Monday Family Club Ride. Meet at the Orem Mad Dog location at 6pm. From there we will head up the Provo Canyon Trail. Please come prepared with a helmet for everyone.
Tuesday Road Team Skills Session. Meet at the Orem Mad Dog location at 6pm. Come prepared to learn and have fun.
Wednesday Weekly Race Series at Sundance.
Thursday Group Ride. Meet at the Orem Mad Dog location at 5:30pm. The tentative plan is trials around Provo Canyon.
Draper
Corner Canyon, site of the Draper ICUP race, offers some of the best trails around. This years course took advantage of their great single track. Aside from the road section, just there to spread things out a bit, the entire course is groomed single track. With a water crossing thrown in for the spectators. This is always a popular race based on its location and, of course, the trails. Monday was no exception, huge fields in all categories. Unfortunately this presents a bit of a challenge: passing. I've been doing this for a while and think I've gotten this one down. Not that I'm fast by any means, just on the course longer than most. Passing other groups and lap traffic isn't the problem. Trying to get position within my group is hard. As a whole the Expert Men 30 - 39 category is huge and fast. Then there are the really fast, in order to race with them you have to be able to see the front of the pack. Coming into the race I new I had to go out fast in order to get a decent spot in the line that would form ascending toward the road. By accident I started on the front line, along with twenty others. I ended up farther back than I wanted and couldn't tell for sure where I was. The younger group caught up and mixed in along the road section. I felt I was riding fast passing others here and there throughout the lap. As we started the second lap the group I was in started to pull away. I tried repeatedly to catch a wheel, it didn't happen. My legs were gone. I thought about quitting, but where's the fun in that. I kept spinning and enjoyed the ride while the rest of my group, and a few others, passed me by. I finished the race, which felt more like a group ride, and went the annual team picnic. It's always fun to hang out with the team, their like an extension to my family.
-- Carson Chynoweth
More pics form the race
Team Points
-- Carson Chynoweth
More pics form the race
Team Points
National Trails Day
Meeting Time and Location: Saturday June 5th 8:00 a.m. Pine Hollow Trailhead up American Fork Canyon.
Logistical Considerations: Please car-pool to the trailhead to limit unnecessary congestion. The booth will be notified of the volunteer project. Please let them know that you are there for the National Trails Day event and they will waive your fee for the time you are working on the project. This will only apply to those vehicles parked at Pine Hollow trailhead and Salamander Flat. We will be working close to the trailheads from either end so bringing bikes is not necessary.
Project Description: We will be working on the lower section of the Pine Hollow Trail. Once we meet we will break off into two main groups. One group will start at the bottom of the trail and work up, the other half will go to Salamander Flat and work down. We will be focusing on brushing, tread work (to remove slough and berm and fill in ditching tread) and drainage. Ultimately we will end up with two brushing crews and two tread crews.
Please come prepared with: Long pants, long sleeve shirt, leather gloves, sturdy closed toe shoes, sunglasses (for eye protection) water and snacks. If you have loppers or hand saws you may want to bring them.
Logistical Considerations: Please car-pool to the trailhead to limit unnecessary congestion. The booth will be notified of the volunteer project. Please let them know that you are there for the National Trails Day event and they will waive your fee for the time you are working on the project. This will only apply to those vehicles parked at Pine Hollow trailhead and Salamander Flat. We will be working close to the trailheads from either end so bringing bikes is not necessary.
Project Description: We will be working on the lower section of the Pine Hollow Trail. Once we meet we will break off into two main groups. One group will start at the bottom of the trail and work up, the other half will go to Salamander Flat and work down. We will be focusing on brushing, tread work (to remove slough and berm and fill in ditching tread) and drainage. Ultimately we will end up with two brushing crews and two tread crews.
Please come prepared with: Long pants, long sleeve shirt, leather gloves, sturdy closed toe shoes, sunglasses (for eye protection) water and snacks. If you have loppers or hand saws you may want to bring them.
