Registration Open Date
October 11, 2025Race Date and Time
September 20, 2025 7:30 amOfficial Point of Contact
Todd PoquetteEvent Limits
The total participant limit is: 666 combined limit
This race sells out very quickly
Race Fee Information
100 Mile is $100
50 Mile is $80
Payout Information
Awards: Belt buckles and $1.00 bills
Payout: $1.00 for each of Top 3 Men and Women 100 & 50-Mile racers.
Venue Atmosphere
The Marji Gesick 50-Mile race starts from the Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee Township and essentially follows the last “half” of the 100-Mile course. After a short rollout from the Museum 50-Mile racers will have an opportunity to position themselves on the flat and fast Iron Ore Heritage Trail. Enjoy it while you can because once you get into the single track in Negaunee… you won’t see anything flat again until you’re looking down Main Street in Ishpeming as head to the finish line. The race course can be characterized as hand-built, unforgiving, rocky and punchy. You’ll work as much on the downhills as you do on the uphills. Range Area Mountain Bike Association has been building the west-end trails for over 30-years… and they can’t wait to show them off.
Course Map
It begins at the NTN Forestville Pole Barn and ends in Downtown Ishpeming. This IS NOT a loop race.
100 miles and 13,000 vertical feet armored with rocks, roots, drops, jump lines, flow trails, grueling climbs, dangerous technical descents and a final fifteen miles designed to push riders to their mental and physical limits.
It was like a ninja-warrior course for bikes.– Marji Gesick 100 participant, 2016
100 Miles or 50 Miles consisting of primarily singletrack, two-track and dirt roads. Point-to-point. Rocks. Roots. Climbs. Descents. Jump lines. Flow trails. Machine-built trails. Hand-built trails. You’ll experience everything in one epic ride.
