{"id":1554,"date":"2011-08-01T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irishxcmtb.com\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2011-08-08T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:01:23","slug":"the-final-xc-nps-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/01\/the-final-xc-nps-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final XC NPS of 2011!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date:<\/strong> Sunday 14 August 2011
\nEvent:<\/strong> NPS Round 6 (Final NPS round)
\nVenue:<\/strong> Castlewellan Forest
\nHost club:<\/strong> XMTB McConvey Cycles<\/p>\n

Full details (videos, Garmin routes etc..) can be found on the Ulster XC site HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Online registration is now open and will close on 12th August at 8pm!<\/span><\/p>\n

Race Fees: Adults: \u00a318 (\u20ac20) *,\u00a0Juniors: \u00a39 (\u20ac10) *,\u00a0Youth: Free
\n* Please note that there will be a \u00a35\/\u20ac5 penalty for adults registering on the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

All proceeds from the penalty fee will be donated to St Johns Ambulance. All riders are advised to pre-register for the event as this greatly helps the organisers to ensure accurate and quick results following the finish of races.<\/p>\n

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Register Online!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Course Description: <\/strong>This year\u2019s main course will be a familiar one to those who raced the Ulster Series here in 2010. Located at the far end of the lake the 4.6km (2.8 mile) track twists, turns, climbs and descends through the forest using the forest paths, fire roads and a number of single track sections.
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\nAs has been the setup for the past number of years the lap starts and finishes on the main fire road adjacent to the lake. From the start line the riders will have approx 500m of gently rising fire road on which to spread out and battle for position before turning into the first single track section. Upon reaching the traditional top of the first climb the track continues upwards this year for the senior riders taking you towards the highest point of the lap. The Under 14s will split at this point rejoining at \u2018Spaghetti Junction\u2019. Before topping out however the track takes a left into the second section of single track called the Archer\u2019s Trail. This trail has a bit of everything with tight technical ascents and descents as well as fast flowing corners and a number of stone walls and drops to negotiate.<\/p>\n

Climbing from the Archer\u2019s Trail you have a quick burst back on the fire road climb before entering the next single track. A tight and technical climb with multiple lines takes you to the top of the mountain and onto the \u2018Loggers Trail\u2019. First used last year due to felling operations, the Loggers trail is fast and flowy ending with a number of steep drops. The main loop then joins with the Under 14\u2019s course and both then make the final decent of \u2018Moorish Tower\u2019 and the \u2018Waterfall\u2019.<\/p>\n

A quick blast along the fire road takes the riders out towards the Cypress pond. In a change to last year\u2019s course the track cuts off early utilising a section first used by Banbridge CC to cut across and join the Cypress Pond Trail. This last kilometre of trail passes surprisingly quickly and before you know it you\u2019ll be dropping into the iconic section above the finish line. The two wall crossings and the final drop into the finish will demand concentration right to the end.<\/p>\n

The Under 8\u2019s, 10\u2019s and 12\u2019s all have new laps for this year. All are located at the top of the start straight and use a stretch of the fire road and the area of forest on its right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: Sunday 14 August 2011 Event: NPS Round 6 (Final NPS round) Venue: Castlewellan Forest Host club: XMTB McConvey Cycles Full details (videos, Garmin routes etc..) can be found on the Ulster XC site HERE Online registration is now open and will close on 12th August at 8pm! Race Fees: Adults: \u00a318 (\u20ac20) *,\u00a0Juniors: \u00a39 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,53],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xc","tag-nps","tag-xc-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}