Durango Devo Velo Swap May 23rd!
20% goes to Durango DEVO so it helps us keep kids on bikes.
Drop off is Thur May 22nd 3-8pm at the La Plata County fairgrounds
Swap is Fri May 23rd 10am-10pm
Pick up of items not sold is Sat May 24th 5-8pm
New gear and donations are always welcome.
Contact Info:
Annie Cheeney
Director Durango DEVO
970-764-5758
annie@durangodevo.com
I guess I have to call it training, even though I despise formal training. Yesterday we went to ride the passes in preparation for the Iron Horse road race and crit. It was 40F at Purgatory with wet roads, Coal Bank and Molas passes were covered in clouds with fresh snow at about 9300 ft. We bailed and instead did a mountain bike tour of Durango including Animas Mountain, Test Tracks and Horse Gulch / Telegraph. Sunday was a different story with great beautiful spring weather. The Durango Wheel Club hosted training criteriums at the new Mercy Medical Center Regional hospital.
The 2008 Durango South Rim Duathlon is hosted by Durango Parks and Rec. This year it consisted of a kids race, short course and long course.
The short course included a 2.5 mile run and a 6 mile bike section. The long course consisted of a 6 mile run and 18 miles of mountain biking (3 laps of the 6 mile run course).
The course was along the South Rim trail, a part of the greater Telegraph Trail System built by Trails 2000 and included fun twisty singletrack, short climbs (longest at 4 minutes) and one long muddy downhill down the Big Canyon trail.
We finished up 2nd in the 35 under team category with a 2:12, about 3.5 minutes out of first.
Overall Race Results:
Dan Ourada won the 19-34 age group (2:01.17).
Shonny Vanlandingham won the women’s (2:07:23). Kristin Danielson was second (2:29:30).
I survived the 2008 super sandy Alien Run, ended up 6th. It was not pretty. i ended up with a flat tire on the back side of the Alien course, caused by running over a few too many cacti in a dizzy anaerobic state. My Big Air cartridge came through and allowed me to fill up 3X to make it home. Travis B took the pro class win with Zach Shriver in a close 2nd. $30 still gets you a race entry, t-shirt and a bar-b-que lunch, old school mountain bike style. More races should be managed like the Alien Run. ms
The “Alien Run at Hart Canyon” is a mountain bike trail that was developed by private citizens, Al & Deral Saiz along with two other brothers and various friends, all residents of Aztec. The trail was designed in response to the Friends of the Aztec Library’s call for a mountain bike rally as a possible fund-raiser during Aztec UFO99. These brothers responded to that call and designed the trail that circles the “alleged” crash site in Hart Canyon and is located on BLM Land . A special use permit was applied for but the proper studies that needed to be done for BLM clearance had not been done. The July 2000 issue of New Mexico Magazine, featured a story on the trail as well as the local paper, The Daily Times. There have been inquiries from as far away as Hawaii , New York , and Montana , who accessed this information via the Aztec Library’s Web Page
Alien Run is a 25+- MTB single-track and oil-field road mountain bike ride in Aztec, New Mexico.
The ride is named after the fabled Hart Canyon UFO Crash site. Little green men - or women, whomever you prefer.
The ride / race course is accessed through Aztec New Mexico. We started at the Aztec Motocross track for about 8 miles of Mountain View trail before we got to the Alien run trailhead. From there it was an 8 mile loop. Sandy, twisty singletrack with some slickrock then back to the moto track via Mtn View. Total ride time about 2.75 hrs easy with breaks.
Colin Osborn, BikeParts.com team rider and Fort Lewis College student, has a sweet blog. check it out.
link: http://www.colinosborn.com/
Action Line
I made the Durango Herald with my inquiry about the Bike Path Punji Stick of Death. Article Follows.
Link to Article on the Durango Herald website
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What’s the deal with the metal punji stick along the Animas River Trail behind the fire station? I don’t think the blue paint covering the tip is going to stop anyone from getting skewered. Does it have a purpose? Can the city remove it? - Matt Smith
But you can view an excellent, and now historic, photo called “Durango Bike Path Punji Stick of Death” at the following link: tinyurl.com/2lljvh.
The pole was installed decades ago to show the location of the underground water line serving the Crestview area, whose residents hate it when Action Line calls their neighborhood Tupperware Heights.
Nowadays, the city uses special sensors to locate waterlines, but it will hold on to the Bike Path Punji Stick of Death just in case.
“We might have to reinstall it along the blind curve behind Albertsons as a way to encourage speeding bikers to slow down,” Metz joked.
2008 Fort Lewis College Squawker Classic, Durango, CO
I headed down to the downtown crit today and watched the A race. 50 degrees and windy, typical spring mountain riding weather.
Dave Hagen, FLC cycling top dog, works like crazy to put on great events and run a solid race team with over 10 National Championship victories. http://cycling.fortlewis.edu/
Celebrity sightings included Alex, Colorado School of Mines student, cycling team member and highly valued BikeParts.com/Peak Cycles shop employee. Troy Wells and Steve Owens were also spotted.
Troy Wells with tha Bling Bling glasses.
Steve Owens from Colorado Premier Training http://www.ColoradoPremierTraining.com/
