Are you ready for an Epic Battle with Virgin Active? As a headline sponsor and the official health club partner to the Absa Cape Epic, Virgin Active are giving away an entry to the 2018 event.
Well, not just giving it away. Participants will have to complete a series of challenges between 19 January and 22 February 2017 in order to qualify for the draw.
Three lucky winners, and their chosen riding buddy, will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Cape Town to take part in the Epic Battle as a team at the 2017 Absa Cape Epic grand finale. The toughest team on the finish line will win an entry into the 2018 Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race.
CHALLENGES
- Go for Speed – Do 1 ride for at least 1 hour with an average speed of 23 km/h
19 Jan – 25 Jan 2017 - Go for One Hundred (once-off distance) – Do a 100km ride
26 Jan – 1 Feb 2017 - Go for Total Elevation (once-off elevation) – Do at least 1 Ride with an elevation exceeding 1,000m
2 Feb – 8 Feb 2017 - Go for Total Distance (Weekly total distance) – Do at least 300 km for the week
9 Feb – 15 Feb 2017 - Go for Altitude (Weekly total elevation) – Total elevation for the week of at least 3500m
16 Feb – 22 Feb 2017 - Go There – if you haven’t already, become a Virgin Active Member (virginactive.co.za) and sign up on myvirginactive.co.za & connect your tracking device.
16 Feb – 22 Feb 2017
HOW TO ENTER
STEP 1 – Create a Profile on the Virgin Active Epic Battle Website linking your Strava account to track your rides
STEP 2 – Choose your riding buddy
STEP 3 – Complete all 6 challenges over 5 weeks to get an entry into the draw to win an all-expenses paid trip to Cape Town to take part in an Epic Battle on indoor cycling bikes. Three lucky draw members and their selected riding buddy will compete against one another at the Absa Cape Epic 2017 Grand Finale.
STEP 4 – To the victor go some serious spoils. The toughest team will be crowned Champions of the Virgin Active Epic Battle and win an entry into the 2018 Absa Cape Epic.
Find out more and enter at virginactiveepicbattle.co.za
A slightly more awkward question - did search and found nada...
There are a few MTB specific competitions like this one, and looking at the leader board in this specific competition, the challenges favour roadies? So technically speaking, roadies klap the required mileage and climbing with ease - however as noted elsewhere, MTB-only riders struggle - to qualify in a MTB competition...
The 'final' challenge on an indoor trainer again doesn't test technical MTBing? So you end up with the wrong audience...
And yes - I do know some roadies ride MTBs.
Just putting it out there for a Sunday banter.