When I raced nationals at Bear Creek in 2013 and 2014 I stayed at the Red Roof Inn in Allentown. It's a bit of a drive but I was able to trade some old airline miles for free rooms. Simple but clean. It has been a decade, however, so cannot speak for how it currently is. But Allentown should have a TON of lodging options if you are willing to drive a bit.
Every masters category, male and female, starting at the same time? Are they expecting absolutely no one to show up? No wonder USAC just fired the National Events Coordinator.
The only info on the website is the Fan & Rider code of conduct. Everything else says coming soon. USAC is a complete mess. They have have almost no one working for them anymore. The contact info they have listed are for people they fired more than a month ago. 🤡 show.
They do not have the resources to do amateur road nats, pro road nats and MTB nats 3 weekends in a row. They can't even secure a venue for collegiate MTB nats this fall, which athletic departments want budgeted out 4 months ago. USAC sucks....oh but I forgot..... Bentonville is cool. Middle finger emoji here.
My understanding is that the course that was run on June 4 is pretty much the course that will be run for nationals. There might be some tweaking to the prologue.
What's the elevation profile? A trail map is useless.
I am not sure if this is any help, but here is the course elevation from 2014 amateur nats course at Bear Creek (two laps, cat 2 race).
They changed the start from this, still the same course but now you go up that second finger first for the start (file into left hand climb ST .2 miles from the start, ouch) and finish on the berms trail finder extension. Also rumors that they were going to take out the heckle pit but looks like g Kline saved it.
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Flying out from CO tomorrow. How has the air quality been?They changed the start from this, still the same course but now you go up that second finger first for the start (file into left hand climb ST .2 miles from the start, ouch) and finish on the berms trail finder extension. Also rumors that they were going to take out the heckle pit but looks like g Kline saved it.
Racing thurs and friday if anyone is out there!
2023 USA Cycling XC MTB National Championship White Course
4.1 mi, +475 ft. Bike ride in Berks County, PA
It’s been off and on. We have days where it’s pretty bad (but still rideable) and days where it isn’t too bad. A lot depends on the wind.
Hoping the air quality will be good for the race days, side note I just flew in from Ut and its very hot and humid!
I'm from GJ. Not looking forward to the humidity. 94 here right now with about 13 %
Yeah I doubt it will be much better although the rain may drop the temps a bit if that shows up.
It’s typical east coast rocks. Slippery when wet. Pray it’s dry and for the most part it is rideable then for most people.
I racing he white one. I like it but I have raced at Bear Creek more times than I can count and most of my home trails are similar to the ones at Bear Creek.
