Another gorgeous morning of Berkeley dirt

Mt Diablo climing

First NICA practice

Lunch Ride

KT friday!

The Berkeley High School NICA team is about 100 riders strong - so for day one, we split into three four groups; one for the new riders (that includes West) who will do games and team building and skill sorting, and then three heats for a time trial (which they call "a scramble”) that will help sort out ride groups for the season.  I’m in the third wave, led by Coach Mike. The student athletes are awesome and friendly and so are the coaches. Easy pedal up Euclid to Tilden park; then the time trial - 800 feet of vertical climbing a rocky fire road to Volmer peak. Line them up like a proper NICA race - 5 wide and 5 deep - and count down to go. Pretty brutal way to start the season off, but maybe a good place to set some baselines for progress.  

Hot and sweaty turns into cold an shivering at the top as we gather for group discussions and planning. Then a lot of discussion about potential further riding…Tilden is the least friendly of the parks to bikers, there’s oner “single track” and a lot of fire roads, and its gorgeous sunday sunshine, so everybody is out walking their dogs. Pretty hard to bring a crew of 30 mountain bikes without making a few people annoyed.

I get to lead out the south park singletrack descent, since the rule is that a coach needs to go first. Fun and fast.

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Another gorgeous morning of Berkeley dirt

Mt Diablo climing

First NICA practice

Lunch Ride

KT friday!

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