Intial notes on the Mt. Victory Race

Mt Victory Road Race - Spring Series

Welcome to the Pilot running of the Mt Victory Road Race, a part of the Kentucky/Indiana Spring Bicycle Road Series.  This event will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2008. 

The cycle-sport athletes of the Somerset, Kentucky and Upper Lake Cumberland Region our proud of our training grounds and we hope you will find racing here to be a beautiful experience.

The Mt. Victory Road Race will begin at the Stab Firehouse (elevation 830'), located just off of Kentucky Highway 80, east of Somerset.  For those of you who are GPS informed, you may program your device to 37 09.074 N by 84 25.213 W.

From the Stab Firehouse, the course proceeds east 4 miles to Adams Grocery (GPS 37 08.623 by 84 22.240).  The course then turns south (right) on highway 1675 and immediately ascends at a 7% grade for one half mile to the top of the ridge. The road across the ridge is scenic, rolling and is composed mainly of wonderfully reclaimed strip mile lands. At the ten mile mark beyond the start, the racers will encounter a junction of two roads (elevation 1250). This constitutes the beginning of the Providence Loop. This area is affectionately known to area cyclists as "the radio tower" (37 04.018 by 84 22.536) as will be evident when you cross over the area.

The junction of the roads at the radio tower is the beginning of the Providence Loop portion of the Race Course. This is an eleven mile loop with 1,110 feet of vertical climbing and descending. There is a one mile length climb on Providence Road that has an average grade of 7% but reaches a maxium grade of 12%. 

If you would like to plot the loop on your GIS software, here are the turns for the Providence Loop:

Radio Tower (co-ords given above)
right turn on Kentucky Highway 192 (37 01.878 by 84 23.168) This is Mt. Victory
right turn on Providence Road (37 01.878 by 84 25.495)
right turn on hw 1003 (37 04.523 by 84 23.490)
then back to the "radio tower"

Based on your category, you will complete the Providence loop one, two or three times before turning back across the ridge at "the radio tower" to complete the final ten miles of the race.

With the exception of the few up rolling hills, the final ten miles of the course will be "down hill" descending from 1,300' to 800'.  It will be a fast finish. 

Since this course weaves inand out of the Daniel Boone National Forest (no leash laws), there may be some problems with loose dogs. Please be aware of that.

Summary
The course is composed of a 10 mile segment out to an 11 mile circut.  Thus, the minimum distance will be 10+11+10= 31 miles.

Each aditional Providence loop will at 11 miles. 42, 53, 64, ect.