Beaver dam to New light MTB race.

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:04 pm

Anyone racing sunday? I might go watch for a bit. I am not in 30 mile mtb race shape at the moment.

http://torc-nc.org/2013/02/beaver-dam-a ... ight-race/

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:17 pm

Might get postponed due to the rain but I don't think we had enough (1/4" or so) to close the trails.

The last lap on South Loop is going to be painful.

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Any thought about the BD/NL race this weekend? Will it be on or not due to weather

I'll be posting up later today as to whether we're on or postponing until the 2-24 rain date.

Steve

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:32 pm

A decent portion is road. I don't think it will be too bad. I seriously considered going.

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:41 pm

The road is going to be the recovery in a way, especially based on how rocky New Light is. Right now, BD is closed. Bummer.

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:30 pm

Dang and I was thinking about hitting BD on Saturday for a light ride. oh well, crabtree it is....

MarcusMcRae · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:41 pm

I keep forgetting to congratulate Mathew for taking 5th overall.

Nice work!

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

Have you mountain biking people ever explored the trails around the Danville airport? Granted I'm a runner, so I don't need as much distance to the trails as you bikers do, but I went for a great run there Friday after setup this past week. I have decided I LOVE running on mountain bike trails, its a lot more fun than pounding out miles on the road.

Basically, if you go back past the airport office you eventually find an extension of the Riverwalk trail system from Danville and there are 4 or 5 trails that criss cross it. I've never seen the places you are talking about in this thread, but I run Crabtree all the time, and these were much more nicely maintained (and actually open). Lots of obstacles/bridges/jumps designed specifically for MTB's. Just thought I'd mention it in case you've never explored them. Unfortunately this will be the last event we have in Danville for a while at the beginning of March. I wish I'd have discovered them sooner.

Matt McGrain · **Posted:** Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:47 pm

MarcusMcRae wrote:

I keep forgetting to congratulate Mathew for taking 5th overall.

Nice work!

Thanks Marky-Marcus!

Brice, those are the Angler's Ridge trails and although I haven't ridden them, they're supposed to be awesome. They actually do races out there annually and the 6-hr race draws some tough competition from all over. I saw your post about getting a nine miler in (nice work!) and wondered if you ran on those.

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:47 pm

I've ridden AR a bunch...it is a great trail system. Not as fast and flowy as Warrior Creek, but still very fun. Some decent climbs here and there, but nothing too brutal, certainly. The "Witchback" trail has the "worst" climbing of the trails over there, but it's still fun, too.

It's worth a road trip for triangle folks looking for something different.

--Donnie

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