Saturday Morning Trail Running - SMTR?

My brother, Doug and I have gone to Palos to trail run the last 2 Saturdays to get prepared for the Red Bull Trail Daze.

Our first SMTR, we ran down "Gravity Cavity" and through "3 Ravines" returning via the "Pipeline".  It was about a 5K.

Our 2nd SMTR, we started at the MTB staging area and ran up the singletrack to the main trail and ran the "out and back", well actually just the "out" part of it. We jogged back on the main trail to our single track decent to the parking lot.

This weekend should be fun.  We are not ready.


Oh Yeah, AN ADVENTURE RACE @ PALOS?!

THIS WAS GOING ON THERE THIS MORNING:

Fat Otter Fall Sprint

I can't believe I missed this! Its on the radar for next year for sure!

Endurance Cycling - 140 miles

My next big ride I am planning on doing is from LGP to the Wisconsin border and back.  I have done the ride before, but over the course of 2 days.  This time it will be one epic day of about 140 miles.  The weather is about to take a turn for the worse, so this is going to have to happen in the near future.  I have not been on the bike as much as I should, but I should be able to do it with a few weeks of roller work.

This is a great route composed of almost all trail, mix of paved and crushed limestone.  It is one of the great perks of the Chicago area, the bike infrastructure just keeps growing.  It's remarkable that I can ride to the WI border with only a handful of miles done on roads.

Here is the route, Google Maps has it as at 68.9 miles one way: