24 Hours of Light Mountain Bike Race

To celebrate the summer solstice the Contagious Mountain Bike Club of Whitehorse holds an annual relay race. The course is 12-14km and varies year to year. The object of the race is to get as many laps as you can in 24 hours between 12pm Saturday and 12pm Sunday. Teams can be from one individual person up to eight people. Sockeye Cycle sponsored our team of seven and Friday night we loaded a van and made the two and a half hour drive north to the Yukon. We staked a claim in the campgrounds and woke up the next morning ready to ride through the night. 
The course was 13km this year. It started out with some climbing and a few rock sections that led into a nice downhill berm filled section, after the berms it opened up on a ridge line that over looked a valley. You almost expected to see T-Rex walking down there, it was such an amazing view. For the few night laps we had the moon came up over the ridge to illuminate the course. After the ridge you came up on some cruise-y stuff with a few tight trees and to finish the lap you sped down a double track section as fast as you could go. 
The start and finish were next to the time clock and pavilion and it didn’t matter what time you came through there was always someone cheering you on.

 The team had such a great race. We completed 24 laps in 24 hours and place third!