Park City Bunk Beds/Entertainment System Project

We are finally finished with the Park City project. It was bunk beds and an entertainment system thing in the same room in a condo at Empire Canyon in Deer Valley resort. It was a lot of work and my boss did most of the work. I just helped out. The hardest part of this project was transporting everything up on the 4th floor in a large building with condos(thank goodness for elevators). The elevator was nice and dandy except we couldn't fit the 4'X8' panels in it so we took about four trips carrying those sheets(about 4 big sheets) up the stairs and they barely fit all around. The hardest part was climbing up four floors, we did take a 3 minute break halfway up each time.

Ya, at first everything was in pieces and I had no clue what the whole room would look like or what everything was set to be when it was done. I did look at some plans but it looks way better in real life. The bunk beds and entertainment system is all a cherry wood species with a dark stain to match all the moldings, cabinets, etc. in the condo. Looks very nice. I guess I've overheard that the bunk beds alone are $7,500 but I don't know how much the entertainment thingy thing cost and I don't even want to know. It was a lot of fun building and wood finishing the whole system in the shop and installing everything. I guess I have to admit working in Park City is pretty fun especially in the off season when no one is there. Wish I had my bike though, I could have ridden a little bit on the trails close to there after we were done each day.

My 2011 Mountain Bike Race Schedule

For the races in 2011 next year, there will be 11 instead of 13. They took out two of them, Jackson Hole and The Canyons races. I still need to do 7 of them to meet my race team requirements for next year.
This year has been great and I am hoping for a better one next year!

March: #1 St. George
April: #2 Hurricane
May: #3 Five Mile Pass/Lehi
#4 Sundance Resort
#5 Soldier Hollow/Heber
#6 Draper
June: #7 Deer Valley Resort
#8 Sherwood Hills/Logan
July: #9 Snowbird Resort
#10 Solitude Resort
#11 Snowbasin Resort
Aug: none
Sept: Endurance Race- 12 Hours of Sundance*

*I'll spend the whole year thinking about whether to do the 12 Hrs of Sundance or not. Also if I can get in a team doing it.

Forrest Gump Ride

Yesterday was like the biggest biking day of the year. I both road biked and mountain biked the same day. It started out that I wanted to do a regular 2 hour road ride in the morning and take it easy, but it turned out to be a 2 and half hours. Then I wanted to mountain bike in the afternoon after I ate lunch, I've decided that after my morning ride. My brother and his family came for a visit and said they were heading up the mountain and fish. My mom decided to go up because it was at Lake Hill, so I took a lift up and decided to ride down the Pioneer Trail and Flume Trail from Lake Hill. When I was dropped off, I decided to do some climbing but just for a little bit, I thought I could just go to the GBEEC, when I got there, I decided to go longer, to Bluebell. When I got to Bluebell, I felt going a little more, hmmmm, maybe to Philadelphia Flat. Nope, I didn't stop there, I went all the way to the top of the mountain and boy I was tired. About 2,500-3,000 feet of elevation of climbing(the top was at 10,500 feet), I think. Then I turned around and cruised down the canyon. Ended up going down the Pioneer and Flume trails.

I ended up riding 40 miles of road riding in the morning, from 5 Mile Junction through Spring City, Mt. Pleasant, Moroni, Wales, Chester, and Spring City again. It was great, no wind at all! I don't know how many miles on the mountain biking part but I assume around 22 or so, but it was a 2 and half hour ride also so I got a total of 5 hours of riding that day with road riding and mountain bike riding combined. I stayed in zones 2 and 3 all day but got into zone 4 sometimes, probably the hill climb I was in zone 4 for a little while. Going at that of a moderate pace just kept me going that long and it was great to go that long. I felt pretty good but very tired at the end(for some fat guy like me). I felt very rewarded though.

No 24 Hrs of Moab, so I've busted.

I just told the race director of Mad Dog the bad news. I don't have any money and can't go to 24 hrs of Moab. I took my bike to the bike shop to get my wheel fixed and they said I need a new wheel which is $500 and my old wheel won't hold up for 24 hrs of Moab. I got laid off for a while and not working as much right now. I won't get paid until maybe 2 weeks but most of the money will go to my mom which I owe her. So Moab is out of my list. I could if the race was at the end of October but I guess that won't magically happen. That's ok. I am comfortable just doing the Intermountain Cup races during the spring and summer every year I guess. I am just doing long rides right now and taking it easy and I guess that's going pretty good. But I did get some more lights to make the night rides more magical! So when the daylight savings time changes, I will have more fun than anybody else at the 24 hrs of Moab but I hope my wheel will hold up for these rides.

A pedalin' at Deer Valley on Labor Day

That day on Labor Day with the family, we went to Park City, yes I was there to work earlier that week to install a $7,500 bunk beds we made. I had a chance to ride for like 2 hours around Deer Valley resort and had a fun time. I haven't ridden for a while and so the first hour was brutal but the last hour was much better. At first I climbed a new trail, I've never ridden before which went up to Silver Lake then went down Little Stick and Deer Crest then did the race loop for another hour which was Pipeline and Gap trails. I had a lot fun and the weather was perfect, it was cold that morning so I waited until later in the day like in the afternoon.
I had a good trip but I had to get up at 5 the next morning to go up to Deer Valley again to work on the beds. Now I am home and not going back up until we get the entertainment thingy thing made then install that there. My co-worker is doing some touch up finishes tomorrow on the beds then I am supposed to call and see if I work some more in the shop later this week. I really like Park City riding, it's my most favorite place in the whole state of Utah to ride. So much trails everywhere.

Night Ride

Well, I got my lights and one of them was a fortune. The one mounted on the handlebars is the good light with 255 lumens or 25 watts. Which is pretty good and has three settings, high, low, and boost. Boost last 2.5 hours, high lasts 3.5 hours, and low at 10 hours. I set mine on boost because I don't go that long. I was going get a good head lamp for my helmet for like 80 bucks with 130 lumens but I bought this Energizer head lamp with 30 lumens for like 20 bucks just to use temporary until I get money saved up but the Energizer did good enough so I might use this one for 24 hours of Moab with my handlebar headlight. I am going to have to another battery for my headlight because I am going to be doing it twice that night. Maybe the total of 4 to 4.5 hours.

I went for a night ride last Saturday night and I decided to do the Flume Trail and it was great, I wanted to ride for another hour but had to get home. I will need to do it again as soon as I get my front wheel rebuilt after this week. I ordered a new rim for my tacoed rim like two weeks ago and it came so my bike is there at the shop getting fixed.

It is a whole lot different when riding at night, you just don't know where you're at when you're out there in the dark. To get a better fun ride, ride on a trail you are familiar with then you wouldn't panic. Also on a trail you have all memorized.

The Flume Trail is a great trail and really packed down! A lot of mountain bikers and some motorbikers have been doing so great ridin' on it.