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Team Santa Fe Newsletter
October 2003
REI Quebradas Metric Century (100 km)
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Socorro New Mexico
Ries Robinson
Finishing time: 4:02
Finishing Place: 3rd, sport 30-3
Mountain Bike Race
The Quebradas metric is a 60 mile fire road race in Socorro
New Mexico. I was talked it to going by Pete Kern, and
headed down for a pleasant 60 mile tour of Socorro. If
sounded like great fun, 60 miles in the New Mexico Fall and
almost no elevation gain. At the sound of the gun, the pace
was a frantic surge up each arroyo until people, myself
included, were popping off the back like champagne corks at
New Years party. The pace finally became reasonable as he
headed in a slight uphill with a strong breeze. The course
wandered through the high desert plateau of Socorro without
a drop of water in site. Due to the heat of the day almost
all of the riders were running low on water. Thus, the aid
stations were like little oasis in the parched landscape.
With 20 miles left I was feeling strong until the sand wash
arroyos sapped by last ounces of energy. I was happy to
finish the metric century with out any wrecks, flats or
snake bites.
Gear used: Litespeed mountain bike, Platypus hydration system.
Psunshine Psychocross
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Sunday, October 12
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Ries Robinson
Finishing time: N/A
Finishing Place: 4th in B category
CycloCross
Last year was my initial foray into cyclocross racing. The
races were fun but the dismount/mount process was always a
maximum heart rate experience and typically good for at
least a lost place or two. I vowed this year would be
different and got a cyclocross lesson from former cyclocross
champion Bart Bowen. The dismount/mount process went well
but keeping air in the tires proved difficult. I had three
flats during the race but had a ball. Looking forward to
the next race this weekend.
Big Tesuque Trail Run
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Santa Fe, NM
Saturday, October 11, 2003
Jan Bear
16th place in age group, 1:54:32
http://www.santafestriders.org
What a difference four years can make, the last time I
participated in this race back in 1999 with Carl Gable we
both had a respectable time of about 1:44. Well four years
and no running the 2 weeks before the race shows. Not only
was it hard as usual with a 2000 foot climb over six miles
then a thunderous six mile thigh pounding decent of the same
four wheel drive road to the finish. The event is a twelve
mile trail run up Aspen Vista road to the radio towers at
the top of the mountain and back. Boy was I sore the next
day. But thanks to the CW-X knickers that I was wearing the
soreness was not as bad as it could have been. It's a great
event to be involved with and I enjoyed seeing lots of
friends except was mad that they beat me. Thanks to CW-X,
CamelBak, Montrail, Bolle, Polar, Thorlo and Dermatone for
their support during this event.
Rendija Canyon Orienteering Meet
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Los Alamos NM
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Carl Gable
1st place, Long Orange Course, 73:20
http://mouser.org/nmo/
This was my first time running a purely orienteering meet.
The meet was put on by New Mexico Orienteers, a club that
just got organized this year and put on their first meet on
June 7 2003. For this event they set five courses, short
and easy (white) to hard (green) to long but not as hard to
orienteer (long orange).
I opted for long orange because it was a longer course with
more vertical.
The whole thing went smoothly with no problems finding any
of the stations. The topography in Rendija Canyon is very
distinctive and it was rather straight forward to make the
mental translation from the points on the topo map to the
features in the canyon. The course had thirteen total
stations to locate. It was a blast. I'll be back for more.
Austin, TX
Saturday and Sunday October 25th and 26th, 2003
Kim Bear, Jan Bear and George Broome
http://www.laf.org/events/rftr.html
This was my second visit to Austin, TX. for the Ride for
the Roses Weekend. This year Kim and I were there with TSF
member George Broome and his wife Lisa, it was George who
got us interested in this event. George as a cancer
survivor has done it several times. The weekend began with
a 5K run in downtown Austin, we all finished in the warm
humid morning air. I need to brag a little here, I finished
first in my age group 45-49 in a time of 21 minutes. Really
not very fast but I was quite surprised when I was called up
to receive my first place prize a daypack. As you can
imagine I was quite difficult to live with the rest of that
day. Later that day we had lunch at Chuey's a Lance
Armstrong favorite, then off for a short bike ride to get
our gear in order. Well guess what my bike shoes had the
wrong cleats, so a quick visit to the local bike shop and I
was back in business. The following morning we headed out
to the race start site, it was raining, very windy and cold.
Well it was time to start and the rain had stopped but the
wind and chill continued. We started out together but
quickly became separated. The race was uneventful for me
and I finished in just under 6 hours, for Kim, Lisa and
George who managed to stay together there was a flat and
some other minor problems but the finished as a group in
61/2 hours. Kim and I had to catch a flight home so we were
taken in a rush to the airport to catch a 5:30 PM flight
while George and Lisa would drive back to Santa Fe with our
bikes. What a great weekend and great events for a great
cause. Thank you to our great TSF sponsors, CamelBak,
Polar, AXO, Litespeed, Thorlo, CW-X, Bolle and BTI.
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