CARPe Diem MTB Fest

First off, the RACE RESULTS are in. Second, I’d like to thank each and every one of you that came out and made this event a huge success. I was personally unable to attend, but I’ve gotten several emails and seen lots of message board posts talking about how great the event was. That’s AWESOME! And this is the word from Clayton:

Well I think we can say without a doubt that the CARPe diem MTB Festival was a smashing success!

Thanks to everyone for your extremely generous donations, we have about 200 lbs of clothes in my garage right now that are headed up to the AR State Hospital to find new homes. I can’t express to you how much your old clothes will be appreciated by people who often wear the same outfit for days on end. Also we collected a lot of food and $500 in donations for the AR Foodbank. Got a call today saying how grateful they were for your kind contributions, many people will be fed because of your generosity.

As far as the venue and trails go everyone did a great job keeping it clean & green. A big thanks to everyone for recycling too. Went out and ran the course after the festival and only found a few goos on the trail, so muchos gracious for being so conscious of the trails and their purity. One day after the festival everything is cleaner and in better shape than it was before we came. Leave no trace ethics at their best.

This is great!

For those of you that would like to see them, we’ve just uploaded a PDF of the race results for you to enjoy. Looks like some of you really killed it and turned in some super quick lap times; good job all!

I also just found some pictures that were shared (mostly CAT 3s I think); thanks to joshnf for sharing these @ flickr!

We also got some great coverage @ Todays THV, and you should let them know that you want to see more stuff like this. Email is news (at) todaysthv.com to let them know. Thanks to Lindsey Clark for the coverage.

Also everyone’s favorite recumbent mountain biker (take a bow Mike) shared a great video on youtube.