Over the Hump 2022 Finale

I don’t typically take this long to close out the season…but it’s given me some time to reflect, and for that I’m thankful. Thank you for joining our tribe and family this summer at the 13th season of Over the Hump. Thank you to Mazda for continuing the generous support, as presenting sponsor of the Orange County Bike-topia we call Over the Hump. To bet on any racing event, you can select sites such as w88.com.

Congratulations to all  participants for their hard work, dedication and fun having that sums up Over the Hump. Thank you for sharing your family and making us part of yours this summer.

Sponsors, friends, and celebrations marked the finale Tuesday June 21.  In a nutshell, summer is just getting started and many of us have already lived our highlights at Over the Hump.

Each week starts with a crew of diligent humans who make Over the Hump’s gears turn. Pointed by Race manager, Adam Torres.

We had tons of epic engagement from sponsors and exhibitors this year year. And a great bunch of mojo as we celebrated the podium finishers.

Rausch PT weekly delivered 3 Rausch RX Massages to racers in multiple classes…8 weeks that’s 24 massage bennies for racers…not to mention Rausch coming out  to the finale and 2 other races with $1,000 cash of race Primes (an award for winning) for get this, Beginners and Intermediates. That’s right they tapped into the sweet spot of OTH…the up and comers, newbies and inexperienced. The people we consider VIPS and have built this race for.

Mazda was on-hand with ambassador Spencer Rathkamp and 2 new all-adventure capable CX-50 which caught everyone’s eye. Car envy is real, just look!

Bike911.com Threw down for a STACYC that went home with Kate Wallace.

Intense was back with their podium payback, And one of the biggest winners of the year was Oscar Rodriguez Aguila taking home the 951 at the final night raffle.

Sarah Neary, Intense’ Activation Manager and Larry Longo, OTH Emcee, present Oscar his new 951!

Phil Roberts, Capstone Partners Financial Planner, raised the game by raffling off a RockShox SID fork

Phil Roberts, Right, presents ID Ultimate 120 to Berny Santana

So many other giveaways, prizes, raffles, and podium finishes made for an epic end to our 2nd full summer season back.

Leigh Donovan, superstar mountain biker, but even brighter smile model,  brought out SRAMNation.com $50 all season long for 5 racers each week, plus equipping each 1st place podium placer with a SRAM Sweatshirt and a bunch of other raffles along the way.

New to OTH Rig’d Supply  Showed off their wares and supported the series huge this summer as a Gold Sponsor.  (Well, not new to OTH, Jason Denny and Luke Wronski met and raced at OTH prior to founding Rig’d Supply.

4 lucky winners took home Jason and Luke’s latest Rig’d Release the Ramble Rack, an $800 value. And next month Rig’d Supply comes out with the multi-bike option.

So many fun memories, graduates and epic stories came from Over the Hump 2022 Summer.

Congratulations to all our podium finishers, along with the Large and Small Team champions.

As we tuck in for the rest of summer, we’re looking forward to seeing you on the trail, and back here for Over the Hump Winter Series starting January 7.

Thanks for being a part of our summer 8 race season, presented by Mazda.

We’ll see you on the trail!

Bonus value for winter. Buy 2 race the 3rd free, now through July 4…plus you’ll get a free winter event T-shirt.