{"id":797299,"date":"2019-07-02T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=368254"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:09:19","slug":"fourth-of-july-firecracker-50-mountain-bike-race-in-breckenridge-quadruples-pro-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/fourth-of-july-firecracker-50-mountain-bike-race-in-breckenridge-quadruples-pro-purse\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth of July Firecracker 50 mountain bike race in Breckenridge quadruples pro purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2018 Firecracker 50\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pc1dpNli44E?feature=oembed\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><noscript><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2018 Firecracker 50\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pc1dpNli44E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 The men\u2019s and women\u2019s champions of Thursday\u2019s Firecracker 50 mountain bike race will take home $2,000 each \u2014 four times as much as pro\/open race winners won at last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>The Firecracker 50, a 50-mile mountain bike race that has kicked off Fourth of July celebrations in Breckenridge since 2001, was able to up the purse thanks to working with the town of Breckenridge, the Breckenridge Restaurant Association and Rocky Mountain Underground, race director and Breck local Jeff Westcott, of Maverick Sports Promotions, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s second-place finishers will receive $1,000, third place will receive $500 and fourth will take home $250. These are all marked increases from previous races. Last year, top finishers received $500, $350, $250 and $175, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Firecracker 50 course will take riders up and into the mountains east of Breckenridge. The race starts the town\u2019s Fourth of July parade in a neutral start format by wave. The first section of the race is the climb out of Breckenridge on the old narrow-gauge railroad grade. From there, the course sends riders into the backcountry.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s route will be two laps over a 24.48-mile course, including 3,951 feet of total elevation gain. Aid stations will be around mile markers 5.4 (Baker\u2019s Tank), 11.2 (Wirepatch Mine), 19 (Extension Mill Road) and back at Carter Park near mike marker 25. The course will top out around mile marker 10 at just over 11,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s pro champions were Larissa Connors (two-time women\u2019s champion) and Payson McElveen (two-time defending men\u2019s champion).<\/p>\n<p>For more and information and to register, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavsports.com\/firecracker-50\/\">MavSports.com\/firecracker-50<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/fourth-of-july-firecracker-50-mountain-bike-race-in-breckenridge-quadruples-pro-purse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] [embedded content] BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 The men\u2019s and women\u2019s champions of Thursday\u2019s Firecracker 50 mountain bike race will take home $2,000 each \u2014 four times as much as pro\/open race winners won at last year\u2019s event. The Firecracker 50, a 50-mile mountain bike race that has kicked off Fourth of July celebrations in Breckenridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 11:05:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}