12 Hour Communication
Greetings 12 hour racers and volunteers!!
Thank you for registering for The East Fork Challenge, we are excited to get you out at East Fork State Park for 12 hours of racing! We have a good course out there for you! Please make sure that all teammates receive this email, we are missing a few emails.
Schedule of Events:
Race check in/gear staging: 5:00 am to 6:30 am
Pre-race meeting: 6:30 am
Race Start: 7:00 am
Race Finish: 7:00 pm
The race will start and finish at the shelter above the swimming beach area. There is plenty of parking at the shelter lot, please do not park on the grass. You will stage your boats and paddle gear at the West end of the beach area before the start of the race. Bikes will need to be loaded into a Uhaul truck located at racer checkin by 6:30am. Teams may bring one trashbag per team, clearly labeled with your team name. You may place any bike related gear, food, drink, or any other non-mandatory gear in this bag to be transported with your bikes. We will have water available at transition areas. If you rented a boat for the race, it will already be down at the beach. If you want to use your own pfd and/or paddles instead of the rentals you are welcome to do so; racers will not have to carry paddle related gear on any legs other than the paddleing.
Do not forget the visible orange, it is hunting season at the park during the race!
We will make a decision on maps after this weekend. Scale of the maps will be 1:24000. We may go with our own topo maps with checkpoints pre-marked, or we may go with mytopo maps and you will have to plot utm's. For now, be prepared to plot utm's throughout the race and if things change we will let you know. Maps and further instructions will be handed out at the pre-race meeting at 6:30 am.
The race will end at 7:00pm and a post race pizza meal and awards ceremony will occur after the race.
Directions to East Fork State Park
From Columbus - Travel I-71 South approx. 80 miles to I-275 south. Take I-275 another 15 miles to the Route 125 exit. Go east on route 125 for approx. 15 miles to the East Fork State Park main entrance (Don’t follow signs to the campground). Turn left on S. Bantam, turn left into the park and turn left again on park road 2. The entrance to the shelter is on your right after you pass through the gate
From Cincinnati - Take I-275 east to the Route 125 exit. Go east on route 125 for approx. 15 miles to the East Fork State Park main entrance (Don’t follow signs to the campground). Turn left on S. Bantam, turn left into the park and turn left again on park road 2. The entrance to the shelter is on your right after you pass through the gate
Lodging
There are several motel options at the SR125 exit off of I-275, about 10 miles from the start/finish.
Red Roof Inn - 513-528-2742
Days Inn - 513-528-3800
Motel 6 - 513-752-2262
Also, we have access to a primitive camp at the beach at no charge. If you would like more information about the primitive camping send us an email. The park also has a fee-based campground if you are interested in that.
Thank you to our sponsors Infinit Nutrition, Smitty Cyclery, Benchmark Outfitters, Road ID, and Slats Pub. If you need any last minute items for the race please consider our sponsors.
See you October 1st!
Brian and Mike
Topo Adventure Sports