Re: Mountain Bike Race with MUNI Catagory

Are you guys doing the 26 mile loop?

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steveyo
...like having your own personal rollercoaster...

- a few 'uni race write-ups'
(http://home.nycap.rr.com/rduhan/uni_race_writeups/)
- muni and kokopelli uni 't-shirts, mugs and stickers'
(http://www.cafepress.com/steveyo)
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Someone needs to beat my time! I'm pretty sure I could, but I have to
work this weekend. Good luck all!

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steveyo said:

Are you guys doing the 26 mile loop?

No. Ron, the organizer, only will let unis on the 8 mile short course.
I'm not sure why that's the case, but there you have it. Maybe he
figures that if someone like me (ie, not in the best of shape) went for
the 20 or 26 mile course, he'd have to wait around all day for the
finish. I doubt he understands the animals that some muni-riders are!

But it's a pretty butt-kicking long course. Last fall, Gary and I rode
in the Whiskeytown 9-5, an 8-hour endurance race, that covers a 10-mile
loop with much of the Lemurian's long course. There's a lot of really,
really steep climbing, but some amazingly great singletrack descents,
too. The Redding area riders are lucky to have such great trails near
them. It would make a good site for a CA Muni Weekend some year.

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They could have a cut-off time that you must meet in order to be counted
as an official finisher, say the last time that road in the SE corner
is crossed or one of the two rest stops.

If potential competitors were made aware of this cut off, those that
would be borderline would prob not enter. And counsequently they would
likely eliminate some really slow riders and people who were horibly
out of shape, making it a bit easier for the race managers.

This happened to me. I once entered the 'Dipsea '
(http://www.dipsea.org/)race but from my practice, I would have been
really close to the cut-off and didn't want to do the race unless I'd
be allowed to finish. Plus the actual course had a lot more vert than
my practice trails. Someday I want to run the entire thing as well as
do the 'Double Dipsea' (http://www.doubledipsea.com/). (I'm not crazy
enough to do the quadruple.)

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are going within a hour, do it, and if you can do a trick 50-75% of the
time do it along the way.- Bob Burnquist

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Street'
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So the race was this morning, and Gary, my sons Drew (16) and Tyler
(13), and I rode the short course. We thought we'd be the only muniers,
but there was a group of 5 from Weaverville, none of whom we'd met
before. Chris Kennedy leads an after-school uni program in Weaverville,
and he brought along 4 students (not sure their ages--about 11-14, at a
guess) for the race.

Well, the course starts with a 4 mile fire-road climb, and it just
kicked my butt today. Last year I rode my 24"/165 cranks, and was able
to ride most of the uphill. This year, on my 29er/150s, I walked more
than half. I wasn't too pleased with my performance. Gary and I hiked
together, while Chris and his crew, and my two sons, quickly
disappeared into the distance. But the downhill was a lot of fun!

Chris ended up winning the Muni class, with a time of 1:07. Just a few
minutes off of Phlegm's time last year! My son Tyler took 5th,
somewhere in the 1:30s, and Drew came in 6th at around 1:40. Gary and I
crossed at the same time, 1:42 and change. Not a stellar performance,
but we at least cut six minutes off last year's time, so we can't
complain too much.

It was a lot of fun, and that's what we were out there for, after all.

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Cool! I wish it was closer; I would have been there.

corbin

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