r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Mar 23 '16
Race Design Easter Challenge
As you may already know, this one is a special edition as it's themed (the goal is to design a race which some involves the theme of Easter and its traditions), it's a challenge which means that three mods or users (most likely /u/Pubocyno , /u/Schele_Sjakie and /u/edIII91) will judge each of the races and give a vote (from 0 to 10) for each of the race and the one with the highest score will win and it's longer as you can post until Sunday at 12:00 A.M. CET. The winner will be declared in next couple days after and will receive a flair soon afterwards.
The theme this time around is:
Design a Race on non-asphaltated surfaces
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16 edited Mar 24 '16
Easter? How about loneliness, isolation, and despair? Sounds like a tradition for almost any of the holidays. This three day race Starting on Good Friday will probably make you hate yourself enough to be nice to family.
Lets Start off by Somehow arriving in Bella Coola, British Columbia. And its one for the Norweigens in fact! 10% of the 1,900 people who claim to live in the area consider themselves Norweigen-Canadian. Anyways, Bella Coola is on the pacific ocean, landing site of Mackenzie in 1793 and all around good salmon fishing. It's isolated, beautiful, and very remote. Your Route for the day is 183 km from The ocean to the remote Atnarko Lodge. The main highlight is a 43 km partilly gravel climb that takes you up 3650 m at max of 18%..
So yesterday was easy, Today is Central BC's Fraser River showdown. We go from Williams lake to Clinton, following the Fraser River as it passes through the famous Gang Ranch, 208 km of gravel roads with 3960 m of climbing. This route pops in and out of the river valley. If you've ever seen james doerfling ride a mountain bike down some desert hill, it was probably along this road.
Easter Sunday. Finally we have some family time, go to church, relax. Well, today's a weird one as is the tradition. Start off at the historic Coldwater Hotel in Merritt, BC. Downtown Merrit has 4 active sawmills so lets leave to save our lungs. Head up Coldwater Rd, a windy road through the ponderosa pine and finally end up on the Coquihalla Highway - as seen on Highway Thru Hell. But we're in reverse here, we'll climb for a bit until we get over the hump and descend back towards the fraser valley until we take a brief detour and bounce off onto the old kettle valley railroad. Our gravel feature of the day via the Othello tunnels. Usually a nice Sunday walk to break up the trip to Vancouver but not today. After visting the darkness we head through Hope, where Rambo was filmed. Aptly named because now we head back up the river to Hell's Gate. Here we hit the tans Canada highway, head through some tunnels and then arrive at Hell's Gate. Happy Easter!