Biking

I rode The Avenues again today.  I took my new flip cam and a tripod and filmed a little too.  I’ll post some a video once I get a chance to edit the footage.  It goes without saying that the end result will be mind-blowingly awesome.

Hobbes and I rode The Avenues.  I was rusty and almost wrecked a bunch of times.  I tweaked my recently sprained ankle on a small drop too.  But I found a good song to ride downhill to:
“Hustla” The Roots (feat. STS)

I rode The Avenues with Hobbes. I hadn’t planned on going as far as I did, so I wound up riding in shorts, a sweatshirt, flippy floppies, and without a helmet or armor.  I still had a good ride. Mountain biking is fun.  Later in the day, I messed around with my new Kodak Playsport camera, filming a couple of shots of me biking.  They turned out pretty good.  I’ll post them when I can.

I took Hobbes for a ride on the Avenues and Parley’s Loop. He swam. I listened to the new Roots album.
The Roots Ft John Legend – The Fire by doyoureallywant

Sam and I took a break from the Farmer’s Market and went for a downhill ride at PCMR with Mike Kisow.  We rode Empire Link to Daly Canyon and cruised down Main St.  We even stopped at Doolins for some free wings (every Mon-Thur. 4-6pm).  Not a long ride, but a good way to spend the my last day in Utah for a week or so.

Sam, Kisow, and I rode Little Emigration Canyon twice.  We shuttled the trail with three cars, going for the biggest carbon footprint possible for a day of biking.  Next time we’ll burn down the trees to make the path wider, pour oil into the creek to make trail faster, and kill the moose Mike stopped to take a picture of a half mile into the ride.

Sam at the top of Big Mountain Pass.

Each ride was 4.8 miles of downhill.  One of my favorite downhill trails in Utah.  The only hiccup was Sam breaking his left crank while jumping into a creekbed.  Luckily it was towards the end of the ride and Sam made it down only a few minutes behind.

At least we look extreme.

Sam and I went for a late evening ride on The Avenues.  It started getting dark as we left the house, but we managed to make it to the top with just enough light to still carry some speed on the way down.  There were definitely sections of the trail that were pretty sketchy without much visibility.  We made it back just in time.  Probably couldn’t have left the house any later.  Good ride.

I rode The Avenues by myself.  I set new PR’s (that’s what super awesome tri-atheletes use to abbreviate their new personal records) in average moving speed, 16 mph, and moving time, 6:10. I’m a dork for even keeping track.  At least I didn’t put this on Facebook… yet.  Something like “blasted my quads on the sprint, charged the downhill section and set new PR’s for speed and time.  Getting geared up for next week’s tri…”

Sam and I biked The Avenues today.  My first time going to the top in a couple weeks.  I’m out of shape.  Too many weddings and bachelor parties.

Today’s downhill soundtrack:
KiD CuDi – Erase Me (feat. Kanye West) by djeternity412
Kid Cudi- Alive (Ft. Ratatat) by shethjuice

I rode The Avenues with Hobbes and Dora.  I only made it to the halfway point.  It’s been a couple weeks since I last rode, but I remembered how to ride my bike and it was still really fun.  Really fun.

Sam and I waited for the sun to drop and went for an evening ride on the Avenues.  Hard to believe but it had been almost two weeks since our last time riding the trail.  We made pretty good time to the top and had a great ride down.  Not as fast as usual, but still a good ride.  Oh, and we passed three moose just feet from the trail.

Took Hobbes, Dora, and Tracker for a couple rides to the pond and back.  Not much of a ride.  Only 3 miles total for the two laps.  Good pictures though.

Puppy party in Parley's pond

Sam and I rode PCMR.  Our goal was to find a couple new trails to ride.  We tried to find Gully, located close to Moosehouse and King Rd, but we missed it and wound up riding King Rd to South Sweeney’s Switchbacks.  Not what we were looking for, but not a terrible run either.

We successfully found the second trail that starts below Town Lift where they keep the rails and boxes in the summer.  A couple minutes into the ride, having walked a couple sections already, Sam and I decided we were in over our heads.  With no easy way out, we managed to ride (and occasionally walk) our way through a pretty technical downhill trail.  Eventually we came out at the top of First Time and had a pretty good ride back to Pay Day, through Park City resort plaza, up Empire Avenue, and back to the cars on Park Ave..  Good day.  Would have been better had I not bent my front brake rotor on a well hidden tree stump.

Earlier this summer my family went for a Father’s Day hike on Quarry Mountain.  A little way into the hike, my sister and I started looking at the possibility of using the Quarry Mountain trail as a technical downhill ride with an easy double-track approach.

Sam and I rode Quarry Mountain today.  The trail was a lot more narrow and considerably more technical than I remember from the hike.  The trees were dense, the switchbacks were tight, and the terrain was fairly rocky.  It was impossible to pick up much speed, but we made it down without too much trouble.  The whole ride was close to two miles roundtrip and took around a half hour.

Probably not going to race off to ride Quarry Mountain again.  Good ride though.

Sam and I shuttled Little Emigration Trail.  We parked a car at Mormon Flats, drove up to Big Mountain Pass, rode the 4.8 miles of downhill, got back in the car and drove back to the top of Big Mountain Pass.  The downhill was a blast.  A little more technical than usual this early in the season.

Sam at the top of Big Mountain Pass