XC ride lengths
03-03-04, 05:35 PM
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Speed Racer
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I normaly ride about 10-15 miles if i only have a hour or two, but if i can ride as long as i want its not uncommon for me to do 20-50 miles a day.
One of my favorite rides to do is going from Sunriver, to bend, its a 20 mile one way trip along with descutes river. its super easy so you can go real fast and keep a good pace going.
I usualy do it both ways, as i ride from my house, and riding back is normaly the only option for geting back home. you just dont want to ride it on the weekends! to many hikers to watch out for... its more of a hikeing trail, so thats why its a super easy ride, but it is all single track so its cool.
One of my races last season had a good 9 mile climb on a jeep road. it was a hard race for sure, but the ride down was well worth it! single track with some VERY FAST jeep roads in bettween. it was so harry on the jeep roads (you would get goin at least 35-40mph if you where crazy enough, and I was)... this was the part where i crashed HARD, i totaly skined my legs, hips, and arm and sholder! not a little scrap... when your goin that fast and go down.. its no good if you can imagine
that crash slowed me down a lot but i got back up on my bike (i was even cliped in still on the pedal) and keped going down, i was red and brown when i got to the finnish.
though, I managed to keep my 2nd place posistion, as me and the first place guy got a real strong lead on the rest of the pack. but the 3rd place guy was not to far back... maybe 30 seconds back after the crash. i had the 1st place guy in the cross hairs before i went down.
But it was a kick ass race still!
Ramble ramble ramble:!
Later
Jonathan
One of my favorite rides to do is going from Sunriver, to bend, its a 20 mile one way trip along with descutes river. its super easy so you can go real fast and keep a good pace going.
I usualy do it both ways, as i ride from my house, and riding back is normaly the only option for geting back home. you just dont want to ride it on the weekends! to many hikers to watch out for... its more of a hikeing trail, so thats why its a super easy ride, but it is all single track so its cool.
One of my races last season had a good 9 mile climb on a jeep road. it was a hard race for sure, but the ride down was well worth it! single track with some VERY FAST jeep roads in bettween. it was so harry on the jeep roads (you would get goin at least 35-40mph if you where crazy enough, and I was)... this was the part where i crashed HARD, i totaly skined my legs, hips, and arm and sholder! not a little scrap... when your goin that fast and go down.. its no good if you can imagine
that crash slowed me down a lot but i got back up on my bike (i was even cliped in still on the pedal) and keped going down, i was red and brown when i got to the finnish.though, I managed to keep my 2nd place posistion, as me and the first place guy got a real strong lead on the rest of the pack. but the 3rd place guy was not to far back... maybe 30 seconds back after the crash. i had the 1st place guy in the cross hairs before i went down.
But it was a kick ass race still!
Ramble ramble ramble:!
Later
Jonathan
03-04-04, 10:41 PM
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...and bless the trails
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Around here, time is about as big a deal as miles...guess cause most of em' are short around here...Most local trails get ridden twice...now that my lungs are getting there, I'm riding one lap clockwise, the next one counter-clockwise...
Most of em' are 4-8 miles long...usually suck up 45-75 minutes of ya life...
Most of em' are 4-8 miles long...usually suck up 45-75 minutes of ya life...
