Notable segments of the course are listed below. You can click on the link and it will take you right to that point on the course.
This is video footage from the 2023 Iceman Cometh Challenge course. The data from my Garmin registered: Distance (28.74 mi), Riding Time (2:39:19), Elevation Gain (1,909 ft). It was a great day for the race as the weather really worked out for us in the mid-40's.
This was my eighth year doing the race, 7th if you don't include the 2020 Covid year...although a buddy and I still did it that day and that was truly a Niceman with temps in the low 60's and sunny. I got passed a lot this year. My fastest years were 2018 and 2019 and the past few years my biking has taken a backseat to my kids activities and interests, which I have no problem doing, but it's a bit tough to swallow on race day. Regardless, it's one of my favorite events and days of the year and the atmosphere of the race is unbelievable.
Notable segments of the course are listed below:
00:04:37 Island Lake Rd.
00:04:40 Enter two track
00:07:56 Enter singletrack
00:12:18 Singletrack re-route
00:17:06 Smith Lake Rd.
00:20:39 Newly logged area
00:27:55 Tornado Alley singletrack re-route
00:33:42 Dockery
00:35:47 Enter singletrack
00:37:50 Climb before Wattle Bottle Hill (21%)
00:40:00 Water Bottle Hill Bypass
00:50:20 Make it Stick
00:52:21 *NEW SINGLETRACK*
00:55:18 Uncle Tom's Cabin
01:00:38 Guernsey Lake Rd. Singletrack
01:01:23 Tighty Whitey
01:04:32 Sand Lakes Rd.
01:08:27 Sand Lakes climb (.25 miles maxing out at 20%)
01:11:44 Turn towards power lines
01:15:50 Broomhead
01:16:50 Sand bypass
01:18:35 Time Sucker Singletrack
01:21:48 Fire road
01:26:10 Hot Sister
01:32:21 Williamsburg (20%)
01:40:19 The Rock/Vasa 25k
01:47:32 Wall Bypass (right)
01:50:50 Spotted
01:52:45 Boonenberg climb (.25 miles maxing out at 15%)
01:15:15 Spotted again
02:01:45 Anita's Hill (39%)
02:10:52 NMMBA cheering section
02:16:00 Vasa CC climb (21%)
02:19:37 Lands End Road
02:21:30 Madeline's Trail (17%)
02:23:30 Mt. Gary (20%)
02:26:15 Vasa 25k
02:29:04 Climb up to Four Corners (17%)
02:30:29 Four Corners singletrack
02:30:56 Woodchip Hill (23%)
02:31:50 Four Corners
02:32:06 Turn towards Timber Ridge
02:34:50 Back out to singletrack
02:36:00 Icebreaker (21%)
02:37:20 WATCH OUT
02:38:15 Bridge
02:39:02 Sandy last lipper