CX Sims #1

Tonight was the first night of CX sims.  Frickin' blast!  We hightailed it down to the BLM land west of Grass Valley and put together a very challenging .6 mile course shown below (ignore section that connects in the center).  We ran this clockwise.  One run up section, one big puddle you had to run around, one big big dip that was a thrill on a cross bike, some muddy spots, berms, jumps, baby heads, you name it!  The fellas that won tonight were on single speed mountain bikes.  As I said, this was a very challenging course.  We'll head there again next week.

Basic V - 5 1/2 Hours - Pioneer Trail

Up Uren Street
Up Snow Mountain Ditch
Up Willow Valley Road
Up Pioneer Trail
Down Scott's Drop
Along Scott's Flat Lake trail
Across Scott's Flat Dam
Up Dam Road
Up Pasquale Road
Up Cascade Loop
Up Sadie Drive
Up Lake Lane
Up Cascade Canal Ditch Road
Down Blue Gravel Road
Up Blue Gravel Road
Up Burlington Ride Road
Up Unknown Trail
Down Hallelujah Trail
Down Pioneer Trail
Down Unknown Trail
Up Rock Creek Road
Down Pioneer Trail
Down Miner's Trail
Down Snow Mountain Ditch

Yellow Route in Map Above

12.79 Miles
1873 Feet Climbing
1:46 Hours
1762 Calories
142 Average HR
172 Max HR

Pink Route in Map Above

24.94 Miles
2894 Feet Climbing
3:24 Hours
2474 Calories
139 Average HR
178 Max HR

Entire Ride Totals:
37.73 Miles
4767 Feet Climbing
4:10 Hours
4236 Calories

This was an exploratory route. Google Earth finally worked on this one, however there was quite a bit of tresspassing done to make it happen. The nice fella that lives on Blue Gravel Road let us through his property and even gave us directions. I don't advise trying this route as it has many No Trespassing signs and gates. We were lucky this guy was home and his gate was open. All and all a good ride, but doubt I'd do it again. Accompanied by Trucker, Tin Foil Hat Man, Chuckwagon and Raphael.

The deer were out in force this day.

Climbing early in the morning up Dieter's Trail.

On the Snow Mountain Ditch very early in the day.

Trucker climbing up Willow Valley.

Raphael riding over a log on Scott's Drop.

Tin Foil Hat Man and Raphael on the NID road.

Trucker on the NID Road.

Chuckwagon riding across a pile of snow on the Hallelujah Trail.

Raphael on Miner's.

Chuckwagon on Miner's.

On Bike Strength - Burlington and Hallelujah

Up Pioneer Trail
Down Burlington Ridge Road
Up some new trail
Down Burlington Ridge Road again
Up some other new trail
Down Canal Spur A Road
Down Towle Mill Loop
Up some unknown road
Down Burlington Ridge Road again
Down Hallelujah Trail
Down Pioneer Trail
18.37 Miles
2072 Feet Climbing
2:27 Hours
2538 Calories
140 Average HR
184 Max HR

On the singlespeed. Accompanied by Raphael, The Believer, Trucker, Billiam and J, J, J. Explored some new trails that haven't been mapped yet. Very dusty. Two flats and one small group of misplaced riders. I got stung by a damned bee.

On Bike Strength - Ghost Train

Trail formerly known as Ghost Train.
12.71 Miles
1287 Feet Climbing
2:02 Hours
1723 Calories
133 Average HR (this includes hanging out for 25 minutes drinking a beer and chit-chatting)
181 Max HR

On the singlespeed for the first time in months. Accompanied by Trucker, the Believer, Raphael, & Billiam. Lots of new trails since last time I rode up there. Dusty, very dusty. It was great to his some fresh pow-pow, the trail is retarted! We didn't even ride all of the new stuff, we ran out of daylight.