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Pan Am Continental Mountain Bike Championships 3/17-22

Tuesday – arrived in Chile at Hotel La Posada late morning and, lo and behold, look who walks in the door – Lars Tribus! It was cool meeting him for the first time and talking with him about – what else? – biking!! (Lars is 5X Masters World Podium, ’03 Masters World Champion). Two local dudes pulled in as we were building our bikes up and said they and Chris VanDine were going to do some runs – did we want to go with them? So we ended up doing 6 practice runs cold turkey. VanDine said that the first run “you are going to be hating life, but every run after that is going to be sweet!” I missed that run and just went straight into having a sweet time.
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Keyesville DH & Trials – March 14 & 15

Boy is trials different from DH! It’s like golf on a bike except it doesn’t require just one ball! It is the tactition’s event -being able to analyze the course and then perform with lots of distractions- like someone standing right next to you talking to you. I haven’t figured out the nutrition yet, either. Everyone in the sport class tanked after even a small lunch. You need a lot of patience and focus. It was really fun though, and I can’t wait to do it again.
8th out of 15.

The Keyesville downhill was a fun relaxed event. Small bikes, good friends, and number plates. In the end it’s a good thing the pro-line (over the grass that wasn’t taped off) wasn’t penalized they thought they’d do at the last minute. Off to Chile!
Results TBA.

-GP