Bonelli Express

The Team of Tri Events put in lots of hard work and it showed as their race this past Saturday was a blast for all. They gave away more free raffle schwag than I ever seen. Anywhere. Corey of Coates donating most of it. Chip timing and they already have results up with splits and that's always a treat. I knew Jodi was first female but not 6th over all!(women started in the last last wave) She layed it down! My trusty steed here provided me with the fastest bike split of the day carrying me from 10th out of the water to 1st into the bike/run transition. I had company pretty quick though and hung as long as I could with the young gun.. Then the "21" on his calf got smaller and smaller. And that was just fine. He had to work for it as he saw "51" in front of him for many pain-inducing and lactate producing minutes........ That was another fun race!

Challenging, rugged and beautiful.

Trained hard efforts with only quality miles this past month . Then tapered and included leg work(massage) Thursday. Virtually no activity yesterday ( except body work on others). Showed up fresh and went hard today. Not much air @ 8700' so that with steep inclines, needed every fast and slow twitch muscle fibers to be firing on all cylinders. Had company on the climb on bike, but was able to pull away on the run to gap 2nd place by three minutes. I have not gone THAT hard(or felt THAT pain) in sometime. Jodi did not know what to expect(but it's labeled HAC, or High Altitude Challenge) so she had some inclination!
My goal was to go 100%, race smart, and hope for no mishaps. That recipe delivered and an overall win was the result. Jodi was the first female to cross the line. Ole and his team, and Corey of Coates Cyclery simply provided an awesome event. For those of you who missed it: You missed it!

Pre Race

Mt. Baldy hurt-fest in two days. Fish taco's, an O'douls and leg work(massage) on the menu tonite. Leg's should be fresh and spunky come Sat. But after the climb on the bike and then run up another 1500' to the 8600' mark, the descent is steep and quad busting. I intend on holding nothing back. I will be damaged after, but then again, that's why we keep a massage table up like a piece of furniture!! Hope to see many there!!!!!

Race this Saturday

Looking forward to the lung burning climbs of Mt. Baldy this Saturday. Hopefully lot's of you will be attending. It's a challenging and fun event. Come on up and rock and roll!!!!

One more desert gem............

When we go off road behind our Tiki Villa, we ride, grind, push and carry mtn. bikes over some fun, beautiful, challenging terrain. Then we drop bikes, run and explore. This split in the earth was about a half mile long. Then got too steep and we had to turn back. (that and the bat's flying were a little eerie too :)

Leave the power meters at home!

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Upcoming camp pre runs

We will providing some day long mini camps in our desert arena this fall. A day of fun, strength building training, and then some more training. BBQ, look over video and be home in one day. An experience. Once in a lifetime at that. Have an awesome time and learn from the best. Lot's more to come. Stay tuned. And huge improvement you will experience. That and fun can't be beat.

Epic. Simply epic training.

San Andrea's Fault Line, one mile behind our park. Today we mountain biked 5 hard miles. dropped bikes, ran a gnarly 2 miles. Repeated 4 x's. Came out to actually 20 miles on the bikes, 8 miles running. All on beautiful landscaped unspoiled mother natured desert trails, fireroads, dunes and caves. We all stayed together. A solid 10. E ticket. Epic. And we are stronger from it. The best part of it all??? We video cammed and watched back at mobile over BBQ and bests out any crap showing on TV right now. We were laughing, hooting, high fiving. We are blessed and fortunate.

Quad busting climbs in the desert

We know where the secret spots are out there behind our Tiki mobile home. Secret meaning, only we seem to know of it, and we've gotten to know it well. San Andrea's Fault line, the earth and formation's there are out of this world. Huge fun. Huge exploration. Challenging training. We would like to share it with a certain few this fall when it cool's down. We are used to the heat. Acclimated. Most would crack right now. But if you didn't you can handle anything after this.