Monkey Fest @ Kingdom, HF# 9 & tired

Monkey Fest was awesome, 20 plus riders, stayed at a cool ass lodge, lots of riding on the best trails, great beer, great food & great people - cant get much better. oh, Sidewinder trail- what a freaking blast.






HF race #9, I didnt have much umph - I need a few days off the bike. Tired & worn out.

HF#8 & Kingdom

This was my recovery ride form Pats Peak..course was a road climb for a mile, them mostly down on St, then the road back to the climb, damn water bottle fell off, picked up on the 2nd lap....I felt alright. Selwitz took me on the climb, if that boy ever got stong on the tech & DH's..watch out!

Leaving Friday early for 3 days at the KINGDOM trails! woot!!

12 hours of Pats Peak

6/12/24 hours of Pats Peak

What a great venue! 2 lodges (w/AC, a pub and a deck). Plenty of camping, toliets, bike washes, showers, and potable water.

The course: 4.7 miles, 870 feet of climbing, mix of singletrrack, ski slope crossings, and couple short sections of fire roads. Way over average ran equaled some muddy sections, but the new ST downhill section was virtually mud free. It was one of the sweetest, flowiest, smooth, long sections of downhills I ever had the pleasure of riding!!

The Folks at Pats Peak and S&W sports try super hard to put on a great, fun & challanging event and want feedback from us racers to make it bigger & better every year. This year they even had a band playing on the deck and a DH & kids race

I signed up for the 12 hour 2 person male cat. w/my buddy Wiley.
A friend and former teammate (Splat) was also in the same catagory.
Our plan was to do doubles. Wiley went 1st & threw down a fast lap and was the 1st back to the transition tent, and no one caught him on his 2nd lap. My turn to do two laps and no one caught me either. Actually we were doing really well for 10 laps (no one passed either of us).
So we had the overall lead of all 3 races/all divisions, and that was damn cool.

BUT on lap 11 things went down hill fast being we both started bonking. Well whats more than bonking? My last lap was torture, it took me forever to complete, I got sick 3 or 4 times.....and I even went to the EMT's after. Wiley was also totally bonked but still got in 2 more (slow) laps.
He stopped at our pit to wait to cross the finish being neither us had any interest in doing another lap, while waiting he got sick too.

We actually thought we still won but somehow the team in 5th went crazy and jumped into 1st place!

I'm proud of our 2nd place, I definitely left everything I had out on the course.

And thanks Splat, pony tail girl and the other riders that stopped to see if I was ok/needed help during my last lap (I felt so crappy at one point I was off the bike laying down), and the EMT guy that made sure I survived!

ps: This was my first ever race that I(we) won cash!! woot!

pics:
Wiley w/the run win, and you can see Splat in the RM jersey
http://www.douglas1.com/images/P1000383s.jpg

yup, it was warm
http://www.douglas1.com/images/P1000396s.jpg

1st lap
http://www.douglas1.com/images/P1000392s.jpg

Splat
http://www.douglas1.com/images/P1000399s.jpg

me
http://www.douglas1.com/images/patspeak/doug.jpg

band
http://www.douglas1.com/images/patspeak/band.jpg

course
http://www.douglas1.com/images/patspeak/course.jpg

me collpsed
http://www.douglas1.com/images/patspeak/collapsed.jpg

finish
http://www.douglas1.com/images/patspeak/finish.jpg

HF#7

They cancelled it after I left work, ended up 6 of us showed up..so we headed out to ride Sundays Norba Course.......eventually dwindled down to 2 to fully complete it (me & some dude that came to do the race as a preride)

Tonight will be spent getting the Hollowpoint ready, and seeing if I can build the Kona back up to use as a spare

Pats Peak this weekend

Wiley & me, 12 hour duo

Its suppose to be crazy hot & humid, I can almost feel the pain already...PAIN!!

http://www.patspeak.com/s_bike.htm

Group Ride

MHCC - Coeymans quick ride, this should be renamed racer boy ride, 30 or so, almost all in NAV or CBRC kit's. Todd, Dr. Rob, Graber, Terry, Bryna....smoking fast riders. Lots of "oh crap" faces when the cue sheet came out, route was bike to rhe nasty climb, go up it & come back. great! Thatcher to beaver damn to Pinacle, 4 miles and lots of vertical..I did alright. Was in the tail of the (big) front group, and reeled in and passed maybe 6 of the 20. The way back was crazy fast, 4 of us were together doing 27-29 on a flat section, I was struggling, then Todd comes by pulling maybe 8 or so, and I got dropped like a hot potatoe!

35 miles, 18.2 avg

HF#6

Did the NORBA XC course set up for the July 16th race, the trail is nice, a lot like the '04 24 hour course. My issue was my pedal broke at mile 0.5, see there was a reason to do good circles with my right foot at spin class. haha.
I hung in there, even beat Todd, Mr. NAV himself! I am so looking forward to next week, when we do that same course again....and see how I do with (hopefully) no mechanicals.

racing...

Tonight is Holiday Farms
This w/e is The 6 hours of power, but I dont think I'm going to do the 5 1/2 hour drive. But there also is the Darkhorse race in Newburgh
Or maybe I'll just skip both and just do some rides, Friday is Chris Roe's Grafton ride, Saturday theres a MHCC metric century in Saratoga.
Decisions!

AND Pat's Peak, I am bummed - my '05 team just fell apart for this year with less than 2 weks until the race. So my plan is to give the 6 hour solo race a try.

links to races:
http://www.douglas1.com/2006.htm

sweat n summer century

Started w/maybe 25 riders, in the rain with thunder & lightening in the distance.
It cleared up maybe 20 miles in.
I was hanging with the racer boys, after stopping to help w/2 flats I ended up at the back of the field, and riding alone. Then somehow I turned up the Desoltaion Hill climb, instead of route 19....7 extra miles!! I pushed hard to catch up and burned myself out/over heated.It definitely became a tough century, I couldnt eat but i was drinking tons.
It was so super humid out. I figured I did 70 miles on my own.


105 miles
6:11
17.1 avg

but i did get a Jesrey being i was the only one that went up Lake D....

so in 7.5 days, I got in 310 miles & 19:20 saddle time = today is a REST DAY!!