Granny Gear has announced a 24 Hour Race National Point Series. It’s a series made up of 6 of Granny Gear’s 24 hour races. The best 3 results count for the series. Part of the deal is the entry fee goes down for each additional race you do. I really think their entry fees are overpriced for what they provide. I’ve only done their 24 Hours of Moab but I’ve done that 4 times solo. Although some of the 24 Hours of Adrenalin events are about the same. I really wonder though how many teams are out there that do 3 events. They riders I know that do the 24 Hours of Moab are doing shorter NORBA races the rest of the year and Moab just an end of the season thing.
Another new long distance MTB series this year is the National MTB Ultra Endurance Series. It’s a series of 6 100 mile races with 4 races counting for the series. It’s good to see more and more choices in long distance MTB races. Once I get RAAM out of my system, I plan to go back to doing long MTB races. I think the growth of long MTB races is in part because the NORBA races have gotten so short and on such fast courses instead of the epic courses that were common back in the early 90s when mountain biking was new.
Tags: 24 Hours of Moab, endurance racing, Mountain Bike
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I totally agree about the change in Norba courses. Back when I was racing in the early 90’s, they had some races at snowshoe wv. It was tight twisty single track with probably 50 logs crossing the course. A couple years ago I was out there again, and I checked out the latest Norba course. It was almost all on fire-roads.
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