Pinnacle Challenge Course
Newport, NH Multi-Sport Adventure Race. |
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Race Course Descriptions:
- Start, Finish, & Transition Area
- The Start is across Route 10 from the Newport High School / Recreation Complex in Newport, NH. The Finish and the Transition area is located directly across Route 10 from the Start in the fenced in area between Route 10 and the track. See the map below for details.
- Road Run (5.0 miles) Map
- The Road run starts adjacent the Football Tower on Rt 10 and heads north until you get to the airport. Then take a left into the airport, go straight through on the dirt road, and make a left onto Corbin Rd. Stay straight into N. Newport passing under the historic Corbin Covered Bridge until you get to the Fletcher Rd intersection where you will circumvent the island and return back the way you came. Returning on Route 10, pass the starting point and take a left at the end of the fence into the Transition area.
- Mountain Bike (5.4 miles) Map
- The Mountain bike leg will gain serious vertical immediately upon entering the woods, you will climb doubletrack before entering your first section of singletrack. More climbing awaits you as you pass the 2 town Water Towers on a rocky doubletrack uphill. Then about a ½ mile of singletrack before spitting back out on the double track in time for another ascent to a scenic lookout before entering more singletrack, this time a bit more technical, with a downhill to start.. Then a long traverse including the "Pump Track in the Sky" followed by a singletrack downhill winding through the woods and then spitting back out on doubletrack and cruising to the transition.
- Road Bike (13.75 miles)
Map
- A time trialers dream, at least the first part. Flat, Flat, Flat, until you reach Croydon Fire Station, where you will encounter our major climb. Only ¾ of a mile up Loverin Hill. You can see the top. A downhill rester before a sharp left hand bender to a slight upgrade by backcountry roads, then downhill past some old farms back onto Flat Route 10 to the transition.
- Trail Run (3.65 miles) Map
- This follows the same course as the Mountain bike leg. Only shorter. One short-cut will let you scramble up “big rock” before more climbing on doubletrack, at the crest of the climb you will skip the downhill and traverse sections of the Mountain bike leg and bound back down through the woods to the finish line.
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