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June 2010 Team Santa Fe Activities

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Pajarito Punishment Mountain Bike Race

Los Alamos, NM
June 12th, 2010
http://nmmtb.org/results.html
Kim Bear 2:54:25 1st Place Cat 1 women 50+, and Jan Bear, 4th Place Cat 1 men 50+, 2:25:47
By Jan Bear

Punishment indeed! Pajarito is a great mountain bike race, very tough, lots of single track climbing as well as steep rocky single track descents. It is part of the New Mexico Off Road Series that includes events all across New Mexico. Race day was beautiful, warm but not too hot and had a nice breeze, unfortunately that didn’t make the race any easier for me. I really had a tough race and the 2X10 gearing I had selected just didn’t give me a low enough climbing gear for the second lap. This race has a start loop of about six and one half miles, out on to the cross country ski trails and then heads back to the downhill ski area for a traverse on a rough single-track trail. Then it’s all up hill till we get to the top of Pajarito Mountain on all single track, then a quick fun decent only to climb to the top for a second time. The big climb is only a short three and one half miles and one thousand feet of climbing. Once at the top on lap two I realized that I was cooked, made it to the finish but certainly really tired. The event really lives up to it’s name but it was a great day of riding and there was a great turn out and all that raced really had a good time, especially the Cat 3 group that didn’t have to climb to the top of the mountain.

24 Hours in the Enchanted Forest, Mountain Bike Race

Gallup, NM
June 19th & 20th, 2010
http://www.24hitef.com
Steven Yore & Aaron 1st Place Duo Men 18 laps
By Steven Yore

The first annual 24 hours in the Enchanted forest was held June 19 and 20 in McGaffey, NM, near Gallup. This was the first 24 hour race held in NM, put on by the same promoter that puts on the Dawn til Dusk in Gallup, NM. The race was a fund raiser for the CFID, chronic fatigue syndrome. I teamed up with a friend for the Male Duo class. About 235 racers, 100 teams started the race.

We reserved one of the Primo Pits right on the course for an extra $20. It was worth every cent as we were right on the race course and could do transitions at camp. There was no waiting around the transition area wondering when your partner would come in. We could see the end of the course from our camp. So we always had about a minute of warning for the transitions.

We had a stellar support crew consisting of my wife, my partner's wife, and my kids. Conditions at the start were sunny, windy, and hot. Unlike the Dawn til Dusk race, this race is held in the forested mountains above Gallup. The trees did a great job of providing shade and blocking the wind. They also provided a spectacular setting for a 24 hour race with 16 miles of single track with 1150 feet of climbing. As the trail was 95% single track, I was concerned that passing riders might be an issue, it was not. Even on the single track there was plenty of room to get by lapped rider. The riding is unlike any I have done in New Mexico. It consisted of winding forested single track, gentle climbs, and some long gradual downhills.

We had set our goals pretty high for this race. The first lap was a somewhat shortened loop with a long section of dirt road thrown in to spread the field out. My partner Aaron started the race. He came in slightly under an hour. He was one of the first 4 cyclists to come through the transition, as we transitioned, he said another men’s duo team was right behind him. We rode consistent laps varying from 1:09 to 1:28. Our last four laps were all right around 1:20.

I did have one technical issue when I broke a derailleur near then end of my second lap. The bike was rideable so I was able to finish the lap and then I switched to my backup bike for the rest of the race.

After the 1/2 point of the race we were at over a lap up on our competition in the Men's Duo. At that point we were running 3rd overall of all the teams. We started to focus on the overall place as we appeared to have the Men's Duo wrapped up. We were passed in our final lap by a 4 man team and slipped to fourth overall. We ended up completing 18 laps. It was a great way to celebrate my first Father's day and we will definitely be back next year.

AdventureXstream 24 Hour Adventure Race

Durango, CO
June 26, 2010
http://www.gravityplay.com/axs
Kim and Jan Bear, 1st Place/3 Coed Pairs 18:59:00

AdventureXstream 12 Hour Adventure Race

Durango, CO
June 26, 2010
http://www.gravityplay.com/axs
Carl Gable & Joel Krypel, 1st Place of 9 Open Pairs 9:40
By Kim Bear

This 24-hour-race was staged out of Durango Mountain Resort. It started at midnight with the 9 UTM coordinates handed out for the night time orienteering at the start. We could go in any order, but only one checkpoint was mandatory which was located at the Hermosa Creek Trailhead. Jan plotted right on the plaza and we took off straight up the ski slopes. The orienteering course had 9 Checkpoints and we needed to be back to the plaza by 10 am the next morning or penalties would be accrued. The trekking would be about 27 miles this year. We both felt good and moved quicker than we have in the past. However, it still felt like we were in last as we saw few people on the course. We ended up working most of the night with a soloist, but never saw any of the other couples that we were competing against. We ended up running out of time and had to miss 2 of the 9 checkpoints. We ran back down to the plaza to prepare for the biking portion.

At around 10 am we rode out of the resort area to head down to Hermosa Creek trail. As we had done this race on 4 other years, I could tell that this was my best bike. I felt really good and so did Jan. However, as we raced across the trail to get to the Tyrolean traverse we only saw couples who were doing the 12 hour race. Again, this gave us the impression that we were behind our competition. We got the Tyrolean traverse and had to wait for about 15 minutes to get on the ropes. We got to see Joel and Carl as they had just completed the ropes and were taking off to the river. After the traverse we rode to the river, got into the boats and started the very long paddle to town. The river was low this year making it tricky to get through some of the sections. After 17 miles of paddling, we finally reached the finish line. At that point, we had no idea how we did, it would depend on penalties and how the other pairs faired. When the results came out we were surprised to see that we were in first. However, we both felt really good with this race so I was pleased that our results reflected our performance.

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.
Kim Bear, AXS Durango CO
Photo from the Durango Telegraph, June 26th.

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