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New Endurancelife Coastal Trail Quest Series

News Release / 10.09.2008

Building on the success of the Coastal Trail Series, the must-do series for all trail runners, Endurancelife is launching a brand new series of events in the South West of England and Wales specifically for mountain bikers and cyclo-cross riders.

This winter, the Coastal Trail Quest Series brings the exciting sport of bike orienteering to the coast. The unique series of events will showcase the UK’s finest stretches of coastline and take riders on an exhilarating journey inland, along paths, tracks and green lanes packed with charm yet full of challenge.

Each Coastal Trail Quest event will host a short score (3 hour) and medium score (5 hour) race with both races open to solo entries or pairs. Armed with maps of the area, participants in each race must cycle to as many checkpoints as possible within the given time period. Good strategy will be needed as well as pace and good bike skills to carry riders through to the top ranks.

The Coastal Trail Quest Series will take in seven spectacular locations over seven months kicking off with Dorset’s celebrated Jurassic Coast on November 9th 2008. The series then moves on to The Gower, Portland, South Devon, Pembrokeshire and West Cornwall before rounding off on Exmoor in May 2009. Each event is limited to 150 places and early booking is recommended.

“Bike orienteering is a fantastic sport and the Coastal Trail Quest Series is a great way for mountain bikers and cyclo-cross riders to get involved. The courses will test riders’ navigational skills, bike handling skills and endurance over a variety of terrain amid some of our most stunning coastal scenery” said Endurancelife director, Andrew Barker.

“The beauty of trailquest is that it caters for all levels of experience. Riders effectively determine the difficulty of their own race by choosing which checkpoints to go for. Some riders will choose to focus on the more straightforward routes to bag the lower scoring checkpoints. Other, more experienced, riders may seek out the more demanding routes and their efforts will be rewarded with higher scoring checkpoints” explains Barker.

Prizes will be awarded for winning performances across a number of different age categories. Heroic feats of sportsmanship will also be rewarded. Coastal Trail Questers who enter at least 4 out of the 7 events in the series will compete for the top series prizes.

For more information and bookings go to www.endurancelife.com.