Cyclingnews coverage (something got mixed up on the Swanson/Richards interview photo) Ha!
MtbRaceNews coverage
Skinnyski.com article with Jack Hinkens Report
Big thanks to Bruce at skinnyski for the excellent photos, once again, taken at our event.
First full day of school this week on Tuesday. All rip roaring excited to go on a foggy morning.The summer was great, but I am probably one of the few that will say it was long. Kids had good chunk of May, all of June, July, August and part of September. Can't complain about that. September has started out nicely with perfect weather and I was totally ready for it.
Saturday of the bike race weekend, Oscar, the student from Russia working here until end of the month, said "ztanding around iz no good for me. I need more phyzical labor" Tuesday went over to twin lakes to work on the singletrack loop we started a few years ago. We made excellent progress this week until getting rained out Friday just before lunch.
Made it to about the half way point today and now start weaving back north along the east side of south and north, twin lakes. At the high point back down near the lakes planning on some nice flowy big berm stuff. Underbrush isn't as thick as the first half so should go quicker. Goal is to finish this November. Finally feeling more energetic to swing a pulaski most of the day and haven't seen ticks for 6 weeks. Green light!
Sergei and Oscar doing a nice job. I went to Russian camp for five years, goofed around mostly, but did learn a few words and remember about 15. Mixed with my sketchy Spanish which comes out when thinking of what a Russian word is....we have some fun communicating. Most importantly, we all understand what pulaski means.
Next Spring hope to do a spring opener race again and have it just be one loop. See how it goes and eventually add more trail once the new singletrack gets ridden in etc. Will pretty spongy at first even though we are digging down and tamping it out.
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