Sovereign Trail

This is a pretty cool trail, but don't expect Brandogger to agree with me!.  Moderate climbing with some fun descents.  Just as we made it back to the FJ it started to hail on us.  One nice thing about the weather in Moab, we just had to go a few miles up the road to the next trail and it was completely dry:)

Fins and Things

This was a blast.  It made me wish I would have brought my FJ out too.  Who knew a stock vehicle could do all this and cruise on the highway at 80 MPH.  What a fantasic vehicle!

Klondike Bars and Baby Steps go together?

I have a ton of things to report from our Moab trip.  As you can imagine, with 6 guys from 2 states all in one condo for a week, I have a lot to talk about.  The trip up was long, but well worth it.  I will have a short video of some of the cool scenery later this week.  I want to concentrate on some of the riding we did. 

I am not posting in the order we rode the trails, but here is the first of the completed videos.

Klondike Bluffs was a climb up on slick rock.  This provided for some fun on Baby Steps on the way down.

Why I Mountain Bike

I went to Rock Bridge today to play around a little with some different camera angles.  I am wanting to capture some entertaining video when we go to Moab/Fruita next weekend.  I think there are several perspectives I can work with.

Rhett's Run Race Course

Remember they have made some changes this past year.  The signage is really good, so just follow them and you should be golden.  The only difference is in the past they alter the course to bring you up by the pavilion by the skateboard park and then head you back into the woods.

Race Course

Bone Bender Photos

I found these photos from the Bone Bender webpage.

Bone Bender - 2011

What a fun race and great trail.  Being pretty much a couch potatoe over the last 5 months due to injury and only about 4 weeks to train for this event, I did not have any expectations but to get out and push myself a little.  I made the crucial error of not jumping out in front at the beginning, but honestly I was just hoping to stay out of people's way.  For the first 23 minutes it was a walk-a-thon as we headed into the trail. 

I finally managed to get around horads of people and find some guys that were more my speed to ride with.  I felt pretty good lap 1 and kept picking people off on the technical climbs.  By the end of lap 2, my legs were cramping and I was popping endurolytes by the handful.  I drank about 100oz of water, but I guess I need more sodium.  I will have to dial that in.  By the middle of the 3rd lap I was just telling myself to keep moving forward.  I was getting lapped by the leaders, but I was not getting passed by anyone else, so that felt good.

I ended up finishing 25 out of 52 riders RESULTS.  That is encouraging and will make me train harder.  A better start and a bit more fitness, I could easily improve.

Here is a video of some of the more "flowy" sections and a couple of the technical climbs.