So I race the first race in the Winter Park Mountain Bike series yesterday. It was a 5.3 mile, 2050 vertical feet mass start hill climb. I got off to a good start but then reality set in as my legs felt like garbage, and I could really feel the altitude difference. I slugged it out pretty good, but I just didn’t have the power in my legs. I hadn’t ridden in a week since I was in San Francisco last week and camping last weekend into Monday. I was no where near the podium, but the 1st place Sport racer in my class would have place 2nd (out of 30) in the Expert class. Congratulations Geoff Williamson! You win the sand bagger of the day award. [major retraction: I initially said Jared Berg won the sport class, but he in fact won the Expert class. Damn it, two days into this blog, and I'm already wrapped up in scandal. Sorry Jared. Geoff's resume isn't quite as impressive as Jared's, and in fact he's a runner... that explains a lot. It's too bad though, it makes for a much worse story! Also, it hurts to think Geoff probably could have ran the climb faster than I road it.]
The next race in the series is Saturday which is a normal cross county circuit race, when I should fare much better. After the race, I sampled some of the single track coming down from the top of Mary Jane. Most of the stuff up top was still covered in snow so it wasn’t until half way down that the trails were rideable. What I found was sweet flowing, twisty, rocky, rooty single track…. can’t wait until next week.
Big props to Bill who dominated the Clydesdale (200lb+) class yesterday. The 2nd and 3rd place Clydesdales looked Bill up and down a couple of times eying up his weight. The third place guy could have doubled for the jolly green giant. He was HUGE… still taller than Bill when he was propped up on the podium.
I was checking out a new feature from Google Maps called Street view. It’s pretty incredible. There ‘s a car that drives up and down city streets capturing still shots through a camera on top of a car that has 11 cameras. The result is that you can see certain places on a Google map from a street perspective. Check out the camera rig.
Lastly here’s a picture from our camping trip to Buffalo Creek….
