Finally watched all of the videos. Love a dust over rock 
The womens race was not the most exciting to watch. I think that it was so blown out everyone just rode safe.
The menâs was a bit more spicey.
Also saw this Instagram reel of some kid Iâve not heard of following Asa
Theyâre doing a race there in a couple weeks and itâs a top to bottom run, which is long as hell. I rode it a few times while i was there with teammates who were practicing for the race.
Watching the video it doesnt even look the same. Dude hits flat turns at absolutely warp speed.
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Wow they are flying, that looks super fun on the wide open sections, Iâd never be able to dive into the woods with such confidence (let alone the huge jumps).
This is a fun video, the ghosted overlay demonstrations are really interesting. Pros are just on another planet, (apparently the âaverage Joeâ host here is no slouch himself).
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Yeah, on that wide open road, they turn right into the woods and thereâs like a 6 ft ish drop (i just roll it because you actually canât just fly off it else you risk landing on a pile or rocks instead of the wood landing), which they hit perfectly without any issues somehow after railing the turn.
it did make me wonder how long that would take me in the race if it took them 6+ minutes. 8 minutes? 9 minutes? long as hell to hold on.
it is a fun course and a good choice for a local race as you can easily do it without being a pro, it is mostly on blacks with only a few sections of double-black level steeps (and they are fairly non technical). but all the little rock gardens just disappear at the speed they were moving at. just skipped over em.
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I notice that watching DH racing Iâm thinking âhow would I navigate that rock garden if I were racing?â and the answer from the pros is like âclear the whole thing in the airâ.
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Yeah, 30% of dudes crashed. Thatâs pretty wild.
Agree womenâs wasnât as exciting as they have been, but still glad I was able to watch it. Then just caught mens highlights after I had it spoiled while doing family stuff
I think amy was talking about the race she did. Unless the men at her local race wanted to emulate the pros this weekend.
No, i was talking about the world cup.
That particular womenâs race just didnât keep me on my toes. I am glad there werenât a bunch of crashes in the womenâs race though.
The menâs race was mostly exciting because of the crashes I guess and it did feel like any manâs game as some people really turned around their time in the lower couple splits (i.e. jordan williams nearly clawing his way back out of a pretty big deficit).
Maybe last years was more exciting due to the mud? I canât remember. But this year i understood why lots of people were griping about this course.
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I liked it because the frontrunners got taken out. And the fellow with lots of experience and consistency did another consistent run to for once be in first.
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had the 2nd race of the local race series
god, i was not feeling it. absolutely shit run. similar to the last one but worse, i felt way more fatigue than normal and barely had the energy to push.
i have been having tons of joint aches, fatigue, etc lately and its worse in the evening and into the night, so starting to wonder if iâll ever feel good in an evening race.
i wanted to see the dayâs trail conditions so i had the great idea to ebike up a preview lap, which i regretted because my ebike is so much worse of a bike than the hd6 so it did not give me confidence and i had overinflated the tires. i needed to decide if i was doing to run all of the A-lines and there was no way I was doing the first one on the e-bike. so i skipped the main A-line, which is about 300 feet shorter than the ride around, and did the next ones but they were sketchy on the eeb.
i had some age group competition by way of a very fit, very fast late 40s rider who signed up day off. she took all the a-lines and beat me by 15 seconds.
i sat down every chance i could and skipped all the jumps (theyâre all smallish gap jumps) because i didnt feel like i was going fast enough 
ended up 2nd out of 6 in the age group cat. overall, 6 out of 27 non-eebs across all cats/ages.
team coach got some cool pics though
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i ârodeâ a line that was probably flatter than the line in Amyâs videos LOOKS, so much flatter irl. on my cross bike. unfortunately I had failed to clip both feet in, and stupidly decided to scooter down, which worked for about one single second until I realized a crash was inevitable. then I picked the least rooty spot. now I am bruised and bloody
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very pro 
First time riding trails on flats over the weekend. I put them on so I could tote the kid around more conveniently with the MacRide. Just some cheap fookers (and vans). It was ok!! I only jumped off the pedals riding up a low speed ledge, trying to hop the rear wheel up and over. Technical climbs felt harder but Iâm also out of shape. I got to eject over the bike when I was about to tip over in a rock garden, and definitely couldnât have done that clipped in. So thatâs a win. Descending was OK but I kept finding that me feet werenât exactly where I wanted them, and couldnât reset while riding. Should I give in and get some mtb shoes?
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Get dat five ten sole man. Adidas often has sales on their five ten soled Mtb shoes. And Iâm gonna plug One Up plastic pedals because theyâre cheap and they grip really well. No need to get weird Amazon brands.
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The OG Freeriders I have are a menace when trying to reposition my foot while moving.
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yeah the repositioning can be tricky but damn these Fizik flat pedal shoes is sticky!
I have the ugly orthopedic-looking Specialized shoes that are always on sale, and they are super grippy using the HT composite pedals that are super cheap at Universal.
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I imagine they wonât be on sale for much longer, unless you are a size 45, as they seem to have made a zillion of them. I even missed out on getting a second pair.
The feeling that you arenât in the correct place is just what flats is about. Not sure you are supposed to be able to really adjust your feet easily on the fly.