Monday, March 17, 2008

Training Camp Update!

Well, I've got some news, not sure if its good or bad, but here goes. After an interesting drive into the mtns on early Sat morning with Juth and Boni following, the trailer is in Grand Junction, and ready for the kegs to be cracked for training camp. The roads were a little slick, but no issues. We finally rolled into GJ around noonish, grabed some lunch at Pudge's house, and off to the trails we went. We headed to Loma to ride the Koko loops, becuase we knew they were in good conditon and rideable. We were not dissapointed, we rode Mary's, Rustler, Horsethiefs, Steves, Lyons, and all the way back on Mary's. 30miles, 3000+ ft, and a little over 3 hrs of ride time. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!! Trails were prime, and there wasn;t a whole lot of people. So for TC, Loma is a definate. Sunday morning we got up and made some breakfast and chilled until the mercury climbed above 30deg. Then we headed out on the Reeder Mesa road ride.
I had to jet out early, but I logged just over 2 hrs and 40 miles, and I didn;t see 1/2 of what was possible. Definately going to have to be done with the team one day. Now for the bad news. The crew headed out to Rabbit Valley last night to get another little ride in, and found it to be VERY muddy on the TT course. A lot of it wasn;t rideable still. 18rd is still muddy as well, but s hould be good by this weekend if we don;t get anymore moisture. We are still planning on camping at 18rd, stay tuned for updates as the week progresses. Suppose to be in the 50's and sun all week in GJ, so we'll definately get some good miles in. Any questions, email me, otherwise we will see everyone on Thurs or Fri. Drive Safe.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

if 18rd is too muddy....how about the monument as a camping alternative? the road riding from there is good, but we would have to drive to any mnt rides.