Alas Alpine Epic like other great events has succumbed to lack of entries and hence viability so we were of course very disappointed to hear the news we’d hoped so not to hear – our event was unfortunately cancelled just over one month out from the start date.
However we are not to be discouraged and have thought long and hard on how we can still fly the flag for raising awareness and money.
So (drum roll please : ) I'm please to say we will be doing two events in two weeks at the beginning of April.
First off the block on the 2nd of April will see us travelling up to Blenheim to compete in the iconic Graperide - the catch being we will be doing two laps of the famous course and that = 202kms www.graperide.co.nz
Two weeks later we'll head down to Wanaka and compete in the Contact Epic - a Mountain Bike race that takes us around, up and over Lake Hawea and covers a distance of 125m. www.contatcepic.co.nz
So between these two events we'll be covering more distance in less time than our original event and will be really pushing our limits to do so - training for two different races - a road bike and a mountain bike race is quite different so just as much of a challenge - if not more than our original plan!
More updates on Dec/Jan to come….
About Us
- Ruth and Andrew
- Follow Ruth and Andrews adventures through a summer of cycling - whether its donning on the lycra to race with the roadies or scrapping the dirt off their happy faces like true mountain bikers - all in the pursuit to raise awareness for Parkinson's disease and some money along the way too!
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