Encierro Velo Gravel Grinder

Ready to test your courage? Or just looking for a adrenaline rush at the start of a awesome ride? Then Encierro Velo gravel grinder is your spring event. It will wake you up from your winter slumber!

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100 Kilometer and 50 Kilometer  timed gravel grinder with full results. Held on twisty, rolling gravel roads north of Monument and west of Elbert, Colorado. Start and finish at Elbert city park/running track. 

Classes: Men and Women, 18-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60+. No equipment based classes.

Awards and awards ceremony only for 100 Kilometer distance classes. A Colorado Gravel Grinder Championships event . Ride both events and get a 20% disount . Enter code

Feed stations will have water, energy drink, a limited number of energy gels, granola bars, PB&J sandwiches and Lutefisk.

Support crews are allowed but not required. May only give support at fueling stations. Support crews will be required to use specified non-race routes to fueling stations . Although we recommend having a support crew  ,we do not believe that they will provide a distinct advantage. Support crews may greet racers at the feed station by Lincoln Park.

Required:

GPS, working head and tail light (micro light is acceptable), helmet. Course maps will be given out at registration. Particapants are incouraged to mount map to handlebars so that maps are readable while riding. The combination of riding with your head up, haveing a handlebar readable map and course marking arrows, may be sufficient for successful navagation. Maps stuffed in back pocket have low value.

Registration

To March 31 - 100K $34.95 and 50K $29.95

To April 15 - $44.95 and $39.95

To April 27 - $49.95 and $42.95

Day-of - $69.95 and $49.95 

Race one in the Colorado Gravel Grinder Championships. Discount on combined registration with the Pony Xpress Gravel 160 (Trinidad, CO, on May 19)