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May 2008 Team Santa Fe Activities
RACES:
La Tierra Torture Mountain Bike Race
2008 New Mexico Off Road Series, Race #4
Santa Fe, NM
May 4, 2008
http://www.latierratorture.com
Jan Bear 2nd of 10 Expert Master 50+ men (3 laps)
Gary Johnson 6th of 10 Expert Master 50+ men (3 laps)
Carl Gable 6th of 23 Sport Master 50+ men (2 laps)
By Jan Bear
This year I again was one of the race organizers for La Tierra Torture soliciting
prizes, marketing and helping with registration along with the small group of local
mountain bike and trail enthusiasts. This was the third year of the re-introduction
of the La Tierra Torture Mountain Bike Race; the original race held in the same
general area in the 1980's and 1990's put on by the city of Santa Fe but ended in
1997. This year there were 209 cyclists that entered the race. The race is unique
in that it offers custom La Tierra bike jerseys to the first 100 entrants. The course
was 9.5 miles per lap and located in Santa Fe's Northwest Quadrant. It had a mix
of rolling, technical, rocky fast and fun single-track and double track along with a
giant roller coaster of an arroyo crossing. The course was again different from
last year with more single track so the lap times were a little longer. We all had
fun and the weather the day of the race was perfect with some cloud cover. Gary
struggled with some mechanical issues, but still finished strong in sixth place.
The race was again a great success with several thousand dollars that were
raised being donated to the Santa Fe Conservation Trust.
Thank you to Team Santa Fe Sponsors: Litespeed, BTI, Bike & Sport, ThorLo,
GoLite, PokerJunkie.com, Camelbak, Leki, Niterider, Dermatone, CW-X,
Princeton Tec, SofSole, Shain, Polar, Hydropel, Outdoor Research, Suunto,
Polar HRM, Maxxis, E-Caps, Wingnut Gear, Potable Aqua and Bolle.
AdventureXstream 24 Hour Adventure Race
Buena Vista, CO
May 10, 2008
http://www.gravityplay.com/axs
Kim and Jan Bear, 1st Place/2 Coed Pairs 22:39:00
By Kim Bear
Last year, AdventureXstream only offered a 12 hour race; this year the challenge
was a 24-hour-race staged out of Buena Vista. It started at midnight with the first
4 UTM's handed out for checkpoint 1-4. The weather was forecasted to have
some showers during the night so we were prepared for a fairly cold night. We
took off into the night and about an hour into the race it began to snow heavily.
Our checkpoints required hiking straight up mountains into the sky/snow. We
finally got to the orienteering course and decided to do it during the day. (We
had the option to start the course and then return on bike later on in the race.)
We also decided to take a penalty and miss the next checkpoint so we could get
to the Tyrolean course when it opened at daylight. We miscalculated and ended
up getting there an hour early. We could have gotten that other checkpoint and
would now have a 2 hour penalty added to our final time. It was cold so we had
to try to keep ourselves warm while we waited an hour for the rope course to
open. We were the first ones across the Tyrolean traverse. The pulleys they
had this year just seemed to get you to the middle of ropes quicker and it was still
hard work to pull up to the other side of the canyon. We then headed for the river
section. This proved to be more challenging than last year. Later we would hear
that the river personnel had rescued 78 people that day. We were lucky; I almost
got tossed out of the rubber ducky about 4 times but Jan's skillful maneuvering
helped to keep me in the boat. At the takeout, the winds had come up chilling us
as we were soaked from the high flowing river. We found cover by the
restrooms, Jan got the rest of the CP's plotted and we took off on the biking
section. The CP's were placed at the top of 3 different climbs. We worked the
CP's until late afternoon and then were back at the orienteering course. Jan got
most of the CP's but at 7:30 pm I was done (like toast!) I did not want to do the
second O-course and really wanted to ride back to the finish line in light. I finally
convinced Jan that the penalties would be about the same if not less than the
time it would actually take us to do the next O-course. We took off and were at
the finish line in under an hour. I was very happy to be done, but nervous about
how we would place. It was difficult to tell the results because of all the
penalties.
It was not until later on that week that we would find out that we had gotten the
first place points for the 24 hours co-ed pairs.
Thanks to our sponsors, Litespeed, BTI, GoLite, CamelBak, Leki, SealSkinz,
Dermatone, Boulder Bars, Hydropel, Montrail, CW-X, Polar, Terry, Petzl, Black
Diamond, Bolle, Werner, Suunto, Shain, SofSole, Bike and Sport, and E-Caps.
AdventureXstream 12 Hour Adventure Race
Buena Vista, CO
May 10, 2008
http://www.gravityplay.com/axs
Team RHOC Santa Fe, 1st Place 4 Person Mixed Team: Carl Gable, Joel Krypel, Elberta Seybold, Kevin Ormerod
Support: Donna Ormerod, Crystal Ormerod, Kaelin Ormerod
By Carl Gable
It was a good day with each event and transition going smoothly and without
a hitch. The paddle section started out our advantage since we navigated
the entire route smoothly. Many other teams were flipping and swimming. We
pulled two paddles out of the water at one point as they came floating down
the river. This was a section where we made time by not going slowly. The
bike too went well. The course was more ridable than last year. A bit shorter
but also less sand so one could ride. Kevin kicked into high gear towing
Elle from the get go which contributed to our faster overall speed. At some
points on long climbs, I could not keep up with the combination of Kevin
towing Elle. The orienteering went like clockwork, no glitches, just going
from point to point. We were starting to realize at that point that there
were not other teams in front of us so it was a great feeling to fianlly
roll across the finish feeling like the race ended at the right time.
23rd Annual Santa Fe Century
May 18, 2008
Kim and Jan Bear
http://www.santafecentury.com
by Kim Bear
It was a great day to do a Century. Jan and I left around 6:30 am and rode with
our friend, Dan Knobeloch. We got into Madrid quickly as we pacelined with
other friendly Santa Fe locals. From Madrid, we got to the "dreaded" heartbreak
hill and got to see first hand how much harder it is to ride up on a double chain
ring; up until this year we have always had the luxury of using a triple front chain
ring. We are trying to act like we are "roadies", but are not being very successful.
We ended up completing the 100 miles in a little less than 6 hours. It was a fun
day and we beat the big wind.
Elevation Profile
The total elevation gain is about 4880 which makes it a moderately hard century.
Thanks to our sponsors, Litespeed, BTI, GoLite, CamelBak, Leki, SealSkinz,
Dermatone, Boulder Bars, Hydropel, Montrail, CW-X, Polar, Terry, Petzl, Black
Diamond, Bolle, Werner, Suunto, Shain, SofSole, Bike and Sport, and E-Caps
Training Activities
Mt Lemmon run, 31 miles, 7200 vertical feet
Tucson AZ
May 26 2008
Carl Gable and Barb Dutrow
Barb was spending some time in Tucson for work so I went there for the weekend
to visit. Barb had mentioned that we should go for a long run but I didn't
quite realize what she had in mind until I arrived. Upon hearing at the airport
that her plan was to run up Mt Lemmon, I realized I had not quite packed
all the necessary equipment. We stopped at a store and I purchased a hat
and some Shot Bloks and hoped for the best. We had run Sabino Canyon before
but only to the end of the canyon. Upon looking over maps we saw a nice route
up Bear Cr. canyon to the south that connected with the upper end of Sabino.
Above that is the Pine Canyon trail that goes all the way to the Mt Lemmon
road. It looked like a great route.
It was a perfect day for the run, cool in the morning, no clouds. As the
day progressed and we climbed up and up, it became clear that we did not
have enough water. However, in a lucky break, just when we were out of water
with 2 hours of climbing left to the top, we passed through Mud Springs and
as we passed and pair of hikers were pumping water from a small pool. They
kindly filtered a couple of liters of water into our bottles and we were
off again with plenty of water. The upper trail appeared to be a trail that
was not used by many people. Many sections were overgrown and very narrow.
By the end of the decent we were hot and parched again since the day had
turned hot at the lower elevations. Barb was going strong at the end, I was
dragging a bit. All in all, a great day and we saw a lot of miles of spectacular
country.
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