Here’s a wee slide show of 8 days of fab riding Dave and I did north of Moab at spring break. We rode some trails we have ridden mtb’s on before near Moab then headed further north to White Wash and traveled over some amazing new-to-us terrain. Fantastic scenery and riding. Most days we ran […]
Author Archives: Lynda
Camp V6.0 Surviving the Queen Stage on Day 3
Day 3 Arizona Strip gravel grinder – 107 miles This day is the serious training day. Have a plan for this day! For those of us doing long events in the next month like 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo solo or Iditarod, the full route is perfect. For those coming out of the winter […]
Coconino 250 race report
I raced the stage race format of Coconino 250 Oct 5th – 8th. Quite a bit off the back with this blog post but life has been moving fast since then! I initially preferred the concept of the ITT (non-stop race format) over the stage race format (official stopping points on course for the night where the […]
Sub-24 bikepacking with a twist
…a twist of the throttle that is! My newest pony goes VROOM!! I have not owned a motorbike before. One of friends mentioned my mountain bike riding skills should show up when I hit the dirt on the motorbike…well I’m still waiting for that to happen! I’m a huge chicken on the motorbike so far. […]
Colorado bikepacking bliss summer 2012 trip
JJ, Ed and I completed a simply awesome bikepack trip along the Colorado Trail. The pace was casual by racing standards but I’m just not sure you can use the word casual for riding at 13,000 feet on alpine singletrack. Spendiferous is a better word. JJ blogged better pics and words than I could ever […]
Pre-Dixie 200 course recon
Dixie 200 starts on June 23rd so DH and I spent last weekend pedaling around checking out different parts of the course to confirm water sources and trail conditions. We started off with a quick jaunt on the Markagunt plateau to check the Sydney Peaks trail and Dark Hollow. Awesome trail conditions, zero snow and […]
Lynda’s 2012 Grand Loop Ride
Short story: Cat Morrison and I raced the 360 mile Grand Loop route, self-supported in 3 days, 11 hours and 33 mins finishing at 3:39am on Sunday June 2nd to set a joint female ultra record. We are super-stoked!!! Neither Cat or I carried a camera so all pics are borrowed from DH. THE PREAMBLE […]
I’m riding Grand Loop!
I’m very excited and quite nervous! Cat Morrison and I are doing an ITT on The Grand Loop starting 5am on Wednesday. We hope to ride and finish it together but will be self supported and will finish it out solo if it comes to that! The Grand Loop is 360 miles linking up Kokopelli […]