Unofficial Trail Authority · OP-TSM-01 · Revised 7 November 2026 · https://trailauthority.org/operations/trans-san-marcos/ · Uncontrolled copy when printed. The Unofficial Trail Authority is an independent fictional organization. It is not a government agency or land-management authority.
OP-TSM-01 · Announced
Operation: Trans San Marcos
| Classification | Trail Speed Assessment |
|---|---|
| Status | Announced. This is the principal operation of the season. |
| Date | To be fixed in the next revision. The operation itself is no longer hypothetical. |
| Start window | To be designated with the date. |
| Region | San Marcos |
| Place | Assembly point not yet designated. This page is not yet a meeting point. |
| Route length | Long. The figure will be posted with the assembly point. The assessment is meant to take the day. |
| Elevation | To be posted with the route figure. |
| Difficulty | A proper trail speed assessment. Features are ridden as the builders left them. The course is not tidied for the occasion. |
| Timing | Individual speed is recorded and compared. The comparison is the point of the day. |
| What it is called | A trail speed assessment. The office does not use the ordinary word for a day of riding as fast as one can. |
| Rankings | Findings afterward, in nonbinding categories. Going fast does not require an apology. |
| Entry cost | None collected on this site. |
| Capacity | Not set. |
| Registration | The participation form prepares a request. It does not yet reserve a place. |
| Cancellation and refund | If no assembly point is published here, that week's assessment is not held. No fee is charged, so no refund arises. |
| Required equipment | A bicycle you intend to ride with some ambition, and whatever you need to be out for the length of a day. Friends, if they want to come. |
| Aid | To be stated when the route is fixed. |
| Cutoff | To be stated with the route. A cutoff keeps the day finite for the people closing it. |
| Emergency plan | Local emergency services. This page is not monitored. |
| Land access | Not granted by this announcement. The operation does not open a corridor by naming a region. |
| Permits | None are issued by the Authority. |
| Waiver and conduct | Required before any real start. See the participation form and the event terms. |
Submit participation form Safety requirements
Trans San Marcos is the large operation. Its purpose is a long day of riding at speed, with the people who chose to be there, on trails left as their builders made them. Individual intervals will be kept. The keeping is not a side effect. It is the reason to set the day aside.
The office does not call this a race. It calls it a trail speed assessment. The distinction is administrative. On the trail, people will try to go fast, will care about the result, and will be correct to care. Training before the date, once a date exists, is the ordinary way to arrive ready. Bulletin SV-11 already says that practice counts.
A few limits belong in the announcement, because the day is large enough to spoil the things it depends on.
- Features on the way are not to be rebuilt, softened, or enlarged in the week before, either to make the assessment easier or to make it more dramatic. Directive EC-14 applies to a famous day exactly as it applies to a Tuesday.
- Undesignated approaches are not to be posted in the excitement. Notice QD-08 is not suspended for a good story.
- The pace is offered to the people who came with you. It is not assigned to them. A friend who wants a different speed still had a complete day.
No assembly point, route figure, or fee is attached to this revision. Do not travel on the strength of the name alone. When the place and the date are fixed, they will be written into the table above. Until then, the correct preparation is the ordinary one: ride with your friends, get faster at the features you already know, and leave those features as you found them.
The participation form prints a request and stops. It does not reserve a start and does not take payment. If a later revision uses an outside registration service, the fee and that service's own terms will be shown before anyone is asked to pay.