Cat A Series standings

Category A Name	Ride #1	Ride #2	Ride  #5	Ride #6	Total
Mike Diesberg	48	49	45	48	190
Matt Langley	Host-33	50	48	49	180
Ben Emery	44	47	39	47	177
Mike Belser	41	42	42	Host-33	158
Keith Wharton	39	35	43	34	151
Colby Frontiero	49		50	50	149
Neil Benton	45	45		46	136
Bryce Straka	43	43	46		132
Brook Russel		48	35	44	127
Brian Burgfechtel	40	44	Host-34		118
Adam leiferman	50	Host-33			117
Gabe Hatheway	34	36	38		108
Jeremy Boone		33	37	38	108
Leif Johanssen	46	46			92
Vance Oracion	43			41	84
John Kirlin		38	44		82
Fred Grossman	35	40			75
Jason Webb		37	36		73
Paul Lobdell		33	40		73
Jason Garder	37			34	71
Gordon Edwards	10	10	10	40	70
Josh JaQuot	28			39	67
Matt Bowman	10	10	10	37	67
Micah Rush			49		49
Eric Christiansen			47		47
Scott Cotton			10	36	46
Kristi Olsen				45	45
Austin Dulaney				43	43
Chris… Last name ?			41		41
Joe McGinley		39			39
Matt Jalovich	38				38
Nathan Boor				35	35

Hogadon Hurt: A class results

Name                     Time        Plate #

Colby Frontiero	22:42	A13
Matt Langley	23:47	A9
Mike Diesberg	24:42:00	A1
Ben Emery	24:45:00	A3
Neil Benton	25:48:00	A4
Kristi Olsen	26:12:00	A41
Brook (Crash) Russell	26:33:00	A15
Austin Dulaney	27:10:00	A36
Brock Smith	27:18:00	A39
Vance Oracion	27:50:00	A16
Gordon Edwards	28:58:00	A37
Josh Jacquot	32:14:00	A14
Jeremy Boon	34:40:00	A27
Matt Bowman	34:41:00	A37
Scott Cotton	35:20:00	A31
Nathan Boor	40:37:00	A40
Jason Gardner	DNF	A23
Keith Wharton	DNF	A11

Please remember your plate numbers.  Re-use the plates from last night, or make new ones for the next ride.  This helped us out with timing so please keep doing this.  Thanks

Mens B Category results for Hogadon Hurt

NAME	TIME	# PLATE
Craig Carellier	30:01:00
Clint Conner	30:47:00	B58
Eric Hansen	31:30:00	B93
Joel Simonsen	33:10:00	B57
Mike McLemore	33:31:00	B55
Matt Deane	34:24:00	B59
Chris Smith         Kirk Kissack	35:50:00 36:01:00	B56    B18
Travis Winchell	36:40:00	B66
Tim Winkler	37:27:00	B92
Nick Egleseder	37:40:00	B62
Alex Custard	37:41:00	B30
Nick Wendell	37:46:00	B50
Norm Brown	38:15:00	B15
Mason Sale	38:20:00	B45
Darrin Stone	40:05:00	B63
Tim Swain	41:53:00	B64
Stephen Jensen	42:15:00	B54
Quinn Kunka	42:19:00	B61
Clint Webb	42:26:00	B103
Dan Straka	42:40:00	B20
Scott Jensen	42:57:00	B53
Josh Davis	44:10:00	B51
Jack Custard	44:23:00	B26
Tommy Ladd	46:00:00	B60
Jeremy Bruch	DNF	B40

One rider is unaccounted for: Sean Kelley.  I don't have a time for you Sean.  I'm terribly sorry.  Did you finish and we missed you (highly likely) or did you DNF, are you still on the trail?  Please let me know by emailing at fatfishracing@gmail.com  Sorry for the hassle but I'd like to get this straight before I post series results.  Thanks

Hogadon Hurt Womens Results

Finishing results for the women who rode 6 loops.  Number plate is following your time.  If you haven't already destroyed your number plate, please reuse it for the next ride.  If you did already, make a new one using this number and bring to the next ride already attached to your bike.  This will make registration super fast :)

Brooke Umphlett	35:08:00	W3
Ashley Potter	36:03:00	W9
Lisa Brodine	38:29:00	W5
Julie Webb	55:57:00	W103
Dawn Custard	DNF	W7
Amy Sale	DNF	W16

Mountain bikers rule!

All of you B category riders rock!  Thanks for putting up with 6 super fast One Mile Loops!  I didn't know that I was fibbing when I said that the loop was only .5 miles, I must have had a computer glitch or something.  I honestly thought that the loop was .5 miles.  So that means that all of the B category riders did DOUBLE the distance and you all get a tip of the hat from me for pushing yourselves that hard last night.  GREAT JOB!!!  Results will be posted by tomorrow morning.

Lots of Photos were taken of all the riders, so when I get them mailed to me, I'll post them on facebook.  Join Fat Fish Racing on Facebook for the most current news on the team and the ride series.

WOMENS ONLY RIDE THIS WEDNESDAY!!!  Brooke will be hosting it and will meet any and all women to do a group mountain bike ride at 6:15pm on Casper Mountain.  Email Brooke at fatfishracing@gmail.com to find out directions.

The Hogadon Hurt

Get ready for some SERIOUS fun folks!!!  The Hogadon Hurt is going to be awesome, and actually it shouldn't hurt at all for all you B class riders.  While the A course riders are screaming down the side of the mountain and painfully pedaling their way back up (24% grades in some spots) the mountain, all the B course riders will be flying through the Hogadon lodge area in a half a mile loop!  The B course will be fast and fun with just a few very small rolling hills.  This will be awesome to spectate as the B riders will be doing 6 laps!  Not technical and multiple loops..... should be an exciting ride to watch!

Meet at the Hogadon parking lot and head to the lodge so you can get registered.  Ride starts at 6:30 and we will have a pre-ride meeting just before this time.  Raffles and food will follow the ride!


Can't wait to see you tomorrow at The Hogadon Hurt!!

I love EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!

The Hogadon Hurt

Come one, come all to the first ever Hogadon Hurt!  The next Fat Fish Racing Ride will take place on the beautiful and challenging terrain of the Hogadon Ski Area.  As you know, this area is totally closed to all mountain biking and you can get fined if you are caught riding here any other time of the year...... BUT, this Monday the Fat Fish Racing Team and all of our friends (that's you ;) get a chance to ride these cool trails.  The course will be mostly rocky four wheeler/service road but may include some other stuff.  It's called the Hogadon Hurt because it sounds good, this ride won't hurt any more than any of the others.  I think it was Tinker who said, "mountain biking never gets easier, you just get faster."   I like that line!

We will be doing timing and getting series points to everyone again.  There are only 4 more rides left, so each ride will be counted towards the series points.  Don't miss out on this opportunity.  This could be the one and only time we get to ride Hogadon.  But lets hope not!

A and B course will be different.  B's will have a shorter and/or completely different loop than the rest.  Women will ride the B course unless you're an animal and want to compete against the men in the A category.  EVERYONE will need to sign a waiver to ride AND spectate at this area.  Registration will be in the lodge and the bathrooms will be operational for us!!!!!!

Nat's recap

Nationals was so awesome!  Andrea and my brother Chris came to cheer me on as I attempted to reach my goal of becoming a pro mountain biker.  Long story short, I didn't make it.  Since I ruined the ending, you don't have to read the rest if you don't want to.  If you want to, here it is.

The race started at 7:30am on Saturday but we drove into Sun Valley, ID on Friday morning.  Had a big breakfast of eggs and potatoes before we found the parking lot to the ski resort.  The venue was sweet!  Lots of tents from the pro biking teams and a lot of bikers warming up on the course.  The U23 (under 23) race was about to start so we walked to the starting line to see them call out the big shots.  Jack Hinkens was called to the line 5th and we cheered like crazy people for him.  I used to race with Jack in Minnesota when we lived there 4 years ago and he was a 15 year old Cat 1 racer.  Now he's a Pro with the BMC Factory Race Team.  He's such a humble and nice kid and it was cool to see him place second overall in race.  

As soon as the race finished, I put on my cycling shoes while Chris put on his running and then we went out for a full lap of my race course.  Nice and easy was the plan, but as any of you who rode the Bessemer Hill Climb know, 1000' vertical gain in 2 miles is steep!  It's either your huffing and puffing or you stop.  So I just rode the whole thing getting a great workout in the 90 degree heat.  I was looking forward to starting the race early so that the temps wouldn't be this high.  I sucked down 2 full water bottles in less than an hour.  Hot hot hot!  The decent back down to the race start was amazing!  My new bike, the Kona King Kahuna, handles like a dream.  Seriously, I use to imagine going this fast down hill and having this much confidence.  It's nice to not be held back by my bike.  The whole pre-ride went great.  My legs and lungs felt like they should and the big loop took me about 40 minutes to complete.  Now it was time to rest until the big race start......

At 5:45 my alarm went off and 20 minutes later, after a slice of Andrea's banana bread, a Honey Stinger Waffle, and a bottle of gatorade, I was on my bike.  The city was so quiet as I rolled to the race start.  A few other cyclist were just coming out of their hotel rooms or getting their bikes out of their car.  I felt like I had the edge on them as I was already on my bike!  The race consisted of a 1.7 mile prolog loop and then two 6 mile loops.  I rode the prolog loop 3 times and then did two more short hill climbs for a warm up.  About 45 minutes of warming up.  At another waffle, kissed Andrea, gave Chris a high five and went to the start way early to get a good spot in the line up.

The 19-24 age group wave started and then one minute later it was my wave of 25-29.  They called the top 8 or so guys from my age group to the start, of course my name wasn't called because I have no points.  These guys from California and Colorado who have races out their back door every other weekend accumulate points like crazy.  So I rolled up to the line in the second row.  24 of us in my age group while the kid in front yells out in a cocky way, "now lets all have a friendly and safe race."  "GOOOOOOO", the announcer yells after the whistle is blown and 24 of us stand up and start sprinting out of the gates.  In less than 5 seconds, half of the front row hit the ground in a loud crash and I couldn't stop soon enough.  I flew over my handle bars and over top of the whole first row of racers to the ground with all my weight on my wrist.  Both of my wheels were caught up on another bike with a handle bar weaved through my back wheel and a crank arm in the other wheel.  A couple seconds later I got them apart and was back on my bike.  Andrea said I was the second or third from the end of the group now.  My wrist was seriously throbbing as I looked way ahead to see the whole pack of riders climbing up this short prolog hill.  Only about 100 yards before it narrows to single track.  I went all out and had to go off into the grass and big rocky sides of the road to pass a few guys before I was off my bike and just standing there waiting to get into the single track.  

I sure wish the prolog was longer with more of a chance to split the pack up.  

This is getting way to long.......   

The single track was crazy because passing was really dangerous.  The trail would often drop 10 feet straight down and the turns were very very tight.  Not only that, nobody wants to be passed!!!!  I asked a hundred times to get by people and only 3 or so riders were willing enough to pull over on the trail and let me.  The rest of the pack I seriously had to wait until they slipped up and run by them.  Besides the last 1/2 mile of the hill climb, there was literally no part of the trail wide enough to ride by another racer. All passing had to be done by running because the trail was so narrow.  The decent was awesome again today as I maintained my position in the race the whole time.  I actually gained time on the group of riders behind me :)  The Kona is so sweet!

 From the crash, I ended up passing over 30 riders but it wasn't enough to place top 3 in my age group.  I was a mere 13 seconds from qualifying for pro this year.  The course was seriously fun, just not ideal for a race.  Not knowing AT ALL where I stood in the pack was not ideal either.  I finished 4th in my age group and 10th overall in Cat 1 out of about 200 riders.  This definitely has given me a boost of confidence and I'm already looking forward to next year.  Racing is so much fun and a crash or bad course will never make me bitter.  They are both just another ingredient to cycling that makes it so interesting.  If it was always the same, we'd get bored right :)

 Enjoy the pics.  This was me coming down the "rock drop" as they called it near the end of the course.  Spectators lined this and cheered for you if your run was successful.  I was 2 for 2!  

Ride recap

What a year, what a year!!!  This is so much fun for the Fat Fish Racing team to be hosting this amazing ride series.  We are having some great fun watching all the new faces walk up to the registration table and sign up to ride!!!  Thank you so much for supporting us by coming to our rides but most importantly, supporting Joshua's Foodstore this last ride!  Because of you, we helped donate over 100$ cash and a big box of food to an amazing cause.  Whether you see it everyday or not, there are many people in the area that need the help of Joshua's just to make it by.  Ever lived paycheck to paycheck??  I think we all have.  Lets continue to help the community out for the remainder of the year by having the entry fee to the rest of the Fat Fish Racing events be a canned food item or a dollar cash per rider.  Don't have a dollar?  That's ok, Fat Fish Racing is free for everyone!  This is just a suggested donation :)  We will not turn anyone away!

The last ride was so much fun!!!  LeMan's start.... Bet you weren't expecting that!  It was awesome to see over 60 riders running to their bikes in stampede fashion.  Colby and Kristi dominated the field at this last ride.  Great job you two!  Of course there is always a race at the front of the pack, the team appreciates the new riders, families, kids and veterans of the sport too, who come and ride with us.  Thank you for riding and we hope you finish out the year with us in our next 4 events.  

Ever think you can ride your mountain bike for 100 miles straight???  Ask Matt and Neil how they did it at the Breckenridge 100 this last weekend.  Matt finished in under 12 hours with Neil just a little bit behind that.  12 hours on a bike!!!  That's a fun day!!  Mike is gearing up for a 100 mile mountain bike race in a few weeks while Leif and Matt will be racing in the Laramie Enduro (74 miles)!

I just can't say it enough... Thank You to all the riders who have come to a Fat Fish Event.  I hope that we can all meet up and chat sometime on the trail or at least after the next FFR ride.  See you soon!

Cat A Series standings

Category A Name	Ride #1	Ride #2	Ride     #5	Total
Mike Diesberg	48	49	45	142
Bryce Straka	43	43	46	132
Matt Langley	33	50	48	131
Ben Emery	44	47	39	130
Leif Johanssen	46	46	34	126
Mike Belser	41	42	42	125
Brian Burgfechtel	40	44	34	118
Adam leiferman	50	33	34	117
Keith Wharton	39	35	43	117
Gabe Hatheway	34	36	38	108
Colby Frontiero	49		50	99
Neil Benton	45	45		90
Brook Russel		48	35	83
John Kirlin		38	44	82
Fred Grossman	35	40		75
Jason Webb		37	36	73
Paul Lobdell		33	40	73
Jeremy Boone		33	37	70
Micah Rush			49	49
Eric Christiansen			47	47
Vance Oracion	43			43
Chris… Last name ?			41	41
Joe McGinley		39		39
Matt Jalovich	38			38
Jason Garder	37			37
Josh JaQuot	28			28

Women's and Cat B placing for the series so far

Women's Standings	Ride #1	Ride #2	Ride #5	Total
Airica S		49	49	98
Nicole E		50	47	97
Daniel T		47	48	95
Dawn C		44	46	90
Christy Olson			50	50
Brooke U		48		48
Lisa B		46		46
Sandra W		45		45
Carisse Ludwig			45	45
Molly Elder			44	44
Julie Webb			43	43
Madison Madsen			42	42
Katherine Grunner			41	41
Charlotte Grunner			40	40
Category B Name		Ride #2	Ride #5	Total
Gordon Edwards		49	50	99
Ed Klister		50	47	97
Nathan Cook		43	44	87
Matt Russel		22	49	71
Travis Neebling		34	33	67
Dan Straka		31	35	66
Norm Brown		36	27	63
Alex Custard		22	36	58
Bruce Lamberson		41	17	58
Jack Custard		24	30	54
Clint Connor			48	48
Dustin Shorma		48		48
Bryce Berchenbriter		47		47
Eric Hansen			46	46
Matt Elmore		46		46
Brian Stober		22	23	45
Scott Javis			45	45
Damien Plouzek		44		44
Matt Straka			43	43
Matt Bowman			42	42
Scott Cotton			41	41
Brian Peterson		22	18	40
J.R.		40		40
Trevor Mulkey			40	40
Roy Buck			39	39
Rick Quest			38	38
Ben Winkler			37	37
Cameron Brunnell			34	34
Kirk Kissack		33		33
Craig		32		32
Curtis Buck			32	32
Jeff Chavez			31	31
Daniel		30		30
Gordon Neal		29		29
Keith..wrong name??			29	29
Matt Page			28	28
Rick Quest		28		28
Andrew Ellbogen		26		26
Orin Davis			26	26
Bob		25		25
Sean Tescher			25	25
Max Raver			24	24
Chris Bradfield		23		23
Daron Gruner		22		22
Eric Easton		22		22
George Hepworth		22		22
Harrison J		22		22
Lyle H		22		22
Randy Walton			22	22
Steve Fergusen			21	21
Clint Webb			20	20
Dino Madsen			19	19
Jeremy Bruch			17	17

Category B Time and Points for Lamberson's Loop Ride

Category B Name	Time	Points
Gordon Edwards	16:15	50
Matt Russel	16:48	49
Clint Connor	17:38	48
Ed Klister	18:49	47
Eric Hansen	19:38	46
Scott Javis	20:34	45
Nathan Cook	20:56	44
Matt Straka	21:56	43
Matt Bowman	22:13	42
Scott Cotton	22:30	41
Trevor Mulkey	22:54	40
Roy Buck	23:58	39
Rick Quest	24:11:00	38
Ben Winkler	24:32:00	37
Alex Custard	24:54:00	36
Dan Straka	25:52:00	35
Cameron Brunnell	26:29:00	34
Travis Neebling	27:14:00	33
Curtis Buck	27:38:00	32
Jeff Chavez	27:49:00	31
Jack Custard	28:33:00	30
Keith..wrong name??	29:07:00	29
Matt Page	31:15:00	28
Norm Brown	31:35:00	27
Orin Davis	32:00:00	26
Sean Tescher	33:20:00	25
Max Raver	35:00:00	24
Bryan Stober	36:36:00	23
Randy Walton	38:02:00	22
Steve Fergusen	41:00:00	21
Clint Webb	42:18:00	20
Dino Madsen	45:40:00	19
Brian Peterson	47:55:00	18
Jeremy Bruch	48:07:00	17

Women's time and points from Lamberson's Loop Ride

Women Lap Time	Lap time	Points
Christy Olson	14:35	50pts
Erika Swallu	20:25	49pts
Dani Teeters	24:42:00	48pts
Nicole Emery	24:52:00	47pts
Dawn Custard	30:02:00	46 pt
Carisse Ludwig	30:49:00	45 pts
Molly Elder	32:25:00	44 pts
Julie Webb	42:17:00	43 pts
Madison Madsen	45:39:00	42 pts
Katherine Grunner	45:53:00	41 pts
Charlotte Grunner	45:55:00	40 pts

Category A Times and points

Category A.   Name	Lap 1	Lap 2	Final	Points
Colby Fronteiro	11:24	27:30	42:32:	50
Micah Rush	12:24	30:06:	46:15:	49
Matt Langley	13:01	30:060	46:17:	48
Eric Christiansen	13:04	30:53:	47:47:	47
Bryce Straka	14:04	32:170	49:29:	46
Mike Diesberg	14:15	32:30:	49:41:	45
Kristi Olson	14:35	33:450	51:060	W
John Kirlin	14:40	33:250	51:48:	44
Keith Wharton	15:46	35:140	55:210	43
Mike Belser	17:36	37:470	58:190	42
Chris	17:46	37:000	58:000	41
Paul Lobell	17:49	37:540	58:340	40
Ben Emery	22:26	43:0000	1:01:56	39
Gabe Hathaway	19:22	43:25:00	1:06:56	38
Jeremy Boone	19:24	43:02:00	1:07:12	37
Jason Webb	19:29	43:12:00	1:08:43	36
Brook Russel	19:06	36:37	DNF	35

I apologize for the look of this but I can not figure out how to put an excel on blogger????  So copying and pasting is what I have to do.  And this just looks goofy.  But all the info is there.  Just ignore the extra text around some of the times.  For some reason I can not get rid of it.  Would have had these all up sooner, but our computer that we normally do this on, crashed!  So I had to start everything over.  Hope I can finish the rest soon :)

Mountain Sports Single Track open for riding!

The Monday night course is marked and open for riding. Bruce is fine if you want to ride it before Monday night.  In fact, it will be open for you and your friends to ride or hike for the rest of July.  After July please check with Bruce at Mountain Sports before using the trail.

Directions - Go to Hogadon parking lot.  Park by the big white frack tank on the east side of the lot.  Take your bike 200 ft east, behind the tank, and you'll see the trail.  Ride to the south (right) and you'll complete a 2.5 mile loop back to the start. 

If the dogs follow you, no worries, they know their way home.  Bring your small ring.

Maybe see you out there this weekend!