South Canterbury Mountain Bike Club
Sunday 3rd August – Club Ride
Chris Thomas has organized the following Club Ride for this weekend.
Start and finish the ride at Michael Little's farm, (Little Road, off Cave Pareora Road). Start time 10.30am.
Meet at the Aorangi Park car park on Morgans Road, Timaru at 9.30am to car pool.
The proposed course is quite demanding and hilly, exposed to weather and wet so members will need to be well prepared with wet weather gear and good fitness levels. The track would not be marked out and we would be riding through areas with stock so we would need to ride as a group.
Approximately 20 kilometres and 2 – 3 hours
If the weather is looking dodgy, watch out for an email or listen to cancellations on Port FM on Sunday morning or contact Chris Thomas: chris@specialevents.co.nz
‘NZ’s Ultimate Mountain Biking Challenge’ – Lake Hawea
Hello to all those who can proudly say they completed the first ever Contact Epic!! It sure was a fantastic day and one which lead to a lot of pride and achievement (as well as the odd sore part!).
Sponsorship
Contact Energy have powered up their support for the 2009 event. Next year they not only want to support more local community groups and winners but also each of you as well! They are providing every competitor with a free 10 minute massage at the end of the race as well as a free commemorative photo of each competitor somewhere along this picturesque journey. We wish to again thank you for your support in the inaugural year by informing you first of the opening of entries. You have one week to enter on line before we begin to advertise via our database and the local media. Entering before the end of August will save you money as well. To access the discount entitlement all you need to do is enter nzsultimate if you wish to enter the Epic or ultimate if you wish to enter the Classic into the discount code box on the entry page. Any students who completed the 2008 event are also eligible for entry into the open leg of the Epic and therefore LMS kitty. You are also eligible for the free entries offered again by Taff and Penny Cochrane to the first 10 local high school entrants if you are still at school. To receive the free entry all you need to do is be one of the first 10 students to type focstudent into the discount code box. As there is no parental permission section in the open men’s please just print off the entry form and post in with parental permission noted, and your school, on the bottom as well as filling in the online form. Click here to enter on line now: http://www.contactepic.co.nz/entry.html