50/100 2015 Wildcat epic events
The Wildcat 100/50 mountain bike races Saturday started off without rain, though that didn’t last.
The three races, a 50 miler, a 50K, and a 100 miler take a course through Lippman Park in Wawarsing and Vernooy Kill and Sundown Wild forests and are the result of collaboration with both Renegades Mountain Bike Club and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Wildcat is in its sixth year and continues to improve and refine.
Gunter Spilhaus, race director, give a lot of credit to the Renegades.
“The Renegades, these guys are incredible. The marked the course,” Spillus said.
This year’s course is ‘refined’ he explained .The single track is all at the start and the finish all downhill.
“It really showcases what Lippman Park has to offer,” he said.
The Renegades’ home is at Lippman Park where they have built a first class single-track mountain bike course with approval of the Town of Wawarsing, who owns the park.
The Renegades hold several of their own mountain bike events there throughout the year.
The 50K riders finished just as the rain was starting to come down, again.
Bill Wall of West Hurley expressed his enthusiasm for the sport saying “I like bike racing”.
This was Wall’s second time racing at Lippman.
“I love the way they’ve incorporated the park in it”
He waxed on about the ‘bone section’ an area of cobbles and round rocks.
“Oh, shit. Anything could happen here,” he recalled thinking.
It’s a long rocky decent. He credited his full suspension Kona for helping him get through it unscathed.
Being able to start and finish in the same location was a big plus. And there was beer and BBQ.
Jamie Myers of New Paltz is president of Fats in the Cats bike club and rides for Bike Depot.
He’s participated in Gunter’s bike races since the first one.
“I raced this one and finished and it was fun”.
The race’s partnership with the Renegeades is a bonus to him as well.
Ian McGrew, riding for Overlook Mountain Bikes, won the 100K. This was his first 100K race. He did recently win the Cat 1 19-29 event at the Williams Lake Classic in May.
One feature this course has the most mountain bike races don’t was the back country roads it followed in places
“The course was awesome. There was more road. Being with someone on the road section to draft would have been great,” McGrew said.
But he was out front so that didn’t happen.
He also mentioned the rocky decent at mile 25 or so.
“It was downhill over the biggest rocks. And all wet, relentless. It was great but it was never ending,” McGrew said. “And there was the mandated hike-a-bike through a creek”.
The creek was on DEC land and they required that bikers get off and walk their bikes through the creek to lessen the impact.
“You had to step down into it,” McGrew explained. “My handle bars were under water”.
Another year’s Wildcat on the books.
The three races, a 50 miler, a 50K, and a 100 miler take a course through Lippman Park in Wawarsing and Vernooy Kill and Sundown Wild forests and are the result of collaboration with both Renegades Mountain Bike Club and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Wildcat is in its sixth year and continues to improve and refine.
Gunter Spilhaus, race director, give a lot of credit to the Renegades.
“The Renegades, these guys are incredible. The marked the course,” Spillus said.
This year’s course is ‘refined’ he explained .The single track is all at the start and the finish all downhill.
“It really showcases what Lippman Park has to offer,” he said.
The Renegades’ home is at Lippman Park where they have built a first class single-track mountain bike course with approval of the Town of Wawarsing, who owns the park.
The Renegades hold several of their own mountain bike events there throughout the year.
The 50K riders finished just as the rain was starting to come down, again.
Bill Wall of West Hurley expressed his enthusiasm for the sport saying “I like bike racing”.
This was Wall’s second time racing at Lippman.
“I love the way they’ve incorporated the park in it”
He waxed on about the ‘bone section’ an area of cobbles and round rocks.
“Oh, shit. Anything could happen here,” he recalled thinking.
It’s a long rocky decent. He credited his full suspension Kona for helping him get through it unscathed.
Being able to start and finish in the same location was a big plus. And there was beer and BBQ.
Jamie Myers of New Paltz is president of Fats in the Cats bike club and rides for Bike Depot.
He’s participated in Gunter’s bike races since the first one.
“I raced this one and finished and it was fun”.
The race’s partnership with the Renegeades is a bonus to him as well.
Ian McGrew, riding for Overlook Mountain Bikes, won the 100K. This was his first 100K race. He did recently win the Cat 1 19-29 event at the Williams Lake Classic in May.
One feature this course has the most mountain bike races don’t was the back country roads it followed in places
“The course was awesome. There was more road. Being with someone on the road section to draft would have been great,” McGrew said.
But he was out front so that didn’t happen.
He also mentioned the rocky decent at mile 25 or so.
“It was downhill over the biggest rocks. And all wet, relentless. It was great but it was never ending,” McGrew said. “And there was the mandated hike-a-bike through a creek”.
The creek was on DEC land and they required that bikers get off and walk their bikes through the creek to lessen the impact.
“You had to step down into it,” McGrew explained. “My handle bars were under water”.
Another year’s Wildcat on the books.
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