Jeff's Sporting Life: SingleTrack 6 MTB XC Race 2016: Stage 2 @ Fernie Alpine Resort, BC

Sunday July 24th, I finished 44th place out of 49 in Solo Open Men Results, and in the timed descent I was 184th out of 198 overall solo men Results. It took me 3hrs & 40mins, It was a total of 34 Kms. Total elevation gain 4,834 Feet. My average heart rate was 158 bpm and max was 180 bpm. Check out my garmin data Here.

The night before I had dinner at the Northern with some friends Trevor P, Michelle E, Stew H, Mike K & his wife. Today I started out pretty well on the opening climb and I had good cadence. Then we crossed the creek and there was a long rolling section with wet roots and it took a lot of power to get over them as there was a couple I couldn't muscle over. Then there was a longer really steep climb that I had to walk up at the tail end of it. That led us to the timed descent where the first portion of it I struggled as there was drops and rocks, the latter part of it I did ok. The next climb was a steep longer one and I made it up that ok and the descent after was so much fun. It took us to a bridge crossing where it was almost like we were in a tropical forest as I have never seen trees like that and the switch back climb was great. The final climb was steep and at the end of it I had to walk the last one km of it as the rocks were wet. The descent to the finish was so much fun. My arms were sore from all the down hills.

The temperature was 28 deg C. A huge thanks to Transrockies for putting on the race and to all the volunteers for their efforts. I stayed at Park Place Lodge and it was great.