amazing ride...

It's been a crazy month!

The Feb 21st MTB Duathlon at Hensley Lake was a resounding success! 68 athletes braved the rain for the first-year event, and had a great time! pics are here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/trithisfresno/ and look for 'hensleyduathlon' pics - including all of our preparation, camping etc. not too many from the race yet due to the fact that I was pretty busy during the actual race! I'm still catching up on sleep.

We didn't really make much money from the race but did make some great infrastructure improvements (great walkie-talkies for future events), and it really was a high-quality event! Complete with bike racks borrowed from another local race organizer, a well-marked course map, about 60 volunteers over two days thanks to the Disney Give a Day, Get a Day program, and a dozen of my students were up there too. We rented a 12 passenger van and then provided a shuttle service from the parking lots to the trailhead on race day, a 26 foot van was rented from Penske, awesome gray long sleeve t-shirts with a cool logo too, very professional awards (medals three deep in 2 age categories per gender/race.) Even 8 kids showed up to race which was great!

This week is taking it easy, next week is back to practice again!