nice bottles of wine on the day they made the maps for this area. So, it looks like the roads are set to be just close enough. I'd recommend setting your device to not beep at you if you happen to be off course, just so you can listen to the sounds of nature instead of your device. Maybe zoom your course map out a little and you will be assured you're headed the right way. I will print out turn cue sheets, loads so everyone that wants one has one, for all the turns and mileage so you can work just on odometer if your device freaks out. Packing tape too so that can go on the stem or top tube (pro).
Everyone needs to download Avenza Maps: Offline Mapping from whatever app situation they use. Its free, this is not a plug, we have found this extremely useful for navigating and camping in national forests. In the app, go to the store icon and search El Rito, NM (seems to default to El Rito, El Rito, NM United States). One of the first maps in the list is the Motor Vehicle Use Map, West Side, Carson National Forest. It's free, download it. All the routes are within this map and this could be very useful if your bike computer is having issues. This app will place your location on the map and will work without cell phone signal and in airplane mode. This app has been indispensable for us to create these courses and find camp spots off the beaten path, every national forest has Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUMs) for free and they are very informative. It's worth the few minutes to download.
Adjective: epic
heroic or grand in scale or character.
Informal
particularly impressive or remarkable.
Popular culture has not been kind to the word epic. Through a combination of exaggeration, overuse, and incoherence, epic has been diluted to nonsense. We, of the Dusty Roadrunner Series, intend to set epic on the path of redemption.
Where the high desert of Abiquiui reaches the lower pines of the Carson National Forest lies El Rito. An old Spanish settlement, this town is dominated by the San Juan Nepomuceno Catholic Church, built in 1830. A small artist community and a killer Mexican restaurant can be found in town. At the edge of town a road climbs north into the forest, at the crest we will begin our journey.
This route is a tour of the remote northern New Mexico continental divide. Towering pines, paintbrush firs, grand views, adventure and discovery await. Someday we will have a relatively flat race, this will not be that race. The elevation gain will be immense. The roads range from well-maintained dirt and gravel to "roads" where a motor vehicle probably has not ventured this year, but they are all scenic and nice riding. In fact, we have included part of the route from the tour divide. Make certain to bring extra layers for this one, the continental divide here makes its own weather, and we have been snowed on here in June. We will have a short, medium, and long route option.
We're racing Saturday and planning to camp and party Saturday night. There are a lot of dispersed camping spots close to the start/finish area so feel free hang out with us after the race. It takes me 2 hrs 20 min to drive from my house near Oldtown Abq to the starting area/camping area. We plan to make the start at 9:30AM, so you could drive up from Abq the same day and not have to leave at a disgusting time of day.
My fellow lycra enthusiasts, we present to you, The El Rito Epic.
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