1. Register for fiver - check 2. New rig to try out at fiver - check 3. Typical BC conditions for a race - check 4. Opportunity to throw in a trials move on slippery rocks - I'm DD, check, dammit! 5. People respecting skills and getting out of the way asap - check! 6. Props for pushing yourself and achieving a respectable finish - awww yeaaah, check! Great seeing the various perspectives from these fiver racers between the Three MTBuskateers. Here's hoping your next one is on a dry course, DD!
Not going to lie… saw Stage 2 on Dale’s version, and immediately thought of you with equal doses of amusement and pity! Kidding aside, you did great. There’s no way I could ride a stage like that, at a way slower pace mind you, without stopping several times. 🤘
Stages like that made me basically quit enduro racing. What is the point of making half a second on some corner or risky line when you lose 30 seconds to cross country rider on the uphill
Hey man hope you are doing great, I love to watch mtb videos and would love to edit videos, are you interested? I could edit a couple of ones to see if you like my editing, Dale Stone told to ask you in case you were interested
Funny watching you pass so many...yet the guy (Nick) you were chatting with early on... seemingly in the way of a wizard....you shall not pass! Haha! Good riding!
What's the exertion coming from when not pedaling? I imagine it's a combination of the following but feel free to correct me: - Getting jostled constantly, making regular breathing hard to focus on - Regularly tensing and releasing almost every muscle to steer - Standing on the pedals rather than sitting down, maybe? - Having to pop front/rear wheel over obstacles
These are all great points. I think another one would be intense exertion when you are pedaling followed by everything you listed without time for recovery.
Yeah, all of that. Personally, I find downhill almost as tiring as uphill, but in a different way. Another excellent rider/RU-vidr and friend of Dave’s is Dale Stone (he was in the yellow shirt in the last moments of this video). He once said he “rests” on the downhills. I cannot relate to that statement. But Dale is in phenomenal shape.
One more thing… in addition to fitness, I’m sure skill also plays a role in how fatigued one feels in the downhills. Exceptionally skilled riders like Dave, Dale and Nic (VanCan in this video) probably don’t tire as easily as a far less skilled and relatively inexperienced rider such as myself. I’m sure I’m far too tense when riding, and that absolutely would fatigue a rider also. Skilled riders would be far less tense and “looser” on the bike.
Long descents are rough if you've just had to ride up a few miles (on just that ascent, plus whatever extra you've done before) to the top and lactic acid has built up in the legs already, you can kinda relax on not too rough, flowy descents if overall energy's not that low but past a certain point, every damn action will have an effect on core, leg and arm muscle strength and will cause more energy depletion (not "rest" as it usually does if easier terrain and not too long). The only cure is the TITS hehe (time in the saddle) and then you get used to it (and incredibly fit as a bonus). Eat your porridge oats in the mornings lads, that would be my main advice.
That endless trail gave me cross country trail running flashbacks where it just. doesn't. ever. end... until it does. But very impressed to see you power through it. I mean afterwards it still looks like everyone had a great time.
As an average rider (and I make this sound WAY better than it is) I think the second trail would be my dream MTB place. The technical difficulties are ... manageable (?) for the average rider, the climbing is just waht it is, but still in a great environment and any ride would take me three or five times longer than your race-.run, but be absolute fun and joy.
Damn, I have the sensation of my heart pounding in my chest watching you, that I get when I'm at my local MTB trails, man I love that feeling. I can't wait to get out there again!
@@lemonadejars and for $4? A fourver? A foury? Lol im just playing but that's a hard one. Cheap races, bicycles worth more than my truck. Lol. I got into backpacking because a walk in the woods is free right? $2500 worth of gear later....but the walk in the woods part was free. Lol.
never had fun in any skiraces i did back in the day. Except for when I didnt care anymore. Thats where I quit racing. Sometimes I was so tense couldnt eat a few hours before. Only fun is the podium and the buzz you take with you for next training. Oh, I still love skiing like nothing else.
You joke but I've seen people close to me completely loose sight of the reasons that started them loving this sport in the first place. There will always be bad days sure, but when you get that feeling of just slogging for nought and it doesn't feel much fun anymore, you got to step back and ask what the driving motivation is. They say "comparison is the thief of joy" and that rings so true sometimes I feel in respect to racing. What started you in the first place to get to the point of enduro racing? for most I'd imagine the reasons are the same, it's super addictive and probably the most fun you have without committing a bunch of major felonies haha. I reckon you are totally on the right track with the freeride stuff, that's the true essence of this amazing sport condensed and can be done anywhere on the globe, anytime, any season with basically any half decent steed. Besides the point a bit as I can totally tell you are having fun anyway. Even if it does not sound like it on cam, what with all the panting and such.
