5x Downhill Bike 2x Mountain Bike

Big ramp-up week. Seven rides totaling 143 km — up from 86 km last week (+66%). Time on the bike more than doubled to 13h17 from 5h32.

Monday and Tuesday kicked things off with a pair of trail rides — Buttertubs on Wednesday at a steady 12 km with 361 m of climbing, and an earlier session on Monday covering 17 km across flatter terrain. Then Thursday and Friday turned into a bike-park block.

Thursday night was a friendly downhill race, the last of the August weekly series. It was a great way to get a feel for this weekend’s enduro. Especially since I haven’t raced a mountain bike since university and have never raced purely downhill.

Saturday was another 32 km day in the park before Sunday’s Mt Washington Enduro race, the anchor event of the week.