Oct 25, 2018
Nailed it!!! I’m so stoked. I hit all the lines and didn’t hold anything back. No regret; that’s all I had! I’m really happy with how my riding progressed this weekend. And to lay it all down on race day feels really amazing 😇
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Nailed it!!! I’m so stoked. I hit all the lines and didn’t hold anything back. No regret; that’s all I had! I’m really happy with how my riding progressed this weekend. And to lay it all down on race day feels really amazing 😇
Craziest race of the bike games!! MegaKami is a mass-start flat-out race down the mountain on an access road because why not!! It’s silly fun.
They made us do a different silly start for each category. Ours was the bear crawl. Damn! I'll need to add bear crawl intervals to my winter training program because I lost a lot of time at the start.
I finished 4th out of 15 riders at the Expert & Sport Men start. This race is open to anybody who's crazy enough to sign up!
Sorry for the subpar audio, my external mic failed and I had to salvage the audio from the handlebar camera.
Alright, this was a good weekend of enduro training for the Kamikaze Bike Games. Looking back at the progress made, I feel good about having a set of “safe” lines I can race on (that wasn’t the case Saturday). Now I can keep working on some of the gnarlier main lines and choose whether or not the risk/reward is worth it on race day. It’s a course that will definitely reward the better riders and scar the greedy ones.
The big race is in 3 weeks. I’m practicing some lines. I have work to do! 😬
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Sticking my tongue out Michael Jordan style at last month's Kamikaze Bike Games! 😝
Location: Mammoth Mountain, Mammoth Lakes CA, USA Photo: PB Creative
FINALLY this video is ready! Is this the world-first complete XC race POV video uploaded in 4K 60fps? I think so; I'm going to claim it.
You'll need a good Internet connection to watch this in 4K. If you watch the whole race you'll download a total of 60 GB of data.
It took a lot of work to get this video done. It was pushing the limits of YouTube and Adobe products. It took a few customer support tickets, some workaround hackery and a few (too many) retries of that 12 hours long encoding job. Surprisingly though, the edit in Final Cut Pro was a piece of cake; Apple got their 4K pipeline dialed in.
I hope you enjoy all the pixels! All 8.3 million of them per frame, 60 times per second ☺️
About the racing, read my race report HERE.
Location: Mammoth Mountain, Mammoth Lakes CA, USA Course Map HERE.
Race Report: Pro XC at Kamikaze Bike Games
It was a strange race in the pro category. We were all spread out and racing alone. Nic Beechan won, Ryan Steers got 2nd and Brian Gordon 3rd.
I finished 6th in 01:52:34. I was trying to catch Derek for 5th (and for $50!!), but I was never able to make contact. He’s a beast! He even had enough juice left in his batteries to participate in the eBike race immediately after.
So a lonely race. But at least I had a few expert guys catching me to race with. They had a good pace and it was a lot of fun swapping positions. Great job by them!
But after they finished their 3 laps race, my 4th lap was super lonely. Thankfully I was still feeling good and I decided to drop the hammer and see if I could catch Derek. That last lap was fast! And that’s such a great feeling to be able to push on the final lap — as opposed to dragging your bonking ass across the line. So I’m happy with that race!
I was kinda hoping for a re-match against Larissa Connors this year. She raced with us last year and kicked my ass! But I guess she had other places to be.
The course was a blast! Even without battles for position, it’s engaging to race that course and trying to get master its flow. The dirt wasn’t as loose as it used to be, so it was rolling fast. Technical skills were definitely making a difference there. With plenty of flying single track, up and downs and small rock obstacles all over. To keep your speed you really had to work the bike.
Great race! I did not hold anything back. And I felt it good in my leg the next day at the Endure race.
Watch the whole race from my GoPro HERE.
Location: Mammoth Mountain, Mammoth Lakes CA, USA Course map HERE.
Photo by PB Creative.