Wilmington Whiteface Road Race- New York State Championships

The race starts (under neutral condition) at the Wilmington Town Park Youth Center, goes right for 100 yards on Springfield Road, left on NYS Route 86 for 1/2 mile, and right on Bonnie View Road, where racing begins at the top of the first short rise.

Bonnie View Road is mostly a very slight climb for its six-mile length. There is one main downhill section of a few hundred yards and then a moderately steep uphill pitch just after, maybe 200 yards long. Then flat for about a mile to Silver Lake Road. After the left turn onto Silver Lake Road there are two or three big long rollers I would call them. One is about 3/4 mile long on the uphill, another maybe 1/2 mile, neither one too steep. After the right turn onto Turnpike Road, the terrain is mostly slightly downhill and fast (watch sharp downhill left-hand curve here: will be marshalled and flagged!) for about 3 miles with the exception of a couple of short humps until Guide Board Road, where there is a long false flat followed by a couple long rollers, a fast descent of maybe half a mile, over a slight roller, and then flat back to Silver Lake Road. Very quickly one meets the main climb of the loop, which is one mile, through the feed zone and almost
back to the start of the loop at Bonnie View Road. The climb is steepest at the bottom and gradually lessens in pitch,
but it’s hard to really tell it is backing off when the pace is being pushed.

One, two, three, or four times around that depending on category. Then left onto Bonnie View again, mostly slightly downhill in this direction, with the one downhill from the way out turned into a wicked kicker of a climb. Thankfully it is short. Then more fast, ever so slight downhill back to Wilmington, where you turn right onto the Whiteface Memorial Highway/Rt. 431 and fight to the finish 1.6 miles above. This is a steady 8 percent grade almost all the way, though I have been told that it steepens to around 11 percent right around the Santa’s Workshop entrance, which is where our finish is.

YOU HAVE JUST CONQUERED THE WILMINGTON-WHITEFACE ROAD RACE!