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present!

Hey! No dark sarcasm in the classroom.

The same video is now also on our YouTube channel at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jROYhJUz0

Here's a traditional slideshow which features the same 181 images as the video version:
http://www.adventurecorps.com/mlbc/recon/index.html

And here are those 181 images in our SmugMug galleries: http://adventurecorps.smugmug.com/MLBC/MLBCpreview/10199337_zs7Ka/1/702620376_Lv7it

Nice logos! Who made them?

If you look closely, you'll see that these logos incorporate some of the same elements as our CORPScamp Death Valley logo. They were created by Bill Oetinger of Santa Rosa, CA, a professional illustrator who is also one of the driving forces behind the Terrible Two Double Century. Here's a link to his portfolio page:
http://www.sonic.net/~backroad/... Read Morehttp://www.sonic.net/~backroad/portfolio.html

We also get a lot of graphic work done, in particular our Badwater and Furnace Creek 508 Race Magazines, as well as most of our ads, by Kevin Fung of La Jolla, CA:
http://www.kfungdesign.com/

Just rode up Kitchen Creek today - what a beautiful place to ride!

I would love to do this.

The registration link for the March 6, 2010 Spring Death Valley Century and Double Century will be posted to the event webpage at 9pm, California time, Tuesday night, December 1, 2009. Thirty minutes prior (830pm), the registration link will be sent out via our email newsletter, giving a small headstart to newsletter subscribers. Here's the event webpage:
http://www.adventurecorps.com/dvspring/

And here's the email newsletter link:
http://www.adventurecorps.com/lists.html

Badwater Mayor Ben Jones was photographing the event near the Stovepipe Wells sand dunes in the early morning and you can see his fine photos here:
http://community.webshots.com/album/575234310rWVqgg

Here are the event results:
http://www.adventurecorps.com/deathvalley/2009/2009dvfallresults.html

sweet ride!

Perhaps cooling down has benefits not related to lactic acid.

Every few years someone comes up with some study or theory that purportedly "stands the accepted wisdom of (name your addiction) on its head."

But, as with virtually every question or issue known to man, the ultimate answer is: It depends.

With regards to this question, i.e. to cool down or not to cool down, it really depends more on the level of activity at which you've been exercising. Of course, if you've been noodling along at 12 or 15 for a few hours or days, like your garden-variety ultra-athlete, well, then a cool-down probably isn't (as) critical. But just try jumping off your bike after a long points race or a criterium sprint, after you've been spinning along at 130 or 160 cadence for awhile. You'll be walking like your legs are made of wood, and you may even get a bit nauseous. I had a track-racing friend who would throw up after a really hard workout or a long, fast race if he didn't do at least a 15 minute cool-down. If he did the cool-down, no problem!... Read More

And I can attest to the FACT that unless I spin it down slowly after a hard workout, my muscles WILL NOT recover as quickly as if I do.

My post-workout drill: Pound down some good recovery drink IMMEDIATELY after a ride, then a good long deep leg massage in cool-to-cold water while sipping water or a not-too-sweet sports drink, preferably watered down about 50/50.

After 22 years of racing and riding and hiking and backpacking and a bit of trail-running, there's one thing I know beyond a shadow of a doubt: No cool-down and/or post-workout carbo-loading and massage equals sore muscles that are not (as) ready to race the next day.
This much I know.

Jeff Lafferty
FC508 Team Rhino