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The descents through the Desert de les Palmes mix bare rock with rolling stones. A front wheel slides, you land on the shoulder, and the week ends in a Castellón clinic with surgery. Medical costs are covered up to €150,000, hospital stay included.
Many stage sections climb far from any driveable track, and rescuers finish the last stretch on foot. Assistance arranges evacuation and repatriation at actual cost, from the trail to your own front door, wherever in the world you happen to live.
The Mediterranean Epic is timed, ranked and raced with a number plate. Plenty of policies quietly drop official competition. The Competition option keeps your four stages here insured, along with every other race you pin a number on this season.
The fast tracks dropping back towards the coast are ridden at road speeds, and a head or spine injury there can leave permanent damage. The permanent disability capital reaches €200,000, money that pays for adapting a home or changing work.
February means winter legs and trails still damp at dawn. Riders arrive from months on an indoor trainer and meet rock they have never had time to read. Across four stages the tiredness stacks up, braking gets later and later, and most crashes land on the final morning.
One week above the Mediterranean is not your whole year. There are other marathons ahead, long sierra days, cold rides at home in January. Rather than a policy that expires on Sunday, look at our mountain bike insurance, which covers training and racing alike, in Spain and anywhere else you ride.
A marathon mountain bike stage race on the Costa del Azahar, the Mediterranean Epic brings around 800 riders together each February for four days of dry singletrack, steep climbs and stony descents looking out over the sea.
Your race runs over consecutive days with the same riders every morning. We insure all of them through a single policy that covers every stage. Medical assistance answers day and night while the race is on, repatriation is included, and it works anywhere in the world. We can also partner your event.
Yes. Cover applies to every timed stage and to the recon loops you ride around Oropesa beforehand, as long as your policy is active on those dates.
Yes. Cover does not depend on where you live. Medical costs run up in Spain are taken care of, and repatriation brings you back to your home address rather than to the nearest airport.
No. This is individual accident insurance, not a cancellation policy. It pays for the consequences of bodily injury, not for a race number, flights or a hotel you decide not to use.
It insures official competition, which is exactly what four timed and ranked stages are. It also carries through the rest of your season, so other marathons and local races stay covered too.
It depends on how long you want the cover to run, your age and the options you add, Competition among them. The online quote gives you a figure in a couple of minutes.
