Upshur County Uprising WVMBA #7

Upshur County Uprising is race number 7 out of 9 in the West Virginia Mountain Bike Associations' Cross Country MTB Series. IT'S ALSO A NEW RACE in our series!!!!! Better SIGN UP!!!

Each WVMBA Series Race features 3 categories to choose from when selecting your race class. Category selection should be based on fitness, skill, and time to complete the course. 

This race is sanctioned by WVMBA and USA Cycling and requires a race license. For WVMBA this is included in the cost of the event and Annual WVMBA members get $5 off their race entries. If you don't have a USA Cycling License you will be charged for a 1 day license, an additional $15. If you plan to purchase an annual WVMBA membership or a USA Cycling License do so before signing up for the race as we will not refund for getting a license after signing up. If you sign up for a WVMBA membership first before getting your USA Cycling License you will be given a code for $10 off your USA Cycling license https://www.bikereg.com/63786

All Junior, Youth and Just for Fun categories are $30 (+online reg fees) All other classes are $45 (+online reg fees) WVMBA Annual Members will be $25 and $40 respectively. 

Registration closes at 6:00 p.m. Friday June 28th to allow time to submit registrants to our timing company. 

Our racing rules and regulations are on our website for your review in our series. We also have E-Bike options for Class 1 pedal assist e-bikes and those rules are also available at the same place on our website. https://wvmba.com/series/wvmba/

As Upshur County Trails is a new course for WVMBA this year, we wanted to give you a few notes.

This is a course that will reward a pre-ride. It's not technical in terms of major rock gardens, but it's tight and twisty, with steep uphill switchbacks, quick turns, and some options to choose to ride either a feature or a B-line, where you'll want to know what's what in advance. You will hear us say in the racer's meeting: if you haven't ridden an orange-X-marked feature before, don't attempt it on race day! These are full-commit, relatively high consequence features. For everyone's safety, take the B-line if you didn't get a chance to pre-ride.

 Approximately 90% of this course is hand-built singletrack. Passing *will* be a part of your race; please be prepared to talk to your fellow racers and execute safe passes. 

All categories share a prologue of about a mile and a half, followed by a main lap that racers will do one, two or three times. Distances and climbing are as follows:

Novice/Beginner: 7 miles, 910 feetCat 2/Ebike: 12.5 miles, 1640 feet Pro/Cat 1: 17.8 miles, 2370 feet 

There aren't many particularly sustained climbs, but lots of short punchy ones. There are some rocks and roots, and rollers and table tops and small jumps. All challenging features have a ride-around line (marked in blue, as opposed to the orange technical features). There's a lot of fun to be had! And a few trails not included in this race course, so we hope you'll come back to check out these trails in their entirety.

 Upshur County Trails is offering a guided pre-ride on June 1. Our group rides every Wednesday night at 6pm in *almost* all weather--we'll be choosing a Wednesday to post as another guided preride opportunity, but any Wednesday would be a fine time to visit. If these dates don't work for you, reach out to jjford304@gmail.com or juliabethkastner@gmail.com and we'll get you set up with somebody to show you around. Look forward to seeing you on the trails!

Other course information, when available, can be found on the WVMBA website under the “Upshur County Uprising" page. There are three distances to choose from depending on your skill and fitness level.