A few of us headed out to the start of the Ididarod bike race. The race goes from Knik Lake in hick-land, Ak to either McGrath or Nome, depending on how much hurt you are in for. Myself and Tim rode out to Flathorn lake from Knik in what ended up being pretty dismal slow trail conditions with soft soupy snow due to snow-machines and warm temps near freezing. We put quite the hurt on ourselves, but luckily a few more of us had ridden out to Flathorn Lake to set up an impromptu checkpoint where we offered the racers beer, cookies and encouragement.
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Some of these were not crazy loaded down. Some of them were 80lbs more more and hard to get out of the truck (we helped).
Racers/riders starting show up (after the bikes).
Tim and I heading out. Our ride turned out to be closer to 40 miles, and about 25 was hard fought at around 5mph or less average speed due to soft snow. Speed appears to have picked up after our checkpoint at Flathorn Lake according to the trackers. Soon the racers were doing about twice that speed.
Greg Matyas of Faback bikes (center) and Greg Sjoquist of QBP bicycle promotion on the right. Greg Sjoquist was kind of upset that we didn't have any "turns" in our "trails" like in Minnesota. There are plenty of turns in this race, but it's something like 350 miles and not a "weave through the forest" kind of ride. Hopefully he gets some time on our trails in Anchorage. Plenty of tight stuff to jam your bars on for days.
Greg just making sure his pupils aren't dilated.
We were told there was a bonfire happening. When we got there, no bonfire. We pretended. I brought cookies and peanut butter cups though...everyone brought beer.
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One of the racers, Clint Hodges. His SO rode out with us to wish him luck.
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Yes. That is a foes. Wouldn't be my first choice, but not because it's a foes.
Some of these were not crazy loaded down. Some of them were 80lbs more more and hard to get out of the truck (we helped).
Racers/riders starting show up (after the bikes).
Tim and I heading out. Our ride turned out to be closer to 40 miles, and about 25 was hard fought at around 5mph or less average speed due to soft snow. Speed appears to have picked up after our checkpoint at Flathorn Lake according to the trackers. Soon the racers were doing about twice that speed.
Greg Matyas of Faback bikes (center) and Greg Sjoquist of QBP bicycle promotion on the right. Greg Sjoquist was kind of upset that we didn't have any "turns" in our "trails" like in Minnesota. There are plenty of turns in this race, but it's something like 350 miles and not a "weave through the forest" kind of ride. Hopefully he gets some time on our trails in Anchorage. Plenty of tight stuff to jam your bars on for days.
Greg just making sure his pupils aren't dilated.
We were told there was a bonfire happening. When we got there, no bonfire. We pretended. I brought cookies and peanut butter cups though...everyone brought beer.
Foes guy
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One of the racers, Clint Hodges. His SO rode out with us to wish him luck.
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