MORF in July

The MORF team has kept busy racing in July, and we've had lots of time to see each other!

Greg & Debby raced the Winter Park Mountain Series Valley Point to Point, while Jason and Vanessa raced the Boulder Peak Tri. Debby took second at the Valley Point to Point, and Vanessa placed fifth in her age group.


A good MORF contingent raced Xterra Beaver Creek -- Greg, Aaron, Casey, Debby, and Vanessa all raced while Natalie cheered us on and Mike volunteered. Greg was racing very strongly and near the top of his age group until midway through the bike when he tore his derailler off his bike. After several attempts to change his bike into a singlespeed, he ended up running the last 8 miles of the bike course (with his bike!) before beginning the official run portion of the race!

A highlight of this race was seeing our teammates. Although none of us wanted to see Greg running on the bike course, it was great to have fellow MORFers shouting words of encouragement as we saw each other out on the course. Debby and Vanessa came out of the water together and then Debby shot ahead on the climb (as expected!! She is rocking her mountain bike!!). For anyone thinking about racing this next year, take Aaron's postrace advice that "training for that event would probably have proven to be an intelligent move! " And for the team -- next time we get together, we need a group shot in our kits!!

It was great to see everybody... and good to see so many MORF Kits out on the course!


MORF's version of Where's Waldo: Can you spot the MORF kit here?
http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/07/photos-xterra-mountain-championship/#21