I’ve been hitting the rollers steadily this past week.  Steady diet of Sweet Spot Bursts, Tempo work.  Even a few Sufferfest videos to mix in some intensity to prep of the upcoming race.  Coupla days here and there on the skate skis & even ran into Mr. Baddick on Saturday at South Boulder park turning some laps.  I ‘attempted’ to follow on the skinny skis as much as I could, but don’t let him fool you he’s pretty quick on them.  I only managed to catch up to him when he took a tumble down the big hill , but naturally I fell flat on my face on the flats when I was trying to put some time into him.  It was all in good fun and is still hard as shit no matter how many times I try to get out there and practice.  I still need to get up to Eldora and take a lesson from Peter.

After a week on the rollers and the only outside time on the skis, today I’d had enough.  Dry Roads was all that was needed to motivate me.  20 degree temps, dealt with them plenty.  I’ve got all the gear, didn’t even have to really HTFU.  It was just due time to get outside and ride.  I mean if I didn’t know how can I justify myself when B-House is pulling off 6 hour rides in those temps and laughing his way to the top of the podium.  Gotten a little soft out here in the 45 degree winter temps.  Manned up, layered up, sent out the texts and was joined by Carson and fellow Epic teammate Brian Sells.

21 degrees, been a while

In a way it was kinda nice and exhilarating.  It was peaceful for sure.  My legs were blown from the skiing and hitting the rollers hard the past few.  But it was all damn worthwhile. …..And I figured out why I was struggling so hard to catch up and go forward > my damn bottom bracket is hosed/was frozen.  Would barely turn 1/12 of a stroke when I pushed it forward.  200 watts felt like 400 as all my energy was being wasted pushing through.  Whoopsie, should’ve fixed that a bit ago, but no need a new road bike is en route (tomorrow/tuesday??).

It was as cold as it looks

In the end, was far better to be outside than inside.  Here’s to 70 degree temps, dodging cacti and kicking some ass next weekend at OP!

Anyways the gist of this blog post was meant to be about my focus & motivation for 2012 & outline my goals.  Sometimes making things public can force you to never back down & push yourself to new levels.  As I posted earlier, going to be racing with Epic Pro cycling team p/b The Gear Movement.  New team, new teammates & some awesome new sponsors for 2012.  I’m excited to be back on Cannondale bikes, been a long time since I’ve ridden one, but I truly loved those bikes.  From my F2000SL (that I worked my ass off in college at Pizza Hut to pay for > Hell yes I rocked the blue Volvo logo’d frame & those crappy CODA discs, but got those swapped.  I think I only broke 2 of these frames!) to the Scalpel that took home off the demo truck, they were fast bikes.  2012, hoping to be on a Flash 29.

Flash 29

Serious team & serious goals for 2012

• PRO XCT Racing!! Texas, Colorado Springs & Missoula (will miss Wisco though as I’ll be back home for my mother’s wedding)
• Nationals!! XCO Nationals in Idaho
• Winter Park Series as I can hit them
• Steamboat Stinger (need some redemption from last years finish)

My goals are for some good finishes at the front of the pack  (race how I know I can race).  Perhaps crack the top 10 for the big races or pull some podiums up high at Winter Park/Steamboat.  Big time, hugest goal, holy crap maybe?  Get into the World Cup at Windham.  That’s not as easy as one thinks.  Need some solid UCI points for the season & not too many races will I get to hit to chase down those points, but if you’re going to dream, better dream big.  I’ll have the bike, the support & the team to do it.  I just need to bring the training into the right spots.

Yes, it’s completely true.  I’m actually training this season with a purpose & goal (see above).  The last 2-3 years have seen me mostly focused on family (getting married, moving, etc), making other people fast, & plain old having fun.  I got fit, but never truly race fit.  Did some intervals sparingly, rode my bike tons but lapsed when it came to the true dedication.  What most people call ‘soft’, didn’t push myself beyond the normal comforts of general riding.  It showed in my race results & my power numbers & even my mentality (at least according to my wife).  I would do just enough to get by & it worked for me then. It no longer will.

Not so this season, I’ve been cracking the whip at the gym.  Late evening or early morning gym sessions, crushing the core work.  Going the extra bit to get myself fit.  Riding is slowly up-ticking as well as my overall strength & general fitness.  I’m leaps & bounds ahead of the past few seasons in January & truly ready to get it on.  I’m feeling strong & it’s a great time to be alive & training hard.

Rolling with Coach Carson

First racing of the season kicks off with the Team at 24 hours of Old Pueblo.  Racing as part of a 5 person mixed team & looking to mix it up a bit. Obviously won’t be anywhere near mid-season race form, but will be nice to get some intensity in, particularly with Mellow Johnny PRO XCT only 2 weeks after.  Good chance to really integrate myself with the team & hopefully give Sam & Chris a run for their money on lap times

Clear roads & Mild temps have made for good training

That’s it for now.  Temps are looking great to load up the miles for this weekend & hopefully the snow melts.  #getsome, set some goals & get yourself focused for this season.  I am!

Lots of stuff already out there on How everyone finished (2nd Place Overall-Team Omnium!)

-FasCat Blog

-303 Cycling

-Singletrack.com

CU Cycling mountain bike team kicked some ass at Nationals and I’m super proud of every single persons effort.  Whether they podium’d or not they were an integral part of the support team.  Also, all of the support crew were incredible.  Cooking dinners, maintaining bikes, helping set up and tear down the pits.  We rocked the house and Ft. Loosing is scared next year that we are coming for them and going topple their reign at the top.

I’m super excited for the Seniors (Peter/Claire) that had incredible races & pumped for all the riders that will be coming back next season!

Far and away we rock on the bike as a team, but we MOST DEFINITELY have the most fun.  When Sam was lined up for the short track and the official were counting down, it was awesome to have the whole CU team standing there shouting GO CU!! And singing the team fight song!  No one else even came close in school spirit!  You’ve seen the race pictures, here’s some fun pictures from the weekend!

Pre-riding the XC course in the snow and mud

Joey is all mud, blood and smiles on course

Sam is a bit dirty after the XC Race

Joey takes a moment to concentrate before his run

Was Successful enough for a 4th National Title in DH

I’m sure Baddick doesn’t want me to post this, those Brits are so shy, but we had fun at the costume party

Hunter S. Thompson came along with team for some reporting

You pretty much had to be there to understand this one

Raddest, fastest team around!

There’s a bunch more pictures, but they are not fit for the interwebs!!

Looking forward to returning with the team for 2012 mountain bike season and unleashing it on the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Conference & nationals again!

Side note: Training for me personally for 2012 has begun, will get a report up this weekend as I hit the trails with the new Quarq quatro and bring everyone up to speed…

The team was a force to be reckoned with during the 2011 season and I bumped into the riders at nearly every race I attended.  So it was a natural fit to ride for them (can’t beat em’ join em’).  I know I’m ready to step up my game for the 2012 racing season.  And I know the riders on the team are stoked and ready to take on an awesome schedule of races for next year.

Full details of sponsors, etc are still in the works, but I know from last year the team is awesomely supported by a huge number of companies.  As soon as the details are available, you’ll hear tons about it.

I’m super stoked to be riding with the best team in Colorado and the best amateur and pro riders around.  2012 is going to be an Epic season for sure!

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It has been a good year out here and I’m more than happy to be here and having fun.  I’ve had an ok race season and I’m ready to prepare for next season and really step up my game for 2012.

Let’s play catchup for the last few weeks….

I went to Grand Junction with the CU Cycling Team.  Had a ton of fun and even got to do some extra riding afterwards in Fruita!  No complaints there as it was tons of fun!

Brian rolls through and takes an Oreo feed during the XC race

Post Race shred session on 18 mile rd

Weekly CU team practices at Valmont, Spandex & Baggies mixing it up

Mom, Grammy & Wheels (Dave) came to visit us in Colorado!!

This past week has been awesome, been filled with tons of fun stuff as my mom, her fiancé Wheels (Dave) & Grammy came to visit us in Colorado. It was awesome to have them here.

We started things off with some time on Pearl St doing some shopping and then took our travels up to Rocky Mountain National Park, tough first we kicked things off with Lake’s cross race at Xilinx

Lake shredding it at Xilinx CX

We spent the day taking a nice long drive up to Estes and enjoyed every bit of it.  Leaves were in bloom in a few spots, going up high was pretty sweet and even got to see some Elk in the meadow

Lake and Mom

Elk Meadow…. The Elk are off to the left, but I just like this picture

Lake made some friends

Wheels and our family on Trail Ridge, mom and grammy were too freaked out to get out of the car!

I just dig this view

Elk. Chilling.

The Church at the base of Longs Peak

We got had some great adventures, I even took them up to Gold Hill, but for some reason the camera didn’t work properly up there…  Family dinners, laughs and great times.  It was super nice to have them out here and having a great time and relaxing.  So nice to see my mom so happy after all the stuff she’s been through and it was even better to see Grammy out on vacation!

Riding has been mostly on the down low and will be till I return from the Collegiate Mountain Bike National Champs in Angel Fire, New Mexico.  Super excited to head out with the CU Cycling team, watch them kick some ass and support them.  After that, time to change the oil in the engine, swap some spark plugs and revv it up for 2012 Mountain Bike Season!

But the big deal is I started working with the University of Colorado mountain bike race team!!  GO BUFFS!!  Super excited to dive in and work with an awesome group of speedy kids.  The team is packed with some superstars and I look forward to heading off this weekend to the Conference champs at Western State and then gearing up for Nationals at Angel Fire in New Mexico.  Been busy leading some group rides, attending meetings and working on getting things organized so we can wins some stars and bars this year.

Yesterday, rolled out for the group ride, though we had some high participation last week, I think this week was down due to everyone prepping for the weekend and/or couldn’t make it up to the trails.  But nonetheless Donny from CU and I had a blast riding Walker Ranch.  Even though been here all summer and lived here a few years ago, I haven’t ridden Walker Ranch since I first visited Colorado waaay back in 2004!!!  It was the very first trail I rode out here in the Red State, so it’s held a special place in my book of cool trails.  But for some odd reason, never seemed to make it back.  I remembered a few bits and pieces of it and even some of the technical features.  All together though it’s actually super fun and I need to get back there and ride it some more!  Side bonus it was 85 degrees out and felt like mid-summer!

Great High Country Views

Rolling with Donny

That’s CU down there!

I kinda remembered this hike-a-bike

Waterfalls on the way up

At least good views of the South Boulder Creek

Frig, this got long.  Hey Scheske, it’s good prep for El Reto though!

Buffed out and Rolling Singletrack

Cool view of the dam

Cross has been up and down this season.  Podium’d at Valmont then moved up to race the Open class and promptly burped my tire riding off the curb at the start (got a gracious wheel change) & then rolled the rear on the first lap.  Doh!  That’s after taking a mega digger at Wednesday Worlds on the pavement at Elks.  Hopefully things look up.  At least they are starting too for next season already. Got some big plans and will shortly have some stuff finalized and can share it all…

Here’s a cross picture thrown in just to change things up

Rolled over to Winter Park once again for the King of the Rockies XC race at Tipperary Creek. Had heard tons of good things about the race course. And could definitely tell by the number of people at the race, that the short trip there was worthwhile.  Rolled up with the Big Cat Frank himself (*the last time Frank raced mountain bikes was when I was Colorado to race the NORBA Nationals at Snowmass in 2004!) and we rode the 4-5 miles over to Fraser where the actual start line was.  Took a quick pee and tried to continue my warmup, and nearly missed my start!

Jumped on the back of the group with under 2 minutes to go.  Wasn’t really worried as there was a bit of dirt road before we would hit the first climb.  Was able to position well on the dirt road and was feeling pretty good rolling fast with the group and was where I wanted to be when the group started to get antsy rolling to the base of the Tipperary Creek climb.  The legs had a wee bit of a different tale to tell as I hit the climb, on the early slopes felt like I was going a bit backwards and started to fall through the group.  As we got up higher I started to get more into a rhythm, but it was a tad bit late as the riders whom I could have bridged across to where a bit up the trail.  As I hit the upper part of the 25 minute or so climb, speeds picked up and I caught a rider in front of me.  The climb compared quite a bit to Italy Hill, wide, flat and gently rolling to the top and the descent was nearly the same.

Unfortunately I couldn’t squeeze past the rider in front of me before the long descent down and with as loose as everything was, decided to just sit in and bite my tongue.  When we hit the road and headed into the next section of singletrack, I dispatched him and rolled forward into the super fast, super fun and swoopy trail.  I’d have to say, knowing this trail would have been a huge advantage.  No idea where I was going, but just ripping it as fast as I could and flowing at high speed and having fun on the trails.  I blew a bunch of corners here and there and got caught out in the wrong gear a few times, but all together made it out of the trail and onto the open logged climb.  I suffered a bit here and couldn’t really find a good rhythm on this climb and just worked on getting over the top and down the descent and through the feed zone.

Crossing the Creek!  Photo by MountainMoon Photography $5 downloads yeah!

I was caught shortly after the feed zone by the single speeders and then up the longer fire-road climb by another rider.  We would continue to yo-yo for the rest of the race.  He’d climb a bit faster than me and I’d bring it all back and more on the descents.  As we neared the end of the race, I knew only had a few more miles to go and attacked him up the short fire-road climb before the final singletrack section.  I had a pretty solid gap going into the woods and it slowly climbed up.  He came darn close to closing it by the time I hit the top of the climb, but as soon as I dropped the descent the gap went right back up and I was able to roll to the finish line with relative ease.  I finished 22/38 riders in the Pro Class and was relatively happy with the race, but definitely need some more work on my climbing at race speed!

Valmont XC

Sunday, decided to head over to Valmont as it was close and have some more fun on the bike and race the Boulder Mountain Bike Festival, it was a fairly small event, but new it would be fun and still brought out some super fast guys!

We had a small but elite group at the race and I had a really solid start and hung onto the tail end of the group throughout the first lap.  Bryan Alders crashed on the last corner and I snuck into 4th and he would give chase for the remaining few laps before zipping past me with a lap or so to go.  Mike West took off on the 2nd lap and I was a few seconds back off the group of 2 in front of me, when I got stung by a bee on the 2nd lap!  Hit me right in the chest and stung me in the stomach, took me a few seconds to figure out what was going on and when I finally did the riders in front where gone.  I gave chase as much as I could over the next few laps, it was brutally hot and exposed but the course was actually quite a bit of fun.

Giving Chase early on

Happy to be done in the heat

Podium time

Even the Lakester got to race!  He was super pumped and ready to go.  Got a good start and when he shifted gears, hit the afterburners and dropped everyone.  He was excited a ton, even got a post race interview…

The Kids line up and are off

Lake dropping the hammer and getting some separation

Top step of the podium

All together was an awesome weekend of bike riding and I’m looking forward to this one coming up.  Going to be some great stuff on tap, stay tuned!

Videos:

Finally got around to editing up a few videos of from When Julie K was in town… Here ya go.  Click thru to embiggen or watch in HD

Rolled into town in time to grab my packet and get a hotel room right across the street from the start.  The race course started right at Howleson hill, which was literally 2 blocks from downtown.  Super cool and had a great vibe for an early am start.  The course rolled right out of the gate and went uphill. I made it to the front group on the little pavement section to widen out, but then it went straight up the mountain on a loose rocky climb and I picked a bad line and fell in line with the group.  We then tucked into a few bits of singletrack and got held up behind a rider as he dabbed uphill. Things then spread into a long 2-3km doubletrack climb and I wasn’t really ripping it up the climb but was holding my own ok.  Dropped through the first of many meadows filled with wildflowers and then switchbacked its way up a long tortureous climb through the aspens/wildflowers.  You would duck into the woods and then float out through the all flowers, then back into the woods, back into the flowers.  Was kinda surreal but was also super cool.  Made the time pass easily I suffered and slogged to the top.  When I finally hit the top and the feedzone was happy to rip it down the descent.  Only problem was, we were bunched up and the guys in front weren’t very fast.  The guy behind me was yelling at me for a pass, but I was gapping him in easy sections, some griping about how he was a local, etc.  But I managed to get past the few riders and have a clear path to the bottom and ripped it solo.  What was that guy screaming about being a local and knowing the trail?  Well he shoulda practiced going down it some more as I had at leat 2 minutes on the group by the bottme!  The descent itself was awesome, just super long and super flowy and fast, lots of corners but super tachy dirt.  Crazy tall wildflowers though made it tough to see any lines and look farther than what was right in front of you.  Had to be a bit of a Jedi and anticipate what was coming up based on the flow of the terrain.  It was like descending blindfolded in a few spots.

(photo from Singletrack.com)

We kicked out onto a fire road at the bottom of the descent.  Even though I just ripped the descent my legs weren’t ready to go hard with the group in front of me so I sat up and rolled up to the next climb.  A super long singletrack climb, pockmarked by hoof prints, enough so that on the 2nd lap I opened my pro pedal valve up to get some more cush!  Felt ok going up this climb, I had to pee so bad on the first lap that I stopped and took some time.  Got passed by a few riders, but brought them back as I liked the flow of the climb.  Mostly wooded, but would have a few breaks and small descents  carrying speed into these steep uphill sections and could just sprint over the top.  Once you hit the top of the climb, the view was just epic.  I literally stopped pedalling and just was awesomely wowed by the mountains and the area.  Was amazing, reality set in when Katie Compton came ripping by at the top.  In hindsight should’ve stuck in front on the descent as we got in a small group of 4 and no one was going forward.  Would’ve been nice to have hit it alone.  Though the 2nd descent to the finish line, made the first one look sad in comparison.  Huge wildflowers lined the trail all the way down and tons of curves and berms and jumps and just FLOW, more FLOW and your cup runneth over with FLOW.  Barely needed the brakes other than when an unexpected corner came up that you couldn’t see with the height of the wildflowers.  Lots more Jedi descending tricks were utilized to make it down this descent.

Came through in our small group to the finish and went to grab drinks and food out of my cooler.  But some jackass had moved it!  Seriously who moves someones cooler when its just leaning agains the fence?  Rummaged around and finally found it and threw it back into place.  Some lady said she’d move it back (I presumed she was the one who moved it in the first place) and I told here I had riders on course that may need it.  I wasn’t lying as Anna was behind me and there was a spare tube/co2 and some food for her just in case she would need anything.

Second lap was a bit more of the same, except I was mostly alone.  I payed my toll for the heat at the top of the climbs and the legs finally showed some semblance of effort 4.5 hours into the race midway up the 2nd climb.  Ugh, was just a little too tired coming into the race as my heart rate would never creep past 150.  I ended up finishing 30th, not shabby but not like I know I can perform.  Such is racing.  Sometimes up, sometimes down

Ah well that’s racing.  The upside is, this was without a doubt one of the coolest race courses I’ve ever ridden.  My words suck in comparison to how the support, volunteers and the course itself really was.  There was so much FLOW on this course and so much fun.  Wildflowers, Aspens, MEGA climbs, MEGA descents, just awesomenesss all together.  I’ll definitely be back for this one!

On the way back home, I just lollygaged and took some photots and had some fun.

Looking down on the Valley after rolling out of town

Rabbit Ears Pass

North Park

More Mountains

Moose!!

Big honking moose

Pretty certain the moose congregate here so they can people watch

Off this afternoon to Laramie, Wyoming for the Laramie Enduro.  Hoping for much better legs and some fun this weekend!

The course is a fairly short loop, although slightly changed from last year as the bridge was closed.  We got a monsoon rain show in the afternoon and left some wet spots on the course that made it tough to corner quickly and having not ridden in mud for so long, had to relearn how to slide around.  Course starts in the ball field and follows the perimeter for a few hundred meters and then dumps into some tight singletrack.  Quite tight, few sharp corners that make you scrub all your speed then re-accelerate.  Coming out of the first singletrack section, we had a two-way bridge crossing that was a mandatory run.  The downside to this was right after the bridge was a straight up loose, rooted climb meaning 7x would have to lug the bike up the steep climb while running, remount and head into the second section of singletrack.  That section was a bit more open and quick to pass through, though it got super tight just before the climb.  Literally had to come to a dead stop to corner 120 degrees around a tree, over some logs and a quick descent to the new climb section.  Brought you along the backside of the hill at high speed with some off camber bench cuts, then a tight steep switchback climb.  Once off that, quick little technical descent and then weaving through the trees along the creek.  Drop out and run back across the bridge back into the start field and then drop back into the flat singletrack.  Was really fast through here, but the corners were slick and required scrubbing speed in order to not blow them.  Then a quick off camber slippery climb that takes you back out and rolls along towards the start field.  Overall was a solid course and would be fun to race.

Got some practice laps in, and felt good and ready to go.  I knew getting into the woods first would be critical as would have first chance at the run-up (which I suck at).  No room to pass for a bit and I wanted to be out front.  I hit it hard off the line, got out front and got into the woods in the lead without issue.  But it was tight and twisty and slowed us down, I actually felt really great and wasn’t breathing hard at all (sea-level air) and was just surprised at being able to go anaerobic like that without dying.  Got up the run-up without falling on my face and was being chased hard by Andy August.  I hit the base of the switchback climb and accelerated a bit to get some separation and put a few seconds into Andy.  Rolled through the first lap with about a 5 second gap and kept moving forward.  Somehow or other I lost my rear brake, it was straight mush to the bars.  With the millions of tight corners and the mud I needed to set myself up nicely to hit the corners smoothly.  But that was no longer happening, was basically barrel rolling into corners at speed and trying to use my front brake to scrub speed, but had horrible setup coming out of the corners and basically had to soft pedal till I could get my line.  I knew that I was losing time in the singletrack so I made up for it on the climbs and out in the grassy field.  We caught some lap traffic and I think Andy got caught up, but my gap went up to around 20 seconds and from there I basically went into maintenance mode.  Conserving energy in case of a dumb crash or slide-out in a corner but just working my way through the course.

Had tons of family on hand to watch both myself and Lake race and was getting awesome splits and able to keep my pace and just have fun racing my bike around the course.  Felt great to walk away with my first Victory of the season, have some fun riding my bike and show some family a new sport.  Of which most were super excited to see and had a great time.  Thanks to everyone who came out and had fun

SoGnar

Updated with Strava Chart

Southern Greater Naples Area Ride- with the Geneva Bicycle Center Crew.  Definitely what I was looking for!  A big day on the mountain bikes with friends.  We rode up the Orange Trail backwards on the race course, down the carriage trail (past the Jayhole!) took the road over to Bristol, climbed up the backside, dropped Off the Radar, Dugway to the Stid Hill Creek bed, to some unholy steep 4 wheel trail (3 garmins confirmed 51% grade!), then dropped the switchbacks, took the long lonely road back to Cutler and back up the carriage to drop the Orange Trail

Was super awesome to ride with my greatest riding buddies, have some fun and rip some of the most fun trails ever.  Sidenote:  It’s rained a ton and these fellas have been ripping moto’s instead of dirt, which meant mega hard descending.  Friggin A they were bombing stuff, I may have gone harder downhill on some super loose, muddy trails than I did uphill!

Here’s some pics of the day:

We love our Osprey Packs

Heading to the top of that hill in Cutler

Holy Crap is everything green!

Start of the climb on the backside of Bristol Mt

Muddy, loose, rocky & uber steep

Rolling through the Hemlocks

Climbing up the creekbed, this really sucked and seemed to go on forever.  Now I know why I never went this way

Back to Cutler on the Orange Trail.  A trail I may have ridden more than any other as it was once the 24 hour course

All together some awesome riding for sure.  Was seriously amazed at how good it felt to ride back home (the humidity notwithstanding) but never really went anaerobic.  Wish I felt like that all the time on the bike.  Was quite a bit of a difference riding in the thick woods.  So much ground cover and mud, really had to be on your game to know where to put the tires.

So in Boulder this past weekend, opened the coolest thing ever!  Valmont Bike Park, a free city park that is fully dedicated to bikes!  It’s literally an amusement park for bikes.  3.2 million dollars were spent on this place, 3.2 MILLION (with the extra zeros!)  Here’s a detailed map of the park (pdf).  Slopestyle, dual slalom, multiple pump tracks, dirt jumps, skillz park,  cross run-ups, xc trails, pretty much everything.  I have a feeling that in about 5 years or so, you are going to start seeing some phenomenally skilled riders coming out of the Front Range area with this place available.

I went there with Lake last night and there had to be a few hundred people out there riding.  Everyone from skilled dudes ripping the ‘XL” line on the slopestyle course to Grandma on a busted up Murray riding with her 4 year old grandson.  Took Lake out there to ride and he was so pumped.  The 20 minute car ride, he did nothing but dance in the car the whole way.

When we got there took him on some of the easier stuff and his skills were slowly picking up very quickly.  He was easily riding some of the elevated bridges (including one taller than him), rolling up and down the hills (‘No brakes’ he would yell).  At the end he was hitting up a little drop in and would roll over to the rock that was about 8-10 inches off the ground and jumping off it with ease!

The Flatirons make a perfect backdrop for the park

Rolling up to the top

Jump Park

Slopestyle Park

Dual Slalom

Pump Track

Lake Shredding it on the Corkscrew descent

Testing out the ‘cross skills on the 5280 runup

Lots of line choices!

Definitely looking forward to heading back there with him and even Bridget to have some fun!

ALSO!!!!!! HUGE CONGRATS to my brother Justin and his wife Becky on the birth of their 2nd baby last week.  Reagan Michelle Hilimire, was born 1 week ago (6-7-11) today.  Super healthy and can’t wait to meet her in a few weeks time

The Happy Family!!