(Last Chance?) VQ training

I think I've come up with a pretty good VQ training ride if anyone is looking for one in the next few weeks.

The route:

• Up San Juan Trail from the bottom to Blue Jay (11 miles, 3500ft of climbing)
• Blue Jay up to the top of Trabuco (2.5 miles, 1200ft of climbing)
• Down Trabuco (5.2mi)
• Up Holy Jim (5mi, 2200ft of climbing)
• Down ITT (6.8 miles, 200ft of climbing?)
• Up ITT (6.8mi, 2600ft of climbing)
• Holy Jim over to top of Trabuco (7.5~ miles, totally guessing on climbing around 1500ft?)
• Trabuco down to Blue Jay (1.5mi)
• Blue Jay to San Juan Trail via lollipop loop, and down to start (11 miles, 760ft of climbing)

Total mileage: 58? miles
Total climbing: More than likely around 11,500ft

San Juan:



Trabuco:



Holy Jim:



Indian Truck Trail



San Juan Trail



Happy Trails!

Friendly reminder that for those *not* racing SRC, there are only two more weekends for training! For those of us racing SRC, only one!

 

hmmm sounds fun..... i think if i join, i may just reach Blue Jay by the time you guys are ready to head back down! :lol:

 

Give yourself more credit than that! You'd be halfway down Trabuco jk

 

Would there happen to be a CC training route? Perhaps the same route minus ITT? :lol:

 

Definitely a possibility. Keith and Sarah did it a few weeks ago. I think it wound up being around 46mi and around 8500ft of climbing?

 

Oh yeah!! This is gonna hurt!

 

You know you love it!!!

 

Ah perfect! I may join in depending on the day.

 

when are you planning this ride?

 

We are doing it this weekend, but not as a group training ride. Others are welcome to do the same route, but don't wait up for us

BTW, I don't mean to come off as rude. We're starting basically at first light in the morning, and bringing lights. Our group has a decent/even pace and will stick together, but due to the extreme length of time and difficulty, probably won't be able to ride with others. If you guys get together a group and want to head out that is cool also! It's always nice seeing others on the trail. But, unfortunately we won't have time to be remotely social!

 

We probably won't even be social with each other! It's amazing the silent suffering that can be shared without speaking.

 

I may join!! depends how much I party or drink the night before!!:bang:

 

I have to wash my hair that day, sorry can't do it.

 

And you wonder why I'm afraid of you guys.

 

I think Justin is the only one truly looking forward to it.

But, as I told Steph Saturday.. if we can do this ride, we can do VQ.

 

I'd love to join you for this one, but will be out bikepacking with MTBMaven in an as yet undecided location.... Enjoy!

 

ouch.

 

I'm sure you guys will have a blast as well!! We can compare horror stories when we return :lol:

Our sentiments exactly!

Aside from climbing way more singletrack than VQ, the route is fairly close.

My estimation is probably slightly more than what we'll do at least in once instance. I *highly* doubt anyone will argue with turning around at the ITT gate, which means we'll cut out at least a mile total riding, and probably 100-200ft of climbing :lol:

 

Yes, he is truly maniacal....

 

So he is doing this ride on the socom NICE:bang: