24 Hours of Moab or BUST!

Greg asked me like a month and a half ago(at Solitude race) if I wanted to do the 24 Hours of Moab with him and some other guys. I told him lastnight I would like to and I am excited about it. We'll be the Clydesdale group and we are going to try to shoot for 2nd place in the Clydesdale class.
There will be four of us as a team and we will be taking turns. The course is 15 miles of jeep road with 1,300 vertical feet of climbing per lap. Greg told me we each will be doing it like three times during the whole race. So I will be doing it once in the afternoon or evening, then once during the night hours(in the dark), then once during the sunrise on Sunday morning. The race goes from noon on Saturday 'til Sunday at noon. Whoever finishes the most laps in a 24 hour period, wins.

Most people like to do this race solo, duo, coed, or a team. There will be some fast riders out there and this will be great. A great endurance race in the end of the bike season. Most endurance races are always held during the end of the season. That's when everybody likes to do them.

To train for it, I need to get some lights for my bike to practice riding at night, Greg told me I should get a handlebar mount light for like $130, then one of those energizer headlights for the head.

This race will be held on the first weekend of October. I am going to get me a medal this time.

Group Ride lastnight...

In order to reach my membership in the race team requirements, I had to guide a ride. I guided a ride with another rider, Greg. We decided to take everybody to Lambert Park in the foothills near Alpine, UT. I told Greg I wanted to go there and try them because I've never ridden them before and I heard good stories about these trails.

About 8 people showed up and we had a blast. The trails were just very windy and very snaky. They were easy though, not much climbing, but you could still get a workout. The girls stayed together and the boys in front went where ever they wanted. We had quite of few beginners and they had a lot of fun. At the end my computer read 11.75 miles with an hour and 22 min. of riding. I got a good ride even though I am not fully recovered from all my races.

Lambert Park has many trails you can choose from, it's like a playground and you can ride all over. It's open year round and they have a race every February called Frozen Hog which riders have a blast in the snow. They say all you do is more walking in the snow.

Well, now I know some more good trails to ride on in Utah County, I had a blast on them.