POC King and Queen of the Hill

Sunday 27 May 2012, Glentress

Event start Peebles Hotel Hydro

TweedLove presents a new all-mountain enduro style race for Britain’s best trail centre. We’re delighted to be working with POC - Swedish royalty when it comes to bike kit, to put together this race - it’s the headline gravity-enhanced event for TweedLove 2012. The race takes place on Forestry Commission Scotland's Glentress Forest Trails.

The format:

This is tough-love, TweedLove style.  Timed stages up, but mainly down, on great trails around Glentress, featuring some cracking natural lines and some of the best man-made riding anywhere. You have to complete all the sections – tough climbs, massive descents and linking stages - and your worst stage result will be dropped from your overall result. Points are awarded depending on your finishing position for each stage, and the riders with the highest totals wear the crowns. After all, to be the King or Queen, you’ve got to rule the whole hill!

Practice is allowed, on certain sections only, the afternoon before and other stages will only be announced on race day - these will not be open for practice beforehand. The race hq, start and finish is at the legendary Peebles Hotel Hydro.

Riders will have to make their way to the top of the hill, via a combination of timed and linking stages, and then come back down via more race and link stages. If you’re experienced in these events, you’ll find the course a lot of fun with some sweet and technical sections of trail to deal with at speed, but the event will also appeal to riders who are keen to have a try at this style of race – you’ll have a blast either way and can choose which sections to smash and when to ease up a bit. You can only ride each section once, and there’s an overall time limit you have to complete your ride within.

Race Information:

Start & finish: Peebles Hotel Hydro

Venue: Glentress Forest

Schedule 

Saturday 26 May:

11am - 1pm, Peebles Hotel Hydro. Race Registration

12noon – 5pm Unmarshalled practice: selected trail sections only

Sunday 27 May:

9am-12noon, Peebles Hotel Hydro. Race Registration

Race Starts: First riders start 11am, last start time 1.15pm

Riders must complete all stages of the race within 4 hours

All riders off the course by 5pm

Prize presentations shortly after 5pm

(Timings are provisional – please check website for any changes)

Notes

Points are awarded depending on where you finish in each stage. Riders with highest points score win.

Poorest stage result eliminated automatically from riders final score.

Riders will be given a timing chip to ‘dib’ at start and finish of each stage.bThese must be handed in at race hq/timing tent immediately on finishing the race.

Full race info available from TweedLove.com prior to race

Solo entries only.

Prize categories:

Junior Male/Senior Male/Masters Male/Vet Male/Super Vet Male

Junior Female/Senior Female/Masters Female/Vet Female/Super Vet Female

Elite categories as necessary