May 19, 2012 Event #3 in the King of the Mountains Century Challenge Registration is now open. If you choose the "pay by check" option, please mail a copy of the confirmation with your payment so we know which event the check is for! General Information and Ride Rules - Please read! Click here for the 2012 Roster Click here to see the 2011 Heartbreak Hundred Results Click here to see results from prior years! For information on the Heartbreak Double Century, click here Entry Fees Century - $80. HOWEVER, take advantage of our EARLY BIRD SPECIAL and save $10 by registering six weeks before the event! Early registration ends two weeks before the event. Thereafter, up until midnight on the Tuesday before the event, you may make an online reservation using the Register Now link and pay $90 at the door. Start/Finish Hotel Holiday Inn Express, 612 Wainright Court in Lebec. (661) 248-1600. We've negotiated a group rate of $84 per night. An online reservation link will be available shortly; or you can call and ask for the Planet Ultra rate. Directions I-5 to Frazier Mountain Park Road exit. Turn right on Lebec Rd and then right on Frazier Mountain Park Rd. Click here for a map. Come Prepared Please be in shape for this event. If you cannot complete a moderately hilly century in 7-8 hours, you'll struggle finishing this ride within the time limit. An "I can do it" attitude is a wonderful plus, but only if you're already conditioned for this type of challenge. Check-In Rider check-in will be Friday night from 7pm to 9pm and Saturday morning from 6:30am to 8:30am. Chip-Timed Event This is not a race, but it is a timed event. Planet Ultra uses electronic chip timing -- so you must wear your timing chip on the top of your helmet and your sticker number on the right side of your helmet, and you must check-in at the finish. If you fail to wear your timing chip, or do not pass under the start/finish, you will be listed as DNF in the results. Please don't email us after the event to change your results if you failed to follow these rules. We only fix typos or other problems that are our fault. Start Times Century riders may start between 8:00am and 9:00am. This may seem late in the day for some of you, but it's a must-do since this event is being held in conjunction with the Heartbreak Double Century, which starts 50 miles away at 5:30 am on the same morning and heads this direction. You must choose your start time based on your expected finishing time. If you leave too early, you will not receive a start time, as our timing equipment will not be activated before 8:00am.The finish line opens at 2pm - and not one minute sooner - so plan accordingly. Here are the guidelines: • 10-12 hours: Please start between 8am and 8:15am • 9-10 hours: Please start between 8:15am and 8:30am • 8-9 hours: Please start between 8:30am and 8:45am • Under 6: Please start between 8:45am and 9:00am • 5 hours to 5:15: Please start at 9:00am Please note: If you start too early, you may reach the finish line before it opens at 2pm. If you do, your finish time will be calculated based on a 2pm finish. Under no circumstances will the finish line open before 2pm. If you think that starting early will help you “beat the heat,” forget it… everyone will be on the road in the noontime hours, no matter what. So please folks, let the riders who need the time get a little head start. Time Limit 10 hours. All century riders must be off the course by 6pm to receive KOM credit and to be listed as an official finisher. Twilight Twilight begins 5:12; Twilight ends 20:28. Sunrise is 5:42; Sunset is 19:58. Routing and Navigation Planet Ultra route sheets include lots of useful information to help riders navigate the course. For example, we'll let you know if a turn is at a stop sign (SS), traffic light (TL) or T-intersection (T-int). We know that riders like to have the course marked. However, many of the towns/cities/counties specifically request that no markings are placed in the road. Our permits are contingent on NOT doing this. Further, Planet Ultra events are held way far away from where we live - and we travel to the destination the day before the event to make everything happen. We can't mark the course in advance. If we have the manpower to send someone out before the riders in the morning to mark the course, we'll do our best to make that happen (unless it's forbidden by our permits, otherwise illegal, somewhere that locals would be really upset about it, or the turn is at a place that's very obvious, like a big green highway sign). Our experience is that riders get lost whether the course is marked or not - because they're not paying attention. Fewer riders get lost when they're mindful of where they are on the route sheet. Please understand and take responsibility for navigation. Make it part of your experience. Personal SAG Vehicles Not allowed! If you bring one, you will be disqualified from the event without a warning. The definition of a personal SAG is any vehicle (motor or otherwise), anywhere on the route, operated by someone other than Planet Ultra staff, that is providing any type of aid, assistance, or motivation to any rider, or taking photographs, or simply out cheering. Please understand that our permits simply don't allow dozens of extra vehicles on the roads or at the checkpoint locations. Imagine the traffic from all those cars! If you're bringing someone with you who wants to be out on the course helping, please have them contact us and join our volunteer staff. We can always use extra help out on the course. Ride Description - NOTE: Route sheets will be available as an excel file to registered riders if so requested via email between two weeks and five days before the event. However, we cannot guarantee that the route sheet will be 100% accurate. Though not anticipated, last-minute routing changes may be required. Leaving the start line, a short quick climb to Tejon Pass gives way to a short descent into Frazier Park. Relish that warm up, for now the climbing begins in earnest. The next 30 miles are mostly uphill, though there are a few nice descents along the way. As you climb toward the summit of Mt. Pinos, take time to look around; the scenery here is truly beautiful, as the high desert gives way to alpine forests and gently sloping mountain meadows. Look to your left at Lake of the Woods and see the road you will be descending later in the afternoon, then look ahead at the road that will take you higher into the mountains. Deep in the mountains you will reach the private community of Pine Mountain Club, a flat spot on the road, and a checkpoint break at mile 17 before the climb up to Apache Saddle. After reaching Apache Saddle, prepare yourself for one of the most rewarding descents in all of Southern California. You will roll and then descend for 20 miles along the ridge line that divides the Lockwood Valley on your left from the huge Central Valley on your right. Look around for wildlife as you ride through the Los Padres National Forest and the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge. The downhill continues at Highway 166. A left here and another onto Highway 33, and then you will be a few miles from our second checkpoint at "The Place" at mile 54 in downtown Ventucopa. Leaving "The Place" in Ventucopa you will follow the beautiful Cuyama Valley and Cuyama River to a left turn at Lockwood Valley Road. As you enter Lockwood Valley you will encounter a gradual climb that just keeps getting steeper. As you reach the infamous Heartbreak Hill in the afternoon sun you will learn whey "Heartbreak Hill" got that name. Leaving Heartbreak Hill, you will descend and climb your way to Frazier Park and eventually return to the start/finish in Lebec. This 100 mile event has just shy of 8,500' of total elevation gain, which is a lot! Volunteers We always need volunteers!!! We can only put these events on with the help of loyal, trustworthy, motivated individuals running the checkpoints along the way. To provide a little incentive, we offer one free entry into any Planet Ultra event for each time you volunteer at a Planet Ultra event. It's a simple formula: "work one, ride one free!" So please contact us to let us know when and where you'd like to help. Please note that the intent of the "work one, ride one free" offer is to encourage riders themselves to give something back to the sport they love. However, we also appreciate when riders bring along family and friends who they've recruited to help out, so we're offering a one-half ride credit to the recruiter if the volunteer doesn't want the ride credit. Ride credits must be used within a year of the date of volunteering.

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• Date:
  May 19, 2012
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• Who:
  Ray Eastwood
• Email:
  rayeastwood@verizon.net
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  http://www.planetultra.com/HB100/index.html