DETAILS

• 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Mandatory QSR Rider Meeting at a new location - the Zenergy Health Club and Spa. This will also be streamed LIVE on Instagram in case you're not able to make it in person.
• 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM: Packet Pickup, also at Zenergy.

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All QSR and individual stage athletes are asked to please attend our mandatory rider meeting where we cover important race details in advance of kicking off the weekend with Stage 1: Harriman Trail. A virtual option exists for those who are not able to attend in person, and a recorded version will also be available for review prior to Stage 1.

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Do not ride on Highway 75 to or from Baker Creek.

This is a condition of our permit. If you are caught riding your bike along the highway to or from Baker Creek, you will be disqualified from competition. The speed of traffic and the lack of a shoulder makes it unsafe to do so for our event. It may be counterintuitive, but as a condition of our special event permit, we must enforce this.

DETAILS

• 7:45 AM - 8:45 AM - PACKET PICKUP: QSR Packet Pickup @ Baker Creek - Mandatory if you did not get your packet on Tuesday at the Limelight Hotel.

• 9:00 AM - QSR STAGE 1 RACE START:  Stage 1 begins at Baker Creek. We all start together!

• ,5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - AWARDS CEREMONY: QDay 1 Awards, Brats & Bevies at Rotary Park.
• 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - BE GOOD FILM SCREENING: Don't forget to bring your blankie, a pillow, and a comfortable chair.
  
  • TBA
  • More to be announced

DETAILS

• 7:30 - 8:30 AM Packet pickup for Dollarhide Stage only
• 8:30 AM - QSR Stage 2 begins, departing from Limelight Hotel with an approximately 20-mile neutral rollout.
• The top ten athletes in each category will start in reverse order of placement from Stage 1 at 30-second intervals. Everyone else can line up and start when they wish at 15-second intervals.
• There is a 4.5-mile uphill individual time trial, with timing finish at the summit, followed by a neutral ride down the hill and back to town.
• Riders must complete the neutral sections on the bike; no rides to or from the hill climb are permitted.
• Total mileage is 50 miles, but only 4.5 of those miles are timed.

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Be Good™ Foundation Party

• 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Be Good™ Foundation Party - Forest Service Park across from Limelight Hotel

• Tickets are required. Purchase yours here!

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Welcome Party & Expo at Champions Meadow in Sun Valley

• 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM - Be Good no-drop ride (departing from Champions Meadow); meet at 8:30 AM, ride begins at 9:00 AM.
• 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM - RPI Welcome Party & Expo, Packet Pick-up
• 3:15 PM - Rider Meeting - Dollarhide Awards

• 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Be Good $5 Happy Hour

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Fully Baked, Baked Potato, French Fry, and Tater Tot

All festivities are located in Champions Meadow in Sun Valley.

• 6:15 AM -8:30 AM - Bag drop open
  Saturday will have a morning bag drop station for you to leave all your post-ride gear. Your bag must have your rider number on the bag before dropping it off. You can have your change of clothes, recovery drinks, car keys, and any other items you will need to relax and enjoy the after-the-race party without having to go back to your car or condo. After your race, drop your bike at the valet, grab your bag, hit up a changing tent, and enjoy everything you just accomplished with a cold drink on us!
• 6:00 AM-7:00 AM - Packet pickup

• Ride Briefings take place shortly before the start of each course's published start time below, so please make sure to be lined up and ready to go with at least 15 minutes to start!
• 7:30 AM - Fully Loaded start
• 7:30 AM (also) - Baked Potato start
• 8:00 AM - French Fry start
• 8:30 AM - Tater Tot start
• 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Rebecca's Private Idaho Festival Day & Expo at Champions Meadow! We cap off the event with a big party, complete with live music, food, awards, vendors, and games. We’re here to celebrate you and a job well done!
• 3:30 PM (approximately)- ​Awards ceremony*
  * This time is subject to be pushed to a later time based on when riders make it back to the festival, but it will not take place earlier than this posted time.

Saturday Course Cut-Off Times  

If you do not reach mile 22 by 9:45 AM on the Baked or Fully Baked Potato routes, you will be redirected on to the French Fry route. In order to make this cut, you will need to maintain a 10 MPH average speed. We estimate that the slowest 10% of the field will not make this time cut. But it is a very important one because the challenge ahead means your average speed will drop so low that you will be far off the back of our aid station support windows on course if you're not able to maintain at least this average speed within the first 22 miles of such a long day

If you do not reach mile 60 on the Fully Baked Potato route, you will be redirected on to the Baked Potato route. This redirection after 1:00 PM eliminates the "Copper Basin Loop" which is about 18 miles long, and 1,000' of climbing. This second time cut will impact around 8% of the remaining riders attempting the Fully Baked Potato course, but it is necessary in order to keep you within our on-course support window.

If you do not reach mile 82 or 97 on the Baked or Fully Baked routes by 3:00 PM, you will not be permitted to complete the "El Diablito" section of those courses, eliminating 5.5 miles and just over 600' of rugged elevation gain. It will keep you within our on-course support window. This should impact as much as 15% of our remaining Fully Baked Potato participants, but maybe only a couple of our Baked Potato participants. The Fully Baked Potato route is most impacted by this because of the higher average speed required in order to make the time cut.

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Be a Gravel SHARK

The ethos of the SHARK rules carry forward with RPI, and will always in perpetuity. So, get familiar with them. These "rules" were inspired by my young friend Anna, who imparted her 8-year-old wisdom to our previously over-thought approach to setting rules around our event. SHARK is an acronym. This is what it means, and what we will abide by:

S: Safe. We race on open roads and sometimes in big groups. #1…be safe and live to ride another day. This includes staying in your lane, obeying rules of the road, having your ears and eyes open, and maybe even slowing down if a cow happens to wander across the race course. It happens.

H: Honest. If you have to ask yourself, “Is this ok?”, then you already know the answer. Course cutting, taking unapproved aid on course, doping, or any other form of cheating isn’t part of RPI.

A: Accountable. Your actions are a reflection of you and your community of cyclists. Own your behavior and conduct yourself as an honored guest, because you are. We all are.

R: Responsible. Take responsibility for yourself…bring a tool, tube, water, food, and a map. Courses are remote and rugged. Be responsible in your treatment of the land and the people.

K: Kind. We are all part of the same bike riding family. Let’s treat each other, the volunteers, the staff, the residents, everyone, the same way we want to be treated. Watch out for each other and support each other, and respect all experiences; acknowledging that we aren’t all the same.

Breaking any of these hard rules will lead to your disqualification.

Do not ride your bike on highway 75.

As previously stated, do not ride your bike to or from stage 1 of Rebecca's Private Idaho.

No personal on-course support is allowed.

During the course of any of our races, you may not have any personal on-course support. This means that you must be self sufficient. No personal bottle hand-ups, no stashing or hiding water bottles anywhere on course, etc. Bottom line is that if you find yourself wanting to gain an advantage over your competitors by getting creative with on-course support... don't.

You must use the same bike for each stage of QSR.

If you are competing in the Queen Stage Race, you must use the same frame. You can change wheels, tires, gearing, and essentially anything besides the frame of the bike.

Headphones are not allowed.

Headphones are no longer allowed at any time during Rebecca's Private Idaho. Previously we only discouraged them from being used on the final day of racing, and disallowed them on the first two stages. Because of how much is going on during the race on Saturday, we must enforce a no-headphone policy. If you are identified to be racing with headphones, you will be disqualified. It takes some of your attention and focus, and may not be aware of something happening around you in a pack scenario that could ultimately lead to a crash, and it's not worth the risk to you, the other competitors around you or to us as organizers. The sound of the gravel beneath you, and the wind at your back is music enough :-)

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Air Quality Policy

Rebecca's Private Idaho takes place during a time of year that is typically dry in the mountains, prone to wind, nearby and sometimes impactful wildfires. Air quality is usually the biggest concern as it relates to the race, and occasionally fire itself. Neither of them we can control, but we do use this air quality guide as our standard, which details the risks of pollution levels for both healthy and sensitive individuals. This helps us make good decisions when conditions are such that it is simply unsafe to ride one or more stages of RPI.

It's not always as simple as just looking outside or monitoring the conditions right here in town. Sometimes the conditions in the mountains are better, and sometimes they're not. We send our staff out to report back, and we pay attention to what the forecast says. These variables play a part in our decision whether or not to postpone or cancel any part of the event. But rest assured, we never try to "thread the needle" if the risk is too high, as your safety, the safety of our volunteers, and staff is our top priority. Always.

In the event that we have to cancel or postpone one or more stages, we are not able to issue refunds. But we try very hard to make up for it in ways that are fair to our participants when this does happen, which is seldom. But it has in the past, we we've prided ourselves on handling such adverse situations.

Harriman, Dollarhide, Fully Loaded, Baked Potato, French Fry, Tater Tot

Awards are as follows: