{"id":807384,"date":"2020-05-12T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=383158"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:35:13","slug":"breck-epic-mountain-bike-event-canceled-for-2020-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breck-epic-mountain-bike-event-canceled-for-2020-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Breck Epic mountain bike event canceled for 2020 due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BreckEpic-SDN-081419-3-1024x653.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BreckEpic-SDN-081419-3-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BreckEpic-SDN-081419-3-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BreckEpic-SDN-081419-3-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BreckEpic-SDN-081419-3.jpg 1357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Brad Keyes rides singletrack, with Mount Guyot in view in the background, during the August 2019 Breck Epic mountain bike race.<\/strong><br \/><em>Liam Doran \/ Breck Epic<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 In an email to racers Tuesday morning, Breck Epic founder and race director Mike McCormack announced the multiday mountain bike race will not take place the third week of August due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded by many as the premier mountain bike race in North America, the Breck Epic brings as many as 600 racers, their friends and families to Breckenridge annually. That includes some of the world\u2019s best racers grinding through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/photos-beauty-of-the-breck-epic\/\">211 miles of intimidating and scenic U.S. Forest Service terrain<\/a> across the county.<\/p>\n<p>In the email, McCormack said the \u201cprevailing sentiment\u201d he received from most racers was that many would come if the race was held, though most wouldn\u2019t if required to race in masks. He also said for most of the race\u2019s international contestants \u2014 more than one-third of this year\u2019s field \u2014 it likely would be \u201csimply impossible to get here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy August 16, we are unlikely to exit Phase 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.summit.co.us\/1330\/Recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Summit County\u2019s recovery guidelines<\/a> in time to loosen mask requirements or social distancing restrictions,\u201d McCormack wrote. \u201cThe economic impact to our community can\u2019t be overstated. This is a truly awful blow to the people who make your coffee, provide your lodging, fix your bikes, roll your sushi and do everything else that makes your week in Breck awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>McCormack further described the situation as \u201cuncharted territory\u201d and added that the annual event\u2019s partners, namely the town of Breckenridge and the Forest Service, have been \u201cnothing short of understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe risk to all of us is exponentially increased with each day that we race,\u201d McCormack wrote. \u201cIf just one person gets sick, we\u2019re ALL going to be sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCormack said the race will return Aug. 15-21, 2021. Until then, racers who requested refunds prior to an April 16 deadline will be refunded in full while others will be provided compensation codes for the 2021 race.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to keep some of the Breck Epic spirit alive for the third week of August, McCormack encouraged those independently still planning on coming to Summit County in August to ride the local courses, pointing online to available routes. He also announced a summerlong online achievement-based event, to launch early next week, dubbed \u201cEpic in Place,\u201d complete with prizes for milestone achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtual events make our eyes reflexively roll, but we think that with (Epic in Place), we\u2019ve come up with something that will help maintain the sense of community that represents the heart of what we all do together,\u201d McCormack wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <\/figure>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breck-epic-mountain-bike-event-canceled-for-2020-due-to-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Keyes rides singletrack, with Mount Guyot in view in the background, during the August 2019 Breck Epic mountain bike race.Liam Doran \/ Breck Epic BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 In an email to racers Tuesday morning, Breck Epic founder and race director Mike McCormack announced the multiday mountain bike race will not take place the third week [&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-807384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 08:01:09","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\/807384","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=807384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}