Sunday, June 20, 2010

Lumbo Race Report

Wow, great day, great course. I liked the three lap format better than four. More of an 'out there' kinda feeling. And a foray into doing self-support at a commercial event.

Started with the customary 200oz, too much food and waaay too hard. :) It was a blast keeping speed through the rolling sections and chatting with people but alarms were going off all over. All my water blown out by 50 miles in, I took a 10 minute break to eat some solid chow, suck down 75% of my soda and as much water as I could. But at that point the damage was done. Resorted to 'forward movement' mode the rest of the ride.

Well, this is still a learning process. What's up next? Breck might make a nice long weekend road trip. But fully supported.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

GLA '10

Another adventure trip out to the dry and hot. Verbiage here, pics below.

All my junk. Notice not much Blokage, but still started with slightly too much food. The rain pants and jacket stayed behind too. Not pictured are the pizza, burritos and sodas.



















Rolling I-70 out to Loma with Scotty. He helped me coordinate logistics and came along to ride the prologue and Mary's with me before bailing back to Fruita.



















The orb looms somewhere around the Fish Ford section.



















It's gonna be a hot one. Cresting the ridge of the McGraw Bottom section.



















Shadin' it out somewhere on the shandies.



















Miles and miles of shadeless rocky trails.



















Nothing but clear blue and probably near 100 degrees.