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CASH PRIZES! WEEKENDS IN CRESTED BUTTE! SUNGLASSES! AND MORE! Eagle Resort Development has generosly donated PRIZE MONEY. The Pro-Purse will be $2,500 minimum. USAT or Xterra licenced pros only. Crested Butte Mountain and Crested Butte Lodging have donated weekends in Crested Butte. These include your lodging and lift tickets! Zeal Optics has donated sunglasses. Race fast-look cool. The prize list is substantial. The raffle list is impressive. Come on out and win something!
COURSE PRE-RIDE!! On Saturday July 22 Xterra Ambassador Roger Villmow will host a course ride. Please meet at the Brush Creek Trail Head at 10am for this epic adventure. If this weren't enough, Roger will have schwag to give you just for showing up. Directions are as follows: From Gunnison follow Hwy 135 North/West towards Crested Butte. At about XTERRA RACE CLINIC AND NUTIRTION CLINIC: Please join us for two exciting clinics at 4pm on Saturday at the bank during packet pick up. Xterra pros will present on everything you wanted to know about training and racing. In addition, Rhonda Mayo a Carmichael Training Systems Senior Coach will speak to you about your nutrition or lack there of. VENUE / COURSE: The course is set in and around Skyland and The Crested Butte Country Club, near the Town of Crested Butte. Follow Hwy 135 North/West towards Crested Butte. At about the 25.5 mile marker look for the flags and signs on your right (2 miles South/East of Crested Butte). Turn right on Brush Creek Road (CR 738) in to Skyland and The Crested Butte Country Club. Follow Brush Creek to just past a sharp right hand curve and then turn left on to Skyland Drive. Follow Skyland Drive up to Grant Lake. SWIM: Grant Lake at Skyland. Water temperature is expected to be in the mid to high 60's. WETSUITS ARE REQUIRED. BIKE: A mix of single track, pavement, and dirt roads. You will leave Grant Lake and follow Country Club Drive to Divine Trail. Following Divine, you will climb to the Upper Loop, then to the Upper Upper Loop and eventually drop down to Brush Creek Road. You will take Brush Creek Road to Strand Hill, follow Strand Hill to the Canal Trail and back to Brush Creek. Brush Creek will then return you to Skyland Drive and back up to the lake. RUN: Out of T2, you will start your climb on the same course as the bike. Once on Upper Loop you will turn on to Whetstone Vista and follow this down to Brush Creek Road. You will follow Brush Creek back to Skyland Drive and up to the Lake, circle the Lake and finish at the transition area. THE COURSE IS ON PRIVATE LAND: The private land owners in Skyland have allowed this event to take place. Please respect their requests by adhering to the following: PLEASE, No Dogs at the race venue, Park only in designated areas as shown by the parking marshals, no pre-swimming before event morning. If you would like to pre-ride the course please respect the private land and parking regulations. Do not ride or drive up to the private lake before race day - doing so puts our venue at risk. Water is water - it's flat. Do access the course via Divine Trail and the public access at the end of Country Club Drive (follow the signs to the Upper Loop). Do use the portas on site - Do not pee in their yards. I like to pee in the woods as much as the next guy, but I told these guys you would all be well behaved :-) Following these requests will allow us to return to the venue again. Thanks in advance for being good sports about it.
REGISTRATION: Registration is available on line at active.com If you would prefer a mail in form, email us at triathlon@crestedbuttebank.com with your address. We will be accepting team entries for 2006. You may register your team via mail in or Active. Early registration pricing is $164 per team and $79 for individuals. FREE AGENTS: This is the "No Excuses" portion of our event. If you would like to participate on a team, but you don't have two crazy friends to do it with, email us. Let us know the leg you would like to compete in and we will find you teammates. No refunds or registration transfers.
PACKET PICK UP: Packet pick up will be held on Saturday July 29 at The Crested Butte Bank from 2pm to 6pm. The Bank is located at 116 6th Street in the Town of Crested Butte. 6th Street is the Hwy (135) that you come into Town on. As you enter town follow 6th to the 3rd stop sign, the Bank will be on your right.
AWARDS / RAFFLE: There are some awesome prizes and raffle items being donated, the list will be posted near the event. Mens' and Womens' Pro-Field will equally split a prize purse that will be $2,500 minimum and go 5 deep. Age Groups for men and women are: 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60+, and Challenged athlete Top three finishers in each age group will receive a custom event medal.
RACE-WEEKEND SCHEDULE: This is the 2006 race schedule: Saturday 2:00-6:00pm Packet pick up at The Crested Butte Bank. 4:00 until you run out of questions Xterra Clinic and Nutrition Clinic at the Crested Butte Bank Sunday 7:00 Transition opens / body marking opens 8:30 Transition closes 8:30 Pre-Race meeting 9:00 Race Start! 11:00 ish Leaders expected 12:00 Run start cut off 1:00 Awards ceremony This schedule is subject to adjustments. Please check back to ensure you have the latest information.
THE DOUBLE ! That's right, Crested Butte's own "Double". Just like the famed combination of the IronMan World Championships and the Xterra World Championships on the following weekend, The Crested Butte Double will test you! The event consists of The Grin and Bear It up-hill down-hill trail run on July 22nd , followed by the Crested Butte Bank Trails Triathlon on Sunday July 30, 2006. Fastests combined time wins. So, you may ask, what do I win? Well, I don't know yet. However, I will promise you a nice prize, and all the glory you can handle. Local media will swarm you, and you will become a hero to many (and a curiosity to even more). To enter the double, just enter both events and email me (Ashley) at triathlon@crestedbuttebank.com and I will put your name in with the select few of your crazed endurace peers for competition in The CB Double.
THE CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST: All proceeds from this event will be donated to a local charity. A portion of them will go to the Crested Butte Land Trust. Follow the link to learn more about how the CBLT is preserving the qualities that make our valley the special place that it is.
LOCAL SPONSORS: Local sponsors include: Eagle Resort Development, Crested Butte Rotary, Crested Butte Mountain, The Alpineer, Crested Butte Lodging, The Tune-Up, and The Crested Butte Bank. Their generous contributions have made this event possible.
MAKE A WEEKEND OF IT!!! Crested Butte is loaded with things to do! Bring the family and make a weekend of it. Crested Butte Lodging - race packages for lodging in Crested Butte, mention the race when you call. Crested Butte Chamber of Commerce - tons of area info Gunnison Chamber of Commerce - tons of area info The Crested Butte Reel Fest - A film festival in Crested Butte later in the summer. The Burt Mt. Bike Cabin in Gunnison - a fun place to come and stay and ride your bike.
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