SSWC08 Quickie

We are back in the Seattle rain after spending a quality weekend with a bunch of SSers down in Napa. Plenty of stories and photos to come including the tighty whitey category, many hilarious costumes, some nasty wrecks by fellow competitors, and a really hard 30 mile race.

My race involved a bunch of this...


And plenty of this...


But I got my official finisher's black bottle opener. Mission accomplished.

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SS

Sans Shifters. Silly Speeder. Single Speed. With the SS World Championships coming up soon in Napa, I've been riding my SS bike lately to get the legs ready for ultra-low and ultra-high cadence work the race will require. A few weekends ago SLR and I went down to Greenwater, WA to race the White River Revival in the shadows of Mount Rainier. The course is one of my local favorites, so I was excited for some proper NW mountain bike riding. I had some good legs and took the W in the singlespeed category and my time would have had me at the top of most of the expert categories. Here's a few photos from the weekend.

We went down a day early and camped at the race venue. We had such a good time camping it makes me want one of these.


Yep, it's speed de uno.


SLR even gave the trails a go for her best effort on the MTB yet. Here's her little rig waiting to get dirty. She even railed the tech descent. Fun times and a solid confidence booster. I see more trail riding in her future.


Podi shot with the victory brews. Sunshine wheat = Yummy!


We leave in a few days for SS Worlds. It promises to be the wildest race of my long racing career. Year's past have been decided by go carting, pugel stick battles, the whiskey shot course short cut, etc. Definitely some good stories to tell in my next post.

Thanks for reading,
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Mt. Snow Video

A sweet video of the pro XC race at Mt. Snow can be found at this link. It provides a good perspective of what the course entailed, but for some reason the climbs don't look nearly as steep on screen.

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