Highland Mountain and Cannondale announce OverMountain Enduro Race

Sep 30, 2011

by Ian Hylands

Northfield, NH - Highland Mountain Bike Park is thrilled to announce the addition of a new event- the Highland Over Mountain Enduro Race presented by Cannondale to be held on Saturday, October 22, 2011. This event will showcase Highland’s newest trail additions as well as bringing some of the best over all riders in the industry to compete for cash and prizes.

Super D racing is one of the fastest growing disciplines and most popular racing events around the world. For Cannondale, mountain biking is all about the perfect ride and this event will provide an exciting race at one of the best venues in the U.S - Bob Burbank, General Manager Cannondale.

The event will begin with a timed downhill seeding run. Then racers will be placed in groups for a wave start based on their seeding times. The real race starts close to the summit with a short sprint climb before heading down the News ODB trail to lower Threshold through the base area and out our 3 mile rolling single track loop. Toward the end of the loop racers will hop on Easy Rider and charge to the summit for a finish down Happy Hour.

We're looking to showcase the best all mountain riders, if you've got both the legs for XC and DH skills this is the event for you. - Dave Smutok, Highland's VP of Business Development and Pro Rider

Categories will include Pro and Amateur with over a $10,000 cash purse up for grabs for the pros, and prizes from Cannondale, GT Bicycles, SRAM, Fox Shox, WTB, Highland Mountain, and more for the Amateurs!

Pro Purse Breakdown:

Men:
1st $2500
2nd $2000
3rd $1250
4th $750
5th $500

Women:
1st $1250
2nd $1000
3rd $750

Online Entry fees are $70 for Pro and $60 for Amateur and include lift access for Saturday. Race day pricing is $75 for Pro and $65 for Amateur. If you wish to practice on Friday the course will be open. Registered racers can ride Friday for $28. Racers can also ride Sunday for the same discounted rate of $28.

For more information or to register visit www.highlandmountain.com

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mikeyk (Sep 30, 2011 at 15:22)

Highland rocks.

Protour (Sep 30, 2011 at 22:08)

Yeah, looks like a killer event. With that huge of a purse there should be some top notch competition. It's a unique race format, sort of similar to mega-avalanche with the DH qualifying, but the finals seem way more XC'ish if they are going all the way back up to the summit after the first downhill part. I guess that's what an "overmountain" race is.

I'd put my money on someone like Adam Craig, but who knows with a trail named ODB. Maybe Weir will have the course dialed and win the first overmountain race on his Cannondale overmountain bike, ha.

jumpingman (Oct 1, 2011 at 6:32)

Highlands is such a great place for contests and events the people there are soo nice and i would recommend going!!!!

reks (Oct 1, 2011 at 20:44)

Anybody know if they have rescheduled the last GES race? I remember hearing that the tentative w/e would be October 15th/16th. Also, this sounds pretty sick.

mikeyk (Oct 2, 2011 at 10:08)

Yeah I think it's still planned for that weekend.

kylecp1 (Oct 3, 2011 at 6:13)

I ride at highland a lot. It is great. But this sounds like you have to have the right "all mountain" rig to do this. If the DH seeding is on the DH race track they have- you woud kill your XC bike on that and ODB/lower Threshold. And your dh bike would kill YOU trying to climb up Easy Rider.

My (dumb) question is: can you switch bikes befor the climb to the top at the end!?!?!?

lucent (Oct 4, 2011 at 16:26)

same bike for everything. My guess is that an all mountain rig will kill it on this course, something around 5" of travel.

steepz (Sep 30, 2011 at 15:55)

I really wish there was cool races like this in so cal...its either full dh at southridge or xc at vail lake

youngFR (Sep 30, 2011 at 16:49)

mabey something like the Socal Bike Park as seen on facebook can make somthing like this a possible down here in socal.
check them out
www.facebook.com/#!/socalbikepark

VTwintips (Oct 1, 2011 at 11:46)

this is certainly something new to the northeast too brigadierbuege.

Plasticpylo (Sep 30, 2011 at 23:57)

I hope Athy is going to enter this as his new focus is on Enduro.

lelandjt (Oct 3, 2011 at 8:38)

Too short notice! If this was announced a couple weeks earlier I could have done it. That prize purse justifies a plane ticket.

a-donch (Oct 10, 2011 at 12:50)

How does the amateur class start work? If you register early, do you essentially get a head start on everyone who registed behind you?

dh-freeride (Sep 30, 2011 at 16:32)

can't wait. this will be a good time.

Session603 (Sep 30, 2011 at 17:01)

you wont enter.

scott-townes (Sep 30, 2011 at 17:07)

I wish I was still in NH to enter... something to look forward to next year! I'm not shocked at all that Highland is adding this because they've always killed it and kept up with the illest shit.

GreasyCaveman (Sep 30, 2011 at 17:22)

Are you going to enter the brakeless 29er or the chainless reign?

Session603 (Sep 30, 2011 at 23:50)

Highland is definitely the bee's knees.

dh-freeride (Oct 1, 2011 at 11:45)

this one i will enter. pretty sure the skyla will be mine for the event. booya. and if that is not the case it will be the brakeless 29er. brakes only slow you down.

Session603 (Oct 1, 2011 at 12:04)

Great answer bobby. If props mattered and I could give you multiple, I assure you I would do so.

SleepeR1st (Oct 2, 2011 at 0:28)

What is the estimated mileage on this route? I've never been to Highland but maybe now is the time to start going?

airtym FL (Oct 3, 2011 at 5:36)

Would kill to run this race. Very short notice though. I need to plan this stuff well in advance with the boss.

SleepeR1st (Oct 13, 2011 at 6:07)

Anyone object to me taking my rigid 29er on this race?

forestman (Sep 30, 2011 at 15:59)

Entering that race would be awesome!

nouser (Sep 30, 2011 at 16:14)

do it

cubsrtbest99 (Sep 30, 2011 at 17:27)

Ohhh man this is going to be awesome!

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acavelti (Sep 30, 2011 at 15:16)

cool

qman11 (Sep 30, 2011 at 15:34)

looks awsome

heatherct (Oct 1, 2011 at 7:51)

this is awesome

Lexatron14 (Sep 30, 2011 at 15:48)

Soooo tempting!

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Prestige (Oct 1, 2011 at 1:50)

I suppose that I'm not really target group, since living in Finland. Somehow just feel sorry for North-America. I wonder when will you get your Enduro races "right". I mean that in Europe Enduro races do have some bit's of small uphills, or often there's none. Pedaling is much more on flat bit's or slight descents where downhill is not steep enough. Meaning that you don't have to be XC whippet fit, but also riding it on DH bike you'd lose too much time on pedaling bits. If you have that massive uphills as this post indicates it changes the game. Differences in uphill area always much bigger than in downhill. So it's always the fittest guy winning, not the all-around fastest.

taletotell (Oct 1, 2011 at 6:23)

You just described the super d series in Oregon. I know in other types of racing people talk about the strengths and weaknesses in different tracks. Racers have to versatile to stay up in the points. Is enduro the exception? Also, enduro is fairly new to the east coast of the USA. We'll figure out the best way to use our terrain soon enough. With our smaller mountains long descents without climbs isn't possible in most places. Locally the highest point is about 300m with a prominence closer to 200m.

If you are going to pity us pity our bike-ignorant culture, with roads designed to kill us and ignorant authorities trying to kick us out of the forests. Our races aren't too shabby.

mikeyk (Oct 1, 2011 at 16:19)

Don't feel too bad for us north america riders.... at least those of us who live near highland. it is literally one of the sickest places on earth. That said I can think of little worse than riding up that trail, but I'll cheer on everyone that does!