Echo Red to Red

From Echo Red 2 Red

Last weekend(sat) was Echo Red to Red a mountain bike race around the city of Echo, Oregon. Echo is a very small town about 3 1/2 hrs east of Portland. The terrain, is dry, rocky mountain bike single track, lots of rocks and spiky tire puncture things in the fields. This race is 28miles of pure pain with quite a few climbs and some fast descents.
We headed at to the race at an ungodly hour of 6am, meeting my friends Alan and Dylan to share the car journey. The 3 hr drive went smooth, got to Echo, registered, set up, all good to go. The day was gorgeous, high temperatures which was unheard of for early march, sun was out, all was good.

Strudles, Snow, Jawbones, Donut saucing ... all in Feb?

• Feb is the time for frozen strudles from Trader Joes. I love these things sweet joy, baby joy in the oven. Look how good they are:- and yes, if you ride your bike everyday, you can eat a lot of them. Maybe 5 or 6 a week!! Good with icecream, any except ghastly peanut butter.

Riding slow is not so bad, or is it?

OK. A new thing for me, took a lot of courage.
Nice warmish night, clear, no rain. 10pm... bike ride, Portland waterfront!

Here's the spec...
Average Speed = 12.3mph,
Distance = 12.8miles
Time = Over an Hour!
Oh and the critical thing Average Heart Rate = 114..yup I was close to sleeping on the bike. I almost fell off the bike several times because I forgot what I was doing.

Happy Happy Joy Joy