Having been off the bike for most of the summer, I decided to finally check out the FOCF fundraiser - The Friday Night Super D Series on the LLMT trail in Capitol Forest. The Little Larch Mountain Trail is a new human powered trail in Capitol Forest being built by FOCF and friends. It is currently about 1/2 way completed. As a human powered trail, it has been built and designed with flow and fun in mind. Lightly technical in a few sections and mostly just fast and bermy with lots of little drops and jumps - it has really evolved into a great little light duty dh trail for trail bikes. Super rad. Last Friday was my first race. I showed up last Friday with Jagger for a total end of the week burn out beat down. Feeling the rust in my mojo I came in at 6:07 - top 5 I think. This Friday was the double down. Two runs for the price of one. My first run I struck a pedal trying to pedal through a little rock garden and took a full-on high speed endo into the bushes. Awesome. 6:07. My second run I managed to keep it together and finished 5:59. Getting better. Having ridden the trail a few times now, and shaken off some of the rust I look forward to maybe racing the final race this Friday. Wish I hadn't been so distracted from the bike this summer and checked these races out sooner. The crew running them is doing a great job, some funds are being raised for FOCF and a cool local's only race scene is being fostered every Friday night, for one more week.
http://fridaynightsuperd.blogspot.com/
Jagger throws it down in Oakridge in about 12 hours. Looking forward to the race report.
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