Daylight to Dark in the Dirt: The Santos Twelve Hours Mountain Bike Endurance Race

A rider begins a tricky descent a few hours into the 2014 Santos Twelve Hours mountain bike race in Florida's Ocala National Forest, Feb. 154, 2014. Chris Jasurek/Epoch Times

OCALA. Fla.—It’s a warm, sunny Saturday morning in February in at the Santos trailhead in the Ocala National Forest in central Florida. What better thing to do than to go for a bike ride?

For some folks, that better thing would be to go for a mountain bike ride. And for a very special few hundred, the answer was, to race a mountain biker around a challenging 8.9 mile track—for twelve hours.

The race starts with riders running to their parked bikes. Chris Jasurek/Epoch Times