2008 EVENT NEWS
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2007 EVENT REPORT
The 14th Annual 24 Hours of Allamuchy is history. As for the weather, all we can say is, plan for furture years with our new motto in mind: "You don't want to miss the first year without rain!" The weather did play the major role in determining number of laps completed, making a challenging course much slower than it would otherwise have been.
This year we had almost 50 riders more than last year, and most of them were in the solo division. We had a total of 153 solo riders, with a huge increase in women solos.
Highlights of the weekend:
*Guillaume Nelessen of the van Dessel racing team, riding a Single Speed bike in his first mountain bike race of any distance, wins the Men's solo with 10 laps by just staying out there in the mud longer (and getting dirtier) than everyone else.
*Melissa Kern of Team CycleWorks avenges her narrow Women's Solo loss of last year by taking her first Solo title.
*Deb Beattie in her first 24-Hour race wins the Women's 40+ division AND the SURLY bike frame.
*Best Team Name: solo rider Elizabeth Schwartz calls herself "Solo Bear Bait."
*The Specialized Bicycle Components Guy/Gal team of Wiley Mosley and Laura Hanlon wins the 2-person Mixed division and provides all riders with water bottles.
*Princeton Tec makes a big splash with their state-of-the art Switchback 1-2-3 lighting system, offering rentals at Allamuchy for the first time, with a "standing room only" response from the riders.
*Team Midnight Special racks up 18 laps to win the 4-man overall title.
*Team AARP provides our first-ever team in the 50+ 4-man age division.
*Team Bulldog-Campmor makes history, becoming the first-ever all-women team to score (3rd place) in the 5-person division.
*The Corporate division race goes down to the wire with team Bigfoot's Rolex edging team Cyclopaths for the win.
*Our event photographer extraordinaire, Jim Reilly (Imageextreme.com) has a close encounter with an Extra-Large furry forest dweller and captures it on film.
*The combined efforts of the NJ Region Bike Patrol (formerly known as the NJ Ski Patrol), JORBA, and the National Mountain Bike Patrol keep our course and our riders safer than ever before.