REGISTRATION is again OPEN
As of 3/6 we have 25 team spots left.

Williamsburg!

Erinna and I are in Williamsburg, VA visiting the family and we just got in from an excellent road+ ride: Mill Pond->Field Stone->Six Mount Zion->Mount Laurel->Ware Creek->Croaker->Riverview. Mt.Laurel/Ware Creek is a one lane olllllllld ribbon of pavement through corn fields and past old farmhouses. Beautiful riding. I guess it reminds someone of someplace else:

Then we went into York River State Park and hit one of the mountain bike trails there (I didn't catch the name but it was about 2 miles). Of note, this was the first ride Erinna and I have been on together since she was about 5 months pregnant! Anyway, it was a ton of fun riding the road bikes back in the woods.

Erinna even commented 'Tell me again why mountain bikes have flat bars?' Yes, I too want a drop-bar off-road bike... After a quick detour to look at the river...

we left the park then rode: Riverview->Croaker->Ware Creek. Rather than turning onto Mt. Laurel we hit the gravel road portion of Ware Creek.

We are definitely mountain-bikers on road bikes, again the road chosen was the roughest. It actually had a few hills! Then back to Six Mount Zion and back to my Mom's neighborhood. Great ride with my sweetie in my hometown!

runclub

Yesterday afternoon I got out for a little runclub training. I took the same route as the last time: Hanover->State (up to/past pro-bikes)->Haywood->Ridgelawn->Wellington->State->Hanover (3mi 250' climbing )with Sophiedog. I didn't feel as fast as last time but I didn't walk at all. Sophie sure wished I had walked some. She wasn't feeling it after mile 2.
sunny skies, temps in the low 30's, and there is still a bunch of snow and ice on the ground here in West Asheville.

Pisgah 36 is back ON!!!!

We'll see you crazies on April 2-3-4!!!
Registration is again open at active.com

Biltmore in the winter

Picture this: I'm sitting down with baby Zoe over my shoulder, burping her, and trying to one-hand-type-out a quick description of today's ride... Here goes:
DjD, Sophiedog, and I got out today for a very fast spin around the Biltmore trails.


Black->Blue->Green. The trails were either the consistency of peanut butter or covered with 2 inches of snow. The only other tracks out there were those of one hiker, his/her dog, and loads of deer. The deer tracks were fun to spot because they took every other easy line through the woods than the trail we were following.
Black was a fast warm-up full of quick ups and downs, sudden turns, switchbacks, roots, rocks, and I thought I may lose my cafeteria lunch.


Blue was fast, fun, and flowy. Woody trails at their finest.
Green had the one hill that I couldn't clean and was over in a flash.
We were headed to Arbor Trace next but turned around because of the Antler Hill Village construction. I had time constraints and getting into and out of that area, twice, would have eaten up too much time.
Great after-work ride on a frozen (24*) and sunny day in Western North Carolina.

It is with great regret that we at Pisgah Productions must announce:
The 2010 Pisgah 36 will be postponed until further notice. After this weekends snow storm the course, as approved by the forest service, is unsafe and must be reworked and re-approved.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and are willing to offer a refund to any team that feels this is unfair or unjustified.
Once a reworked, rescheduled, re-approved permit is in our hands, and the 2010 Pisgah 36 is back on, we will contact each team with that information.

runclub

3 miles 250 feet climbing fast! fast! fast!
hanover->state->haywood->pastwellington->state->hanover
listening to my M.I.A. pandora station the entire time and feeling pumped.
32* and sunny