GU Brew Recovery Drink 03/28/2012
Here it is Wednesday afternoon and I just finished a great road ride. It's time to recover and let's "shake" things up. You will LOVE it and see instructions below. Ingredients 2 scoops GU Brew Recovery Orange-Pineapple https://guenergy.com/store/drinks/recovery-brew.html 1 1/2 cups of fruit: banana, kiwi and strawberries 12 oz. water Procedure combine all in blender and "liquefy" for 30 seconds 
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The Round Valley Round Up takes place normally in January however with the lack of snow in Park City this year Mountain Trails Foundation postponed the race to March 10th. In the coming week temps were in the 50's and sunny and the trail was disappearing fast. The day before the race MTF was out shoveling snow and repairing the bare spots. Great job for making the race happen. Andy and I have completed our first skate ski race ever... with a mere short year of skating we decided its time to go out and see what it's all about. The start was at 10:15a and already 40degrees/sunny I decided I needed some water right before the race. Andy so kind ran back to the car and as he's running back they are shouting 3-2-1 GOOOOOO! Crap, were in the back of the pack and not even in his bindings. (Oh, I didn't get my water either) HA! We started out totally flustered but we were able to pass some peeps on the hill. Not many though. I was always able to keep 2 racers in sight that were my rabbit. Nicely enough there were 4 aid stations with water so I'd take a swig at each and keep moving. I only consumed 1 GU gel for the entire race. It's tough to eat, drink and skate all at the same time. Not sure how it's done but it was still fun to try. I really enjoyed the event and thought it was marked well and they did a great job for the conditions that we were given. I did rally to take 3rd place in 30-39 age group and Andy got 6th in 30-39 age group. 
What a great surprise! Thank you Moots Cycles! I just got home from a 2 hour road ride and absolutely love my new back bib shorts. I'm looking forward to putting lots of miles in my new shorts. Headed to Woodside, Cali and Moab yet this month... lots of great riding ahead. Aaaah, back to racing 03/05/2012
After a much needed break from racing I took last year off and "played". I love to just go out and ride and backpack all summer but I REALLY miss racing. A short month ago I decided I want to RACE!!! I love the support from my husband, Moots, GU Energy, Ibex, Maui Jim and Wobble-Naught. THANK YOU for always believing in me. With that being said I still love to camp, backpack, hike with my doggy and ride. I'm changing things up this year and doing the mid-week race series, XC races and 2 endurance races. That's it... no more long slogging miles on the bike. Which I still can do but won't be counted as training :o) I geared up and headed to St. George for my first race this season on Friday. I decided to race expert considering my lack of training and boy did I make the right decision. I ended up in 4th place and 6 minutes behind 1st. So, I can say I'm in the right category... for now ;O) I did everything right... slept well, enjoyed some great dinner in Ivine... I'm just slow. It'll come back... it's only March right?!?! Couple photos from my fun weekend. Promoting what I believe in... everyday use. 02/15/2012
Moots! Mooto X RSL Ibex Knickers saves my knees every time from the cold. 
Skate skiing at Soldier Hollow. Ibex from Head to Toe: Meru hat, Woolies Crew, Men's energy tights and Crew sock. 
Maui Jim Dawn Patrols. 
Always wearing my Maui Jim's... skiing, cycling, hiking... all the time! Oh and look, I'm wearing Ibex wool here too. 
Received a nice package of new GU Roctane Endurance Drink goodie sample. Will be trying it out on my longer training rides. I'm so looking forward to my first race for 2012! 
1,000 mile reward 11/21/2011
 LOTOJA! I received my 1,000 mile reward! http://lotojaclassic.com/main/index.html I owned my first road bike in 2004 buying a Giant from local shop Teton Cycle Works. Three months later I competed in my first race. LOTOJA. Andy and I signed up for this race together and to finish. We would stop at every feedzone and eat sandwiches and put on sunscreen. I look back and laugh but I wouldn't change that day for anything. What a great day for the both of us.  Team Damman in action. My bike looks too small!?!  All smiles at the finish  2005 the year it snowed. At the start and having no idea I'd be experiencing hypothermia and being rescued on the side of the road on Strawberry pass. 2007 and 2008 I took a break from Lotoja and came back in 2009 and Won!  2009 coming into the finish after soloing 100 miles and winning the race. http://news.hjnews.com/sports/article_f7bbca02-c7e9-5898-8a1c-b5922ebe5691.html Cycling Utah did a little coverage on pages 14 and 15 
 Climbing up Geneva pass in 2010 having my fastest time ever. 10 hours.  Amazing day with a great friend and teammate. 2010 cat 1/2/3 place 4th 10hrs 2009 cat 1/2/3 place 1st time 10hrs 23min 2006 cat 1/2/3 place 6th time 10hrs 35min 2005 cat 4 place DNF 2004 citizen 27-34 place 19th time 11hrs 18min Highline Trail 09/27/2011
Dina and I hiked 100 miles in the Wind River Range. We did the Highline/Fremont trails -- picking whichever one had us deeper in the mountains at any given time -- and then did an extra credit day hike into Cirque of the Towers at the end. We started at the Big Sandy Trailhead and came out at Green River Lakes five days later. Day 0- shutteling cars and sleeping in the back of Dina's truck at Big Sandy Trailhead. Day 1- little views except the backside of Cirque. With little hiking going into this trip (1hr 30min hike at most) my back was hurting carrying a 30 lb pack. However no pain once I tossed the pack. ha. We did see lots of hunters the first 15miles of our trip. We camped at Upper Silver Lake. I stayed super warm in my -15 degree mountain hardware bag and Dina's mega lite During the night at 12:30am I woke up to elk buggeling. Day 2- Today was a lot of map reading and treaky trails that would disappear. We did a have great views of Dragon Head and started to see lots of lakes and ponds. Now that my back has gotten use to the pack my hips start hurting. Plateau was REALLY beautiful - as we got back into more trees there were lots of grand views because the trees were sparsely spaced - AWESOME!! We camped at North Fork Lake. We only saw 3 other backpackers today and they were camped at Nork Fork Lake too. During the night I heard a owl hooting. Day 3- We had gorgeous views once over Hat Pass. Camped at Tommy Lake. We saw one other backpacker and his dog that were doing the trail from North to South. The weather has been perfect and warm above 10,000 ft. We washed our feet in the lake and were in t-shirts all day. Day 4- Beautiful day of hiking. Once we got over Lester Pass, hiked past Little Seneca Lake and Island Lake (sand beaches) we hung our packs and did a 12 mile day hike to Titcomb Lake. Big peaks, amazing entrance, Dina went swimming and Granite peaks surrounding us. We hiked back to our packs and ventured on to the ponds underneath Lower Jean Lakes. This was my favorite day by far. Day 5- Today we said goodbye to the mountains and hello to the forest. Good maintained trails. My big toe (toe bang) started to hurt today because of the 3,875 ft of descending, overall the body felt good. We camped off the trails by Green River Creek where the water was teal color. Day 6- This was our coldest morning at camp. We hiked out so fast not even changing out of our Ibex woolies. We didn't even make breakfast. We did stop once we were in the sun, took layers off and only had 2 miles left of our hike. Today was flat with views of Squaretop Mountain and hiked along the Green River Lakes. We saw 2 moose before Upper Green River Lakes. After dropping our packs we freshened up in the Lake and started back to Big Sandy to camp for the night. Day 7- 20 mile day hike into Cirque of the Towers. I loved the dramatic landscape, with granite spire peaks and high alpine wilderness setting.              Park City Point to Point 09/04/2011
I did it! 77.40 miles, 10,931 ft of climbing all on the best single track in Park City.     Tour de Park City 07/30/2011
 Tour de Park City Gran Fondo 172 miles, 8,500 ft of climbing. The race started at 6 a.m., sun was just starting to rise as we took off! 3rd place women overall.  I had 8 GU's for nutrition and GU brew in my water bottles. I couldn't race without my GU's. It was great to see and have GU support this event too! PC 50 07/21/2011
 Smiling before...  and smiling after the PC 50. 50miles of glorious single track around Park City Mountain Resort. checking in with Park City conditions 06/20/2011
 Riding along dry dirt at Pinebrook trails to find this patch of snow at 7,965 ft.  Mid Mountain Trail | |||
