Haps

There’s a lot going on these days. Wouldn’t have it any other way, though I’m going to need to catch my breath at some point.

First, Mike Curiak is up for voting into the MTB Hall of Fame. His nomination is here: http://tinyurl.com/mertzw. He’s up against some pretty serious competition, and I may be biased, but I think the ultra endurance scene is woefully under represented in this sort of thing. I’d urge anyone that can spare the $20 (you have to be a member to vote) to help us vote him in.

Also worth voting for is Steve Anderson in the advocacy category. The guy is a trail hero on all levels. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Steve on the AZT and other Southern AZ projects and he is a top notch guy that has done an incredible amount of work for the MTB community.

If you want to vote, go here. Both of these guys really deserve the recognition, IMO.

Pete during the AZT 300

Thoughts go out to Pete Basinger who was hit by a truck while ripping out another solid divide race effort. He’s OK, but he suffered a broken clavicle and a broken bone in his arm, not to mention other road rash, cuts, etc. What a terrible way to have to drop out of the divide. I had a semi-secret SPOT tracker up on TopoFusion and had been following Pete the whole way, cheering him on as he matched or bettered record pace despite some serious mechanical (and weather) set backs. I am happy he is OK, but sad that a successful divide run still remains elusive for him.

Speaking of the Divide, Matt Lee wrapped up yet another win under brutal conditions, and the race still goes on. The tracker / leaderboard, which I’ve dumped a lot of work into the past few weeks, is here:

http://tourdivide.org/leaderboard

There’s also the general purpose divide tracker, that even has a unicyclist team on it:

http://topofusion.com/tracker-divide.php

I’ve been further developing the software for an adventure race up in Canada:

http://topofusion.com/tracker-best.php

There is still the possibility of a new tracking business out of all of this, but so far we have not been able to settle on specifics and there have been some difficulties.

Shimmy Coco Mingo Pop

Chad has stepped up to the plate and is putting on a race on the route we toured last week, aka Coco-mingo-bob. Race thread here. I love everything except the name… needs something more memorable/creative….

The rides continue here in Flagstaff. I can get used to the trails being so close and of such ‘choice’ nature. Paula and I have had fun further exploring the urban trails network. I’m up to my usual randomness in the trail system, and have also managed some good rides with the likes of Gnome, Troy, Benson and such.

I learn a lot when riding by myself, but also when riding with others.

D’oh! She ran Sunset trail and about 500 yards before finishing, crashed into the only puddle on the mountain. Luckily her back is OK, but no more crashing, OK?

Alright, off to take a crack at the Breck Epic course maps.