{"id":9457,"date":"2017-04-06T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2017-04-06T07:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:34:18","slug":"moab-rocks-stage-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=9457","title":{"rendered":"Moab Rocks Stage Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the midst of everything happening in my previous post, I participated in my first bike race of the 2017 season. After competing in 6-7 day stage races in the past with Breck Epic and Trans-Sylvania, the three day Moab Rocks<\/a> race felt pretty manageable. My results were solidly mid-pack, but it was a hell of a pack<\/a> out there. Matt and I made a daily race report recording for Mountain Bike Radio that you can listen to here: Moab Rocks Recaps<\/a><\/p>\n

The basic gist, if you’re not the listening type, is that I need to work on my longer power output efforts- days 1 and 3 began with ~15 miles of climbing, and I felt pretty flat (finished 10th both days). However, day 2 was less sustained and more punchy, and I was able to pull off an 8th place finish. I was very consistent with my power over the 3 days, though, which is a nice affirmation of my base training, as well as my ability to pace myself, recover between stages, and push myself when I start to feel the previous days’ efforts.<\/p>\n

The only dark spot of the entire weekend was some jackass with a backpack speaker. Every day, we was someplace in the pack close enough to me that I listened to a lot of really terrible music being broadcast across the desert. In case you, the reader, don’t know this already- the only person who enjoys listening to music from your backpack is YOU. EVERYONE ELSE HATES YOU AND THINKS YOU’RE A SELF-CENTERED PIECE OF GARBAGE.\u00a0If you’re the type of person who can’t stand the thoughts in your own head, GET HEADPHONES. I also watched the same guy ride through cryptobiotic soil<\/a>\u00a0in order to make a pass on two out of three stages, so he obviously needs to trip and fall in to a pile of fire ants.<\/p>\n

I digress.<\/p>\n

Other than “that guy” the race was pretty great. Moab is a special, awesome place. I want to make a trip there in the fall to try White Rim in a Day as well as the Whole Enchilada (the highest I’ve gone into the latter is Upper Porc Rim).<\/p>\n

In bike news, hopefully I’ll have a new singlespeed build going on pretty soon. I sold the Mach 6, so I’ve got some cash to budget towards making a sick race sled this season. More on that as it happens, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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