3 – Santa Fe BFL
What a great day to be on the bike!!! We had 38 people sign-up and 28 showed up… 3 finished the full route plus the Rancho Viejo option and 9 others finished the full route, 4 of which were single speeders. Nice job everyone!!
There were a couple needless DNFs… 
Remember for next year if you make it to the top of Pacheco Canyon, you have done all the hard work, only a few short climbs after descending Winsor…. If you make it to the intersection of Chamisa & Sidewinder, you have a short climb broken up into rollers and then a great decent down to Little Tesuque Trail, for a total of only 3.3 miles to Hyde road…
I (Lenny) DNF’ed last year at Pacheco Canyon and was suprised this year how un-hard (don’t want to say easy.. ) it was after 9 hours… My polar computer shows the Pacheco Canyon climb to be 7.2 miles and 2000 feet of climbing. So if this was your bail out point this year, remember that Pacheco Canyon is not as nasty as it looks and go for it next year!!!
Please post your short ride reports as comments to this page.
Bragging Rights
SS – Denotes Single Speed
DNF – Denotes Did Not Finish
DNSO – Denotes Did Not Sign Out
DNS – Did Not Show
Start time was 6:37am
Full Route plus Rancho Viejo (73 miles, ~14,400 feet climbing)
Name Finish time Elapsed time
1 Jens Nielsen 4:20 PM 9:43
2 Lenny Goodell 6:47 PM 12:10
3 Chris Hereford 7:42 PM 13:05
Full Route (70 miles, ~14,000 feet climbing)
Name Finish time Elapsed time
1 Donnie Cole 5:22 PM 10:45
2 Jeff Humberson 6:48 PM 12:11 *SS
3 Trent Hart 7:15 PM 12:38 *SS
4 Sean Siefkin 7:31 PM 12:54
5 Brian Kennedy 7:47 PM 13:10
6 Richard Capener 8:05 PM 13:28
7 Mark Gee 8:20 PM 13:43 *SS
8 Tim Wise 8:20 PM 13:43 *SS
99 Andrew Black DNF
99 Bret Bernard DNF
99 Charley Rome DNF
99 Doug Young DNF
99 Eytan Krasilovsky DNF
99 Glenn Walton DNF
99 Leia Barnett DNF
99 Mike Mangan DNF
99 Nate Berg DNF
99 Paul Laur DNF
99 Sean Wilson DNF
99 Tim Nelson DNF
99 Zoe Nance DNF
99 Brian Parrish DNSO
99 Chris Briggs DNSO
99 Scott Broome DNSO
99 Thomas Bell DNSO
00 Dave Garner DNS
00 David Bell DNS
00 Glen Gollrad DNS
00 John Stevens DNS
00 Kim Sather DNS
00 Paul Greenwood DNS
00 Rob Brinkerhoff DNS
00 Roualeyn de Haas DNS
00 Severn Thomas DNS
July 7, 2008 at 1:09 am |
What a great day for a long ride! Thanks for running the show Jens and Lenny. I think the Rancho Viejo piece should be required routing for next year. And maybe Jens can do two laps of the entire SFBFL to make it a challenge.
I only got way off route three times yesterday, and no, it wasn’t dead batteries on my PGPS. I’ll have to ride faster next time, so I can follow one of you GPS’ers. But what would 13 hours on the bike be like if I weren’t alone for most of it?
July 7, 2008 at 2:47 am |
What a monster day on the bike…even though I only logged 7:15mins (started at Chamisa and finished at Bear Wallow turnoff coming down winsor). Jens is a MONSTER as you all know and a long day on the bike with him is a good day on a bike. The trails were killer, exactly what I needed in mid-July of a long race year…a good “fun” ride. Maybe one day I’ll be able to finish one of these things with you guys…not tomorrow – legs still to sore!
D-Rock
July 7, 2008 at 5:22 pm |
Wow. What a day. The weather was perfect, just enough rain to provide a cool off and a little mud splatter. After grunting away for eleven hours (yes I know that’s an hour and a half longer than it took Jens to finish the whole thing) I found myself at the bottom of Pacheco Canyon wondering if I had the strength or the day light to continue. I opted out but it gives me hope to hear those final climbs are perhaps not as daunting as they seem. Definitely will go for it next year, daylight or no daylight. Thanks for putting on this event, it provided me much excitement and trepidation. Can’t wait for another shot next year.
Awesome job to all those who finished and all those who didn’t!
Leia
July 8, 2008 at 11:51 pm |
Great day,long ride,friendly people,&thanks for putting this on . See you in Taos.,I need to clean my slate of dnf’s.
July 11, 2008 at 7:46 pm |
Wow, great day on the bike even though I only got 35 miles on the bike computer. I had to bail after getting quad and hamstring cramps on windsor. Was great fun with great people. What a blast bombing down bear wallow and windsor with Doug da goat!
I too need to clean my slate of DNF’s…..:P
June 4, 2009 at 2:39 pm |
Where did my comment / post go?
June 25, 2009 at 5:26 am |
I Love the way you write…thanks for posting