Thanks to the generosity of a visitor from another club, we have been able to create a GPS mapped trail profile for the Belmont 40km Endurance course of January 2006. This was a day of high winds and heavy fog on the higher and more exposed reaches of the ride, and we're lucky to have a map at all.

Unlike CTR, Endurance is a race, with competitors riding "against the clock". The only other consideration is that the horse must finish the event sound with a recovery heart rate under a specified threshold.

More information about the Belmont Park venue can be found on this page.

The Belmont Endurance trail adds an extra loop to extend the basic CTR trail. The terrain is similar to the CTR trail, but the extra loop results in additional hill climbs, so this is not an easy course.

Belmont Regional Park 40k Endurance trail profile

For CTR riders, only the first two of the 3 loops were included, and the trail was very similar to the previous year's with the following differences.

1. The start / finish line was located in the first picnic area closest to the park entrance, rather than the second.
2. The second loop was traversed in the opposite direction (counter-clockwise rather than clockwise)
3. The return from the second loop to the first followed the outward trail to a branch instead, of taking the steep cross-country short-cut that caused some riders difficulty the previous season.

Belmont 40 km Endurance trail map (green arrows out, red arrows home)