Well it's been hectic, but the dust is starting to clear! Graduate school was a bear, and I had to shut down my training regimen for a while. I was out for several months, gained several pounds, studied a lot and completed my Master's degree. I'm now working on my Ed. S., and have also gotten back on my bike to prep for a big month of racing in August and September. I'm also thinking about racing cyclo-cross this season, but I will see how I feel in September when I'm in my practicum work.
The pictures below are of the Dirt Jump track that we are building; we finished Phase 1 today. It has 8 jumps ranging from 7 feet tall to 3 feet tall, 2 berms ( the first one is 12 foot tall and doubles as a wall ride, and a 40 foot mogul set. The following Phases will include a 12 foot tall DIRT HALF PIPE! A pump track, and a pyramid will be coming also. In the more distant future we will make make bigger jumps! But we are waiting for a few logistics to fall into place.
above we are sculpting the first two jumps, each jump has a table top on the left and a spine on the pro-side The first jump is 7 foot tall and the second is about as tall.
Here is a before picture
Bob is in the bobcat starting to build up dirt mounds to work with. On the far left he has started clearing the woods so that we can come out of the trail network and down the drop-in hill to access the jumps.
Here me and the boys are sculpting the pro side of jump one, as you can see the spine is about 3 ft. The table top side is about 5 feet deep.
Here is a picture of the first two jumps and the first berm, that's me Waaaay back there standing in front of the berm, this might give a perspective of how big it is.
just trying to sculpt the landing side of jump 1
We decided to play a little bit! This kid was digging the jump, and it wasn't even finished
This little guy was getting some good air and Roger is talking about giving some helmets to some of the kids that helped us build. That's a relief because these kids have too much going for them to take a digger on the noggin. I will try and get some pictures of the complete track.
