A weekend on the dirt

It was the first real summer weekend of the year here in Colorado so what better way to spend it than in the mountains. I headed up to Winter Park on saturday to race the Super Loop...at the last minute I thought better of racing as I had yet to ride my mountain bike this season. While the peeps were racing, I enjoyed a great climb up to the top of Mary Jane and the reward of some sweet single track back to the base. As the racing was still going on when I got back down, I decided to head back up to the top and enjoy another fun descent. It has been years since I spent a day at a Winter Park mountain bike race and nothing much had changed, it was just like the good 'ole days....lots o' fun.

Sunday BFF and I headed to Breckenridge to ride again in the dirt. This time it was to scout out next weekends race course...the Firecracker50. An epic mountain bike race - 50 miles with tons o climbing on some super challenging terrain. For the second year in a row it will decide the mountain bike marathon national champ. We rode a lap of the course, climbed a gobs ton, descended some fun trails, were lucky with gorgeous weather and made only one wrong turn....that is I only made one wrong turn -- good thing BFF and Jack-attack coordinated efforts to track me down! The weather held out for us and we had a simply fun day playing in the dirt.