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Early AM MTB Epic

So the fellas (The WB, Longman, Bobby Mounts, Matson, JFry and I) got our early AM MTB on today. I have the day off and could pull this off which was rad. 6AM start, home by 9:20 or so. My Polar jobby job recorded 35 or so miles, 4820 feet of climbing 6920 Feet of altitude average with a max out at 8700 feet. Ha! I felt it, boy.

The ride looked more or less like this but I did a crappy job on this new Map My Ride thing. (The ride can be linked to here. ):

The route essentially was...

down town (coffee...)
Boulder Creek Trail
Four Mile Canyon
Logan Mill Climb
Traverse to Mountain Pines
Sugarloaf climb
Switzerland to Switz North
to Gold Hill
to Sunshine
home in NoBo....

The throw-downs were happening. I was not a part of the waring. The homies are super fit and already in full swing on their assault on the Mountain States Cup goals. In my unbelievably bottomless suitcase of excuses, I get past Goal Hill and onto Sunshine and notice the chain sagging. I'm like WTF?? I get home and have a looksee and I'd gone the whole way on a fairly nicely seized rear XTR hub (note to self, never deviate from DT Hugi...). Anyohoo, I could not have hung on all those attacks with these studs, but would have made my trip a helluva lot easier! Some pics:

Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 1:20PM |

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Copyright & copy; 2011, Greg Keller. All rights reserved. Mud and Cowbells is a blog dedicated to the cycling discipline of cyclocross, also known as cyclo-cross, veldrijden, 'cross, etc. The blog speaks about various cyclocross, mountain bike and MTB equipment such as Ridley X-night, Ridley X-Fire, Ridley Bikes, Mavic, Shimano, Ritchey, SRAM Force and SRAM Red, Full Speed Ahead, 29'er, 29er, carbon wheels, cyclocross bikes from Rock Lobster, Specialized, Scott Addict, tubular tires from Dugast, FMB tubulars, Challenge Grifo , TRP brakes TRP EuroX Carbon TRP EuroX Magnesium Sidi Sidi Dragon SRS Vernice FMB Tubulars among other various products. In addition to cycling photos and imagery such as cyclocross photos of Bart Wellens Sven Nys, Sven Nijs, Erwin Vervecken, Niels Albert and teams like Rabobank Fidea, Revor, the blog talks primarily about cyclocross racing in Colorado, cyclocross racing in Portland, cyclocross racing in New England and other regions. Race coverage of the Superprestige series and GVA series is also linked through and commented on in the blog. The blogger is based in Boulder Colorado.