Today marks the start of the BC Bike Race — a seven day mountain biking journey that starts in Shawnigan Lake and ends in Whistler. Over 225 teams of two will travel over 580km filled with copious amounts of epic BC single-track.

Day 1 (Shawnigan Lake), Day 3 (Cumberland) , Day 5 (Sechelt), and Day 6 (Squamish) all feature sections of trail that have been used in past and current MOMAR’s.

Last year, I was the Course Designer for Day 1 & 2 but due to my new job with the City of Surrey, I had to resign my position. The BCBR was an amazing event to be a part of and I’ll miss being there this year. Good luck to all the teams participating and to the crew managing the show.

Team Helly Hansen / MOMAR are there on the start line despite having bike and injury issues in the days since the Test of Metal. I’m sure they will race strong and make us proud.

Keep checking back on this blog as I’ll be trying my best to post daily reports from Gary and Todd’s journey.