Furious 3 2012 Day 3
June 27, 2012 Leave a comment
Stage 1: July 2, 2012
Distance: 24.8 Miles / 40 kms
Elevation Gain/Loss: 5400 ft / 1645 m
Course Description:
The last day of the race will bring riders quickly to a singletrack climb full of switchbacks and roots into the Ridgemont area. Riders will have constantly changing climbs and descents on singletrack to experience the rest of the trails that have not yet been riden on the previous two days. Once done in the Ridgemont area, riders will start to ascend River Road, a logging road that will bring them once again to the bottom of Hyperventilation. If they didn’t clear it on the first day, now is their chance to try to climb this technical singletrack in one go. At the top, however, riders will be turning right to continue climbing up Castle Rocks, a trail that is not quite as steep, but quite exposed, before reaching Southern Comfort and then South Castle, a trail that has some fast, fun doubletrack descending before transitioning into classic singletrack with more technical sections. A small break on the logging road before one last singletrack descent on Roots to bring you back to the rolling Powerline trail back to town and the finish the riders have been waiting for in the City of Fernie.
My time on Day 3 was 2:55:29. The total cumulative time over 3 days was 9:40:13 which moved me into 9th place in the 40+ Category.
Kirk’s time on Day 3 was 3:25:31. His total cumulative time over 3 days was 11:26:30 placed him in 4th in the 50+ Category.
Overall we both had a great weekend of racing. The course was fun and very well marked this year. Other than some mud it was some of the most fun riding we have had this year.
The Ride Guide was on hand to serve up great videos for the 3 days of the Furious 3 Fernie. Here’s the action from day 3.