Just got back from the Trestle Park Enduro in Winter Park and it was a blast! The race consisted of 5 stages in the bike park over 3 days. Friday was a long Chainless race, which I had never done. Saturday had three 12-15 min stages and Sunday was a 25 min race from the top of the mountain to the base. It started to rain on Friday right before the start of the Chainless race, which made things a lot different. I decided to hang it all out (of course) and caught my 30 sec man with a successful pass with no way to really judge my speed or when I was going to need to pass. I kept it pretty loose, but maybe too loose and went down before a high speed section that cost me some valuable time. Dang! I woke up Saturday and could barely walk from my crash, but now it was time to pedal. I attacked the first stage knowing I had to play catch up. This time I caught my 30 second and my minute man! Although, I burped air out of my front tire in a high speed berm and was trying to nurse it to the finish over a bunch of blind drops that were elevated wood structures…..needless to say, I went down again very hard. At this point I was very disappointed and decided that I would just try to get down the mountain without crashing. Stages 3 and 4 went better with me finishing right behind Mark Weir for both stages. Read More→