Jeff's Sporting Life: SingleTrack 6 MTB XC Race 2015: Stage 4 @ Myra Bellevue, Kelowna‏ BC

Wednesday July 29th, I finished 48th place out of 50 in Solo Open Men Results, It took me 5hrs 25mins, It was a total of 43 Kms. Total elevation gain 4,944 Feet. My average heart rate was 145 bpm and max was 180 bpm. The temperature was 31 deg C sunny with a few clouds. Check out my garmin data here. We started right out of the gate with a eight km long climb on single track trails. Then we hit the five km timed descent where the trails were fast and flowy. Then after that we did another eight km climb on different single track technical trails. Once at the top we descended for the next ten km's. To finish up the day we climbed back up another five km's. The trails were filled with lots of rock slabs and loose dry dirt. There was some really steep down hill and up hill sections where I had to run down and up because I knew I could not ride them. I did ride some steep descents that I did not think I could ride. My right knee is very bruised and it was getting really sore with every pedal stroke today, It happened on day one when I wiped out. I had to battle out there as I was in so much pain. I did not want to quit, but just grind it out. The views were spectacular at the top of the mountain looking over Lake Okanagan. There was a deer on the trail today. A huge thanks to Transrockies for putting on the race and to all the volunteers for their effort to help make this bucket list dream come true.