BT May Mountain Bike (BTMMTB) Challenge (Page 4)

So I head out today for a nice little Mtnbike ride and aftera 3 mile dwnhill ride and a .05 miles into a long climb I start losing tork, WTF?  I look down thinking that I just dropped my chain.  After stopping i I noticed that the Macgyver fix on my back derailer during the whiskyrow ride three weeks ago, broke..  You got to be kidding 4 miles from the car i had to hike back up the 2 mile asesent.  So after a 2hr climb I was only about to score 2 pts for the total ride.

Now i have a busted rear derailer and a wasted 2.15 hrs, 2 pts only 2pts.  At least I get it back tomorrow after a $75 new derailer damn.  I will have to do some serious riding this weekend if possible...

So sorry this is late getting to you guys. 2 race weekends in a row is killing me on catching up.

I pulled all the totals from your blogs, so if you don't have ride points in your blogs, they aren't on here. Please let me know if anything is incorrect.

Here's where we're at so far:

What the heck happened to Team 2? Mike the Bear had to leave us, and I've pinged those with zero points to see if they still want in on the challenge. You guys have left Akidoman out to dry! If those with zeros are out, we'll just merge into one big happy group. Because that's just sad.

Still, I gotta make sure I hit the dirt. Akido's on my heels and has huge rides planned for his Denver weekend. I can't slack off!

Ill ride with team two..   i love the underdogs.....  but I am happy to ride as one big group... let go get dirty....

oh can night rides count as an extra point or so?...  mama wont let me out in the day.....

So yesterday was MBAA Race #7 and aside from the disgruntled former bike shop employee running around re-marking the course and adding extra, as Elaine puts it, features (apparently a spare tire was added earlier this week) this had to be the best race yet.  Schwag aside the course was actually very fun, except for the 3 miles of climbing in the middle.  Sounds like the long loop folks didn't have as much fun as the short-loopers.  Anyway,

Hills - B (4.5 miles climbing of a 7.8 mile ride..ugh!)

Technical - C (this is what I feel like mtn biking should be like - a few rocks to roll over but otherwise some fabulous single track)

Time - A

So total is 9 points!  That is unless Liane disagrees with me...

Oh I love riding in trees.....^^^^^^^^

Sweet I will be sneaking off tonight again for a little twilight ride....

14 points this week.

Here are the standings as of today (5/20/09). I merged everyone together as the teams were a mess once I deleted those that had left the challenge.

1.5 weeks left to go!

Going camping this weekend and will be taking the bike to Payson.  If I can sneak away I will ride trail 260 for a bit.  Need to get more points.  But I got to get back on my tribike, she is calling me out...