The goal was to ride for 6 hours in zone 3 with minimal stops. The place I choose was Snow Bowl here in Missoula. I named my virtual event“Smoking The Bowl” (map).
The climb is about 8 miles with no flat sections, just a long gradual climb. I wanted to see if I could go hard and not cramp at the end of the day. With my new top secret formula I was very successful. When the 6 hour mark had passed it was tough to get stopped. I felt great.
The downhill is one of the finest examples of epic single-track available. It is long and very challenging at times. Today it was pre-season and there were about 50 blow downs and I got to practice jumping on and off of the bike. At one point I snagged my leg warmers and ripped them right off. Epic awesome and almost Butte-100-like day.
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