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THE AUGUST NEWS LETTER IS HERE…BUT TO GET TO IT, YOU NEED TO CLICK ON ‘AUGUST’ ABOVE THIS. I SOME HOW MANAGED TO ACCIDENTALLY STICK ‘AUGUST’ ON AS AN ADDITION TO JULY INSTEAD OF AS A NEW NEWSLETTER. THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR EDITOR IN CHIEF CONFUSES ‘NEW PAGE’ WITH ‘NEW POST’. LOL now let me go shoot the computer. it’s not it’s fault but it’ll make me feel better. :)
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| 1 pizza nite6:15 PM run : ) | 2 | 3 | 4 FM7:00 AM
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9 | 10 | 11 FM 7:00 AM |
| 12 | 136:15 track | 14 | 15 Pizza Fac 6:15 PM run | 16 | 17 | 18 SRP7:00 AM |
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21 | 22 Pizza Fac
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23 | 24 | 25 FM7:00 AM |
| 26 | 276:15
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28 | 29 Pizza Fac.
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30 | 31 | 1 Aug SRP7:00 AM |
SRP = santa rosa Plateau FM =Farmers market in old Town
Pizza fac = pizza factory
Note: 1st and 3rd Sat of the month will be run at SRP at 0700 for the Summer
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NEW just in below Doug’s data: Doug, Kim K. and my trip to Idylwild’s Hurkey creek for mt biking fun in the sun. NOW ADDED: 3 Video links …and corrected the inadvertent duplicate video.
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From Doug:
Looking at taking Kayak lessons in San Diego. Talked with Mark about it and he said he and Barb are interested also. Said he can go either 8/2 8/15 or 8/30 Im wondering how many others might be interested…E me back if you are.
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Thanx to Doug, it looks like we really are going to have a ‘proper’ July newsletter…the following are his photos, captions and comments 
HEY GANG, ENJOY SOME PICS FROM THE 5K/15K RACE AT CORONADO PLUS SOME PICS FROM THE 5 K “OFF ROAD” RACE AT GUAJOME
Some of the Gang awaiting Awards. 4th of July and American flag
Check out Boston’s new Bicycle Wheel Ear rings
Guajome Park 7 AM ”Only the Fit are Fearless”
Middle of the Men’s race and Tino’s just behind Big Mo’. He’s runnin’ well but for some reason he’s giving me the stink eye.
Victor Flores: this Gato’s gettin’ faster with every race. Or maybe he’s afraid of gettin’ passed by a dude with a mullet.
Flyin’ Bryan Allen mid race
Noni mid race. Boston Barb is hidden behind Noni, you can just make out Barbs elbow behind Noni. They are trying to run down Jammin’ Jane who has 20 yards on them and Jane is trying to catch Kim P. who is 10 yds in front of her.
KP only a few yards from the finish line. Kim took Taimi’s bib and ran in an age group 2 age groups lower…and she won..and if that wasn’t remarkable enough, Jammin’ Jane finished about 18 seconds later and Boston Barb and Noni (I’m guessing) finished just about 20 seconds back of that. …And they are all 4 age groups older and would have placed well in the W 35 to 39 group!! I’d get down on my knees and bow but well with my back and all I might have trouble gettin’ back up. Any rate, you gals all rock!
Guajome Park and what’s left of the gang as they head home back to 100+ degree temps.
Thanx Mucho’s Doug for providing some really first class quality material for the Newsletter!!
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On Friday 16th, Doug, Kim K, and I Mountain biked at Hurkey Creek, about 1 hr from Temecula. Fun was never so cheap. $2. per person entrance fee to the lovely Hurkey creek campground start area got us a full days worth of mt biking fun.
This area is ripe with trails from EZ to NOT for mt. biking and hiking. The multitude of trails come with spectacular views and a map designed to confuse the best, or at least the 3 of us. The fact that it confused Kim and me was no surprise but even pro navigator Doug got a bit twisted around due to the map not accurately reflecting cross trails. Not a big deal though so long as your brain remembers which general direction gets you back to the campground.
I’d advise taking plenty of fluids and food though to allow for potential unexpected extra exercise that returning to camp might entail, and the compass we tossed in our pack last minute came in handy.
We climbed steadily on mostly nice single track from the start local of about uh….4,200 ft til 2.2 miles and 40 minutes later we summited at 4,900 feet. After that our bikes got to play with swopping fun and ez downs til we suddenly hit the below technical blip. The photo doesn’t accurately reflect the difficulty of the 20 ft dead down dive. The dive led to the 2 ft wide bridge Kim is standing on that the bikes had to be aimed at, then pedal for all you’re worth to try to get back up the 20 plus foot tall slope Kim’s facing.
Down hill speedster Doug was well ahead of pokey down hiller me as we approached this surprise. Kim was on my back wheel.
Kim flexing her new found mt biking muscles.
Before Doug even had a chance to think , ’WHOPPYYYYY’ , let alone yell it, he flew down, crossed the bridge and upPPed back up the UP again. I doubt he even had time to comprehend the difficulty of what he’d just done or maybe he just always looks that cool and collected under pressure : ) . He sprang ( as much as he can ’spring’) off his bike to spot me across. Approaching more slowly than Doug had, I took one look at it, clutched my back brake to slow my pace fearing I’d go over the bridge’s edge, turned my bike into what Doug calls a sled, slid down, then only had enough speed to make it half way back up before reaching max uphill speed of zero MPH. Since most bikes don’t like to stay vertical at 0 MPH, especially when on about a 70 degree slope, mine plopped over on it’s side. OOPSie daisy also known as OH S$%&#t !! Knowing Kim was on my tailfeathers, I dragged my bike aside, and Doug bounced (yes, he can bounce) down into a better spotting spot just in time for her to catapult down, accross and WOWWWW KIM, I CAN’T BELEIVE YOU MADE IT back up and out.
KIM: ”I double dare you Glen to make it up this first try!”
After the ‘blip’, the trail resumed to EZ fun downs, leading to a large valley surrounded by mt’s.
Doug doing a snake track check, better known as an R n R stop.
R n R feels pretty good, even to a new found expert biker.
“Maybe it’s an ADD thing.”
Unlike most humans who fall off their bikes going zero MPH, somehow Doug manages to remain on his. Or maybe the camera just stopped his motion really well. We’ll never tell!
The above and below photos reflect the terrain/views we had most of the time.
Kim to Doug: “Do ya want to compare heart rates?”
Doug: ” Not particularly”
Lunch time – 5.3 miles and roughly 2.5 hrs into the ride.
Mt Biking has a fast learning curve to it and Kim’s picking it up at warp speed. In this pic, note that she’s even learned to stand like an expert biker…and I don’t think Doug by the looks of it coached her!
View at lunch. (That road is steeper than it looks!). We got to experience this view twice because after lunch we headed down down downnnnn a very longggg and very nice double track road for a very longgggg time until….
The nice nifty double track dead ended at a DO NOT ENTER private property fence line. Hummmmmmm….
Lost in Space but at least it was beautiful space to be lost in
Doug: “Not lost….I still know where North is and where the camp ground is… uhhh, let’s see that compass again for a sec… and don’t those forest service folks believe in billboards or somethin’ out here to ID the trails??”
Sooo we got to ride all the way back upppppp, making frequent map check stops that didn’t help us, til we got to re see that view we had at lunch at 5, 100 feet, then we kept going UP further from that spot til we spotted hiway 74, then went DOWNHILL and re found our original summit that actually wasn’t since it was 4,900 ft. We back tracked back to our start local, then dropped our bikes after almost 4 hrs. We all set down and chilled out eating good food and drinking all the extra fluid we had left at the car : )
Icing on the mt biking day Cake: After words, we all took a bath together. Uh, that didn’t come out quite right since two of us are married. We drove the 2 miles to Lake Hemit and took an absolutely delightful plunge in the chilly waters to clean the dust off our very well dusted clothes and bodies. The perfect ending to a perfect day.
VIDEO LINKS TAKEN DURING THE RIDE: Doug tackles the deep dip and makes it look too easy and Kim and I traverse a meadow, I whoosh thru a down slope at our lunch spot:
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/Trexx77/?action=view¤t=HurkeyCreekJuly09KimandTracy005.flv
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