The 2007 XTERRA American Tour Southeast Championship attracted some of the world’s premier off-road triathletes to Oak Mountain State Park for a two-day event with participants coming from six different countries and 20 different states.

THE COURSE:  Thanks in large part to BUMP - the Birmingham Urban Mountain Pedalers, the mountain biking trails at Oak Mountain State Park provided world-class fun for locals and visiting riders for years.  In 2007, for the second year in a row, athletes converged to the heart of the South in Shelby County. XTERRA athletes from around the world got the chance to experience these legendary paths for themselves.  The largest park in the Alabama, Oak Mountain has 52 miles of trails spread among 9,900 lushly forested acres that includes rolling hills, stream crossings and the technical, pine-studded ridges of Double Oak Mountain. The race starts with a 1.5k swim in Double Oak Lake, a long narrow lake with wide sandy beaches.  The bike course primarily on hard-packed singletrack,  consists of one large loop full of rollers, stream crossings, wooden bridges and a long but gradual climb to the 1,150-foot high point, Johnson Mountain - named after former XTERRA competitor and tireless local trail volunteer Bill Johnson.  It's nearly 20 miles worth of rooty and rocky sections… "a mountain bikers course".  The 10k run meanders back into the woods on a separate set of singletrack routes and includes some super steep ups-and-downs before returning to the spectator-friendly start/finish area down by the lake. 

Visit the XTERRA Web Site to learn more.