Second Practice

The season is off to a fast start. We had our first practice on Thursday, a morning workout on Friday, and our second practice today. Today we focused on more skills including tight switchback turns and riding over obstacles. Michael Greenberg won today's competition and made the tightest turn possible. Even Mr. Sercel, a scientist, said it couldn't be done. Great job Michael!

The team assembling for our 8:00am start.

Coach Bird providing instructions on today's drills.

Matt Kubly and Trent Carlson demonstrating the "tight turn" skills training.

Michael Greenberg leading the team up and over the obstacles.

Thursday, December 2nd - Our first practice of the season

Our first practice of the season. 17 riders made it out, along with 6 coaches!

The team practiced the "gauntlet". Steve Shushnar won the NICA jersey. He outlasted all of the other riders and showed the best bike handling skills, at least on this day.

Vote for our 2010-2011 cycling kit!

Below are the two final designs for our 2010-2011 cycling kit. Please be sure to email me with your vote for design "Stripes" or "Bubbles".

Design "Stripes" Jersey

Design "Stripes" Shorts

Design "Bubbles" Jersey

Design "Bubbles" Shorts

St. Francis in the SoCal Single Track Times

Thanks to Matt Gunnell, League Director of the SoCal League for the complimentary article on us in the recent SoCal League Single Track Times!

El Prieto Trail Maintenance

On Sunday, November 7th, 19 St. Francis students and 10 coaches and parents hiked up into the Angeles National Forest to support CORBA with trail repairs. Our team spent 6 hours digging, building walls, and moving rocks. Wow was that hard work!

El Prieto is a world-famous singletrack trail located right here in our own backyard behind JPL. Unfortunately, the trail was badly damaged by the Station fire and subsequent rains. Many portions of the trail were completely eroded or had disappeared under tons of debris and silt from the rains.

Our crew met at 7:45am. By 8:00am, we were on our way, with tools, for a 30 minute hike up to the trail. For 5 hours the crew worked hard, only taking a couple of minutes here and there to get some water or a snack. By 2:00pm, we were back at the cars and feeling pretty gratified with the work that we had done. Nice job St. Francis!

Here we go again!

On Thursday, September 23rd we had our first mountain bike club meeting of the 2010-2011 season. Over 40 students have signed up for the club and 30 attended our first club meeting. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, September 30th. Everyone seems pretty excited about our 3rd year of mountain bike racing for St. Francis High School!

Los Olivos Race - Season Finale!