This past weekend was the main event of our fall race season: The Carpe Diem Mountain Bike Festival! It was better than we could have expected. There was a kids race, the regular AMBCS series races, 3 live bands (5th & River, Damn Bullets, and Starroy), plenty of food (including a pizza from Za-Za's straight out of a portable wood-fired oven), New Belgium Brew, vendors, drum circle, and just lots of fun! Oh, and did I mention I was in charge of laying out the course & the kids race?
We had something like 15 kids for the kids race. Most were between about age 5-8, but we had 1 or 2 that were 9 or 10 and of course Thomas, who is 2, was definitely the youngest. Check out how little Maddie is on the start compared to all those other kids! That didn't stop her from making her move right off the start though to try to win the sprint into the tight twisty singletrack in the woods.
Both the kids did great! Maddie rode the whole trail like a seasoned veteran to the cross-country race scene. And Thomas rode all the down-hills on his pedal-less balance bike so fast that Amanda had to run to keep up with him. She said he was just bouncing from rock-to-rock but never tipped over! We'll get that boy some pedals for Christmas and he'll be pedaling a regular bike with no training wheels before he's 3!
It was also really cool how we laid out the course and the stage. We had the racers make their laps by riding right by the stage! You could here the music for much of the race in the woods. That was an experience unlike any bike race we've ever had!
We had something like 15 kids for the kids race. Most were between about age 5-8, but we had 1 or 2 that were 9 or 10 and of course Thomas, who is 2, was definitely the youngest. Check out how little Maddie is on the start compared to all those other kids! That didn't stop her from making her move right off the start though to try to win the sprint into the tight twisty singletrack in the woods.
Both the kids did great! Maddie rode the whole trail like a seasoned veteran to the cross-country race scene. And Thomas rode all the down-hills on his pedal-less balance bike so fast that Amanda had to run to keep up with him. She said he was just bouncing from rock-to-rock but never tipped over! We'll get that boy some pedals for Christmas and he'll be pedaling a regular bike with no training wheels before he's 3!
It was also really cool how we laid out the course and the stage. We had the racers make their laps by riding right by the stage! You could here the music for much of the race in the woods. That was an experience unlike any bike race we've ever had!
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