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"Wow! this was much tougher than I thought it would be, this ride burned the legs."
TacoBeer
To get to the starting line of this ride, from the Dreamy Draw parking lot, go up the ramp which leads up to the picnic tables, continue up the sidewalk past by the restrooms, and up to the big sidewalk. Go southwest for 1/4 mile and you will see a Trail sign on the left, this is the start of the TT. I was holding onto the sign, pressed my start button on the GPS and started.
This is a standing start, follow the trail straight ahead for maybe 20 yards and you'll bear right into a wash, as you come up out of the wash on the other side bear left and that is the main 1A trail that you will keep ascending to the summit. It used to be an old jeep road that you stay on all the way to the ultimate summit. After you summit, keep on 1A and descend to where 1A meets T100. Come to a complete stop at the brown marker post marker on T100, stop recording your time.
This ride, according to rubiTrack (which uses Elevation Correction from the raw GPS file) says that this 0.92 mile ride has 216 feet of Ascent, and 83 feet of Descent for a total elevation of 299 feet.
I rode this TT2 this morning in order to get the updated GPS data, and completed it in 8 min 3 sec total time, (I had 15 seconds off the bike on the penultimate peak and this time needs to be included - not my 7:48 moving time), there was a rock mess that I wasn't comfortable riding over. I definitely won't be the fastest, and hopefully not the slowest. I mention this because many people have their GPS's set to only record moving time, but these TT's count ALL time.
The results are displayed down at the bottom of the page.
Remember:
- Your time for the TT is the full amount of time from when you start to when you cross the finish line. Make sure you are reporting stopped time as this is included too, we are not only considering moving time.
- Feel free to post a link to your GPS route in the comments section.
Disclaimer
The Time Trial Challenges on this site are intended to be for fun. Please don't push yourself so hard that you put yourself at risk, or try to ride beyond your ability and crash. Additionally, please be respectful to other riders, hikers, and equestrians. MTB riders must yield to all others and yield to other MTB riders who are on the uphill ride. I ride with an IncrediBell so that I can alert hikers that I'm coming, they hear the bell far sooner than they would otherwise hear me. And it weighs a whopping 31 grams so even a weight weenie shouldn't have issue with it.
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Does the starting line for TT2 1A still exist? I looked for it yesterday but couldn't find anything that looked like what is pictured. I ended up riding it from the trail that goes in by the sign. I did't even push it that hard and my legs were still burning at the top.
ReplyDeletembodde77 - The park service shut down the starting line! Can you believe it! It would seem that the leg the TT started on wasn't an official trail and they closed it.
ReplyDeleteJust this morning I re-rode the TT with the GPS to record a slightly modified route starting at the Trail Sign about 30 yards back towards the Dreamy Draw parking lot.
Oops, I went for another run today at TT2 Mine Trail and up near the top before the sharp left, on the really steep section I thought I'd leave it in a higher gear and stand up and power up that section, but as soon as I stood up I completely lost traction and came to a quick halt.
ReplyDeleteWhoops - I knew my rear was near end of life, guess I'll wait until I get a new tire on to try again. I'm determined to get under the 8 minute mark on this TT.