Training Camp Prep

Twenty-Nine Goodie Bags loaded with SWAG from Topeak, Yeti, Pearl Izumi, Smartwool, IMBA, Powerbar and others ready to deliver to COMotion Sports Team members during the upcoming training camp.

THANK GOD ! the 5:30 am spinning classes are going to get relief from me next week. The COMotion team training camp is March 20th-24th in Fruita and it will feel good to get back on the ASR and bounce down some redrock ledges and grunt climb steep, sandy singletracks.

First task is to get bikes ready. Teamies poked fun at me last year for having a clean "brand new bike" every race. Fact is I love to work on them and spend hours each week in the fully equipped basement work shop checking every detail. Not a single DNF in 5 years racing is the pay off.

I'll be hauling the ASR, Road Project and the ARC CX. No one believes we'll get 4 good weather days to mountain bike so the road bike will probably see most of the saddle time.

Team member Ryan Schultz sends the following info about conditions in the Grand Junction area weekend prior:"Riding in GJ was pretty good this weekend. TheKokopelli was great, little muddy in spots, but overall it was excellent riding, and a majority of theKokopelli loops were open. Rabbit Valley was VERY muddy still. We rode the time trial course and a lot of it was unridable due to mud. The kids ORV training loop however, was fun. It had some pretty sweet jumps!"

That's good news as I look out my window Sunday night and see snow piling up in the Broomfield backyard. Plans are to haul the family travel trailer across the continental divide, through Glenwood Canyon and past Grand Junkyard to Fruita. That could change on Thursday with bad news from Larry Green and a call to the Fruita Motel 6...

Yeti trio ready to lock in the Silverado rack. Yes Boulder, friends, those are dead animals on the wall in the background...

We'll see and keep our fingers crossed for great weather!!