TEAM RELAY RULES AND PROCEDURES
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The Endurance 100 Mountain Bike Race is excited to offer team relay racing for the 2006 event. The E100 organizers hope that the team relay option will grow in popularity each year.

The Team Concept
100 miles of arduous single track racing in not everyone’s “cup of tea”, to put it mildly. Virtually all mountain bike racers love single track and the trails used for the E100 course are as good as any in the World. It would be a real injustice to preclude any racer who, for what ever reason, isn’t into hammering for 50 to 100 miles this July 24th. To accommodate this, the team relay race is offered. The following is a description of how the race will work and what you need to do to participate.

Race Course Structure
The Endurance 100 Mountain Bike Race course is comprised of five, roughly 20-mile, sections defined as sections “A”, “B”, “C”, “D” and “E”. The race begins at the start of section “A” and finishes at the end of section “E”. Each of these sections will have a team relay check-in station at its termination point. Each check-in station will be integrated with a general race-aid station as well.

Relay Team Structure
Each relay team may have a maximum of five racers and a minimum of two racers. It’s up to the individual teams to determine the number of racers that will compete on their team. Regardless of the number of racers, each team will compete directly with the others in that team’s respective category; in other words a team with two racers may be competing against a team with five racers.

Each team will choose the sequence of course sections their members will ride. If your team consists of five members, then each member will ride one section only. If your team has four racers, then one team member will need to ride two sections with the other members each riding one and so on...two and three member teams will also need to plan accordingly. Furthermore, an individual team member who is riding more than one section will not be required to ride multiple sections consecutively -- a racer may ride section “A”, pass the baton off to a teammate at the beginning of section “B” and then retrieve the baton at the beginning of another section later on. Upon registration, each team will be required to submit a team roster complete with a racer-section sequence. Team memberships are non-transferable. If a team member is unable to compete, a racer section-sequence change may be made at the Team Relay Orientation Meeting but no new team members may be substituted for those originally registered (more discussion of this below). Teams must complete their racer-section sequence as confirmed prior to the race, no exceptions.


The following team categories will be offered:
Men 39 and under (1 or more team members must be 39 years of age or under)
Men 40 and over (all team members must be over 40 years of age to qualify)
Co-ed teams (must have at least one team member of the opposite sex)
Women’s Open (all ages)

Relay Team Orientation Meeting
Each team must attend the pre-race Team Relay orientation meeting on Friday, July 21. During this meeting, each team will be required to confirm the team roster and the team’s racer-section sequence (which course sections each team member will be racing) that was submitted at registration. Also, each team will be issued their team’s race baton at this meeting. The relay-race rules and procedures will be reviewed during this meeting and any questions regarding the race will be answered. It is mandatory that at least one team member be in attendance (best if all members attend). Any team that does not have at least one team member in attendance at this meeting will be disqualified from the race.

Additional Relay Race Rules & Procedures
A. Teams must have their baton, from start to finish, in the possession of the racer who is currently racing on course. The team member racing section “A” will have their team’s baton while at the start line. Racers finishing a section must have the team baton in their possession upon arriving at the section check-in / baton transfers station or race finish line.

B. Team members must stop at each check-in station and log (sign) in on the official race log at each check-in station along the way, even if no baton transfer takes place at the station. If the baton is transferred, it must take place in the designated relay check-in area at each station. The transferee (racer waiting to get the baton) must log in at the check-in station prior to the baton transfer; this can be done anytime prior to the exchange. When the on-course racer arrives at the check-in, he/she may immediately transfer the baton to their waiting teammate (providing that their teammate has signed in the log), and then must log in as having completed their section. Waiting racers, upon receiving the baton, may take off on course immediately.

C. Upon the finish of the race the team member who races section “E” will cross the finish line and immediately check in at the finish-line relay check-in station to sign the final log entry for their team. The team baton will be checked in at this time; no baton, no finish time or place.