Saturday June 20th 2009
Founders Brewing Company presents the Lumberjack 100 and the Michigan Ultra Single Speed Championship. Michigan’s only 100-mile mountain bike race! The Lumberjack 100 will once again utilize Michigan’s beautiful Manistee National Forest, with a 25-mile loop snaking through the Big-M Ski Area. The Michigan style single track; composed mostly of hard pack trail, occasional sandy sections, and fast rolling terrain offers twists and turns that demand constant power, and total concentration as the trails quickly turn to nothing more than green blurs of forest. (If you’re expecting easy, fire-road coasting, look elsewhere!) Ninety nine percent of the 25-mile, 4-lap race is comprised of this single track that will eventually push racers over 10,000 feet of total elevation gain.
From the pro/elite racers, to those that will find victory in just surviving a race like the Founders Lumberjack 100, the post-race meal has also made this a must-be-there event for both racers and spectators alike. In addition to enjoying the catered meal; there will also be post-race prizes including a Cannondale Rush frameset, Velocity wheelset, Thomson Elite seat posts and stems, other bike schwag awarded to random race participants.
The Founders Lumberjack 100 is proud to be a stop on the National Ultra-Endurance Mountain Bike 100 Series.
$130 entry fee includes: the race, aid-stations, timing, event t-shirt, pint glass, and post race meal.
Early Registration: $130.00
After March 1st: $150.00
You can transfer your entry to another race via Bike-Reg. Deadline for transfer is June 1st 2009, $20 fee applies.
From the pro/elite racers, to those that will find victory in just surviving a race like the Founders Lumberjack 100, the post-race meal has also made this a must-be-there event for both racers and spectators alike. In addition to enjoying the catered meal; there will also be post-race prizes including a Cannondale Rush frameset, Velocity wheelset, Thomson Elite seat posts and stems, other bike schwag awarded to random race participants.
The Founders Lumberjack 100 is proud to be a stop on the National Ultra-Endurance Mountain Bike 100 Series.
$130 entry fee includes: the race, aid-stations, timing, event t-shirt, pint glass, and post race meal.
Early Registration: $130.00
After March 1st: $150.00
You can transfer your entry to another race via Bike-Reg. Deadline for transfer is June 1st 2009, $20 fee applies.
2009 RECAP
WomenWell the 2009 Founders Lumberjack 100 has come and gone. The 5th year anniversary was an interesting one. A cool spring could only mean one thing to me, it was about to change and it sure did. The week leading up to the race the weather pattern started to shift. 50's and 60's were replaced with high 70's and rain was becoming a daily occurrence. The rain was actually helping the dry sandy conditions but I sure had my fingers crossed because they were getting hammered with heavy rain south of us. In fact, almost to the day a huge storm hit the area just south of the race site with heavy rain and tornado's. Once again, just like 2008 the storm took out bridges, knocked out power and closed roads. Thankfully it wasn't Mason county this time!
Single Speed
Single Speed
MenThe night before the race it rained pretty good, from 2:30am until 7:00am we received about 3/4 of an inch, this we could live with! The moto sweep reported the swamp to be dry and no trees down, just some annoying damp face slappers and some slick turns.
Once the race was off the heat began to pick up literally and figuratively. The temps climbed to the mid 80's and it was humid. The racers were just as hot, in fact by days end, a record pace was set in each of the race classes!
Masters
WolfPeople seemed to enjoy the on-site awards and raffles and it sure made the volunteers lives easier. Plan on this version from now on, it was a winner.
There is some discussion of a 3 lap format next year. I have designed a loop that will work but it does contain about 3-4 miles of two track or forest roads. We would have to consider if we need an additional aid station or if racers can live with an aid station every 16.5 miles instead of every 8-16 miles. The inner outer loop transition would not exist in this configuration. Shoot me and email with your thoughts, we'll weigh them carefully and decide before registration in 2010.
Chis, Jeff and Lakeon(how cool is it to race with the Pros and then hang out with them!?)
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Rick and Cathy
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