Dylan and Jena's Two Wheeled Adventures

Our trip to Kamloops for the BC XCM Championships started with a visit from one of our title sponsors and dear friend, CEO of Canadarail.ca, Martin Flanagan.  Martin met up with us in Invermere and hooked us up with our sweet new jerseys.  It's always nice to see Martin and his awesome wife Heather (who was unfortunately stuck up at Panorama the day we passed through).  Their endless positive energy and kindness always warms our hearts and makes us smile. After our stop in Invermere, we carried on to Kamloops.  We camped out near the course on Thursday, but stayed at an airbnb house Friday - Sunday.  The race was being held at Stake Lake Nordic Centre about 15 minutes south of Kamloops.  It had rained a ton over the past few weeks, so the course was SLOPPY in spots and damn near unrideable in other places.  The course crew and volunteers worked incredibly hard to try to divert some of the water and make bypasses where needed.  It was pretty wa...

After being on the road for the past four weekends, we've come back to Fernie to train, take care of some business, spend time with Apollo and rest up for Singletrack 6! Dylan has decided NOT to do the Canadian XCO National Championships in Canmore next weekend for a number of reasons.  We've preridden 5 of the 6 stages for ST6 so we feel very prepared and we'll be doing it individually this year as opposed to co-ed team. This is a top priority race for us, so we're very excited.  The courses are awesome and it's closer to home than everything else we've done this year, so we're stoked! http://singletrack6.com/  

 They say "Never go Full Enduro (Bro)" and now that makes so much more sense. What a riot!  Jena and I will always love trail riding and XC racing, but we'll definitely be signing up for a few more enduros this season and for years to come. We just may have caught the Enduro bug while racing the North American Enduro Cup​ held at Silver Mountain Bike Park​ just outside of Kellogg, Idaho. ABOUT THE RACE: 8,223 ft. of climbing, 16,026 ft. of descending, 75km of pedaling! The 9 stages covered the most epic and diverse terrain possible. From loose shale motocross tracks, to jumps of every kind, drops (from 5 to 10 feet), berms, chunky rock, rock faces, wide open sections, tight-twisty sections and literally brand new trail. JENA'S TAKE: I took the win in the Expert women's category by roughly 9.5 minutes, which would have placed me 9th amongst the pro's (25 seconds off 8th). Some of the best male and female enduro athletes in North America wer...

The Sp'akw'us Challenge is a two day endurance race in Squamish, BC.  It's the fourth of five races in the BC XC marathon (XCM) series, and the Sp'akw'us was a race that we were really looking forward to all winter.  The first day was a 43km (even though they call it the Sp'akw'us 50) technical challenging course that climbs about 1300 metres.  The course takes you up some tough climbs and sends you down some of the deadliest, most fun descents that Squamish has to offer.  Day two was scheduled to be around 29 km but due to a family of bears roaming around the top of a trail named Mad Hatter, the course was shortened to around 26 km.  It was a bit tamer, and featured some of the more flowy trails in the area.  We wanted to do both days for two reasons: 1) Doing back to back longer races is great training for Singletrack 6 which we'll be doing at the end of July. 2) We drove all the way across BC, so WHY NOT do two days of riding sweet tra...