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Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race
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First off, A+ on the website design. https://www.oregontrailgravelgrinder.com/

I'm heading there with a crew of friends from Seattle, I believe 'Carl Spackler' is headed up as well. Curious if there were any others getting in on the party?

I'm super psyched about the excessive amount of Type 2 fun that's going to be had next week.

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Had to bail, unfortunately. Work + life created a detour.

Have fun up there, should be awesome.
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [Carl Spackler] [ In reply to ]
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Bummer!

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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I'll be there

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Relying on you to heckle Lieto for me (Chris Lyman). He'll deserve it for something or another. Enjoy, will be FOMO from afar.
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [Carl Spackler] [ In reply to ]
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Ha! I'm way ahead of ya! I harass him over text on a weekly basis. He's still a no go for the event tho, Doc's orders. :-/

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Be careful fording the river.

And try not to die of dysentery. šŸ˜‚


float , hammer , and jog

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [Murphy'sLaw] [ In reply to ]
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If you bail and have to hitch a ride back to Bend early you get a shirt that says just that ;)

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Good luck to you all.

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Off topic, but that's some signature that you've got........

Pink? Maybe. Maybe not. You decide.
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Iā€™ll be there. Iā€™m signed up to ā€œrace,ā€ but looking forward to just riding it. Iā€™ve raced a lot this season already, and this seems like a fun way to decompress and just enjoy my bike.
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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I am planning to do it next year. I look forward to hearing about how it goes.

"There may be men that can beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it." Steve Prefontane
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Unfortunately on the bailing bandwagon as well....excessive work travel blah blah blah....was really looking forward to it. Couple of mates from Vancouver are going down. I'll be shooting for next year
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [Zulu] [ In reply to ]
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NOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Woulda been good to see ya. Maybe i'll do a write up here about it.

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [ironclm] [ In reply to ]
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thanks! :)

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [japarker24] [ In reply to ]
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Old career
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New career

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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More bummed now i know you guys are going!!! yeah doing a daily stage by stage write up here would be fantastic!!
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [Zulu] [ In reply to ]
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i'll try to put something together. No promises! might be too smashed at the end of each day to think!

36 kona qualifiers 2006-'23 - 3 Kona Podiums - 4 OA IM AG wins - 5 IM AG wins - 18 70.3 AG wins
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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I'm in. I literally quit my job to make sure I didn't miss this.

Not too many locals.
Last edited by: tri_yoda: Jun 14, 19 19:22
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Hoping to cheer on last couple days and have a beer with everyone at the finish
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Looks interesting. Could you post your bike setup?
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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Man this look so fun. Hope to do it some day!

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [GAscott] [ In reply to ]
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I'll do my best to file some reports on this thread and will include pics if the camp micro cell tower offers enough bandwidth to upload.

Already shipped my bike to the event. I haven't got a super bling rig but I really love the ride and think it's gonna be perfect for the race.

36 kona qualifiers 2006-'23 - 3 Kona Podiums - 4 OA IM AG wins - 5 IM AG wins - 18 70.3 AG wins
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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [MarkyV] [ In reply to ]
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have fun! Oregon's pretty cool.

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Re: Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder Stage Race [Dr. Tigerchik] [ In reply to ]
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Report from the Trail. Stage 1 and 2 were spectacular, donā€™t want to be cliche but maybe a little epic. Got down to 37 F at the top of the big hors categories climb today with some snow and hail reported.

Itā€™s like bike summer camp for adults. There are these cool kids who are going out and hammering the courses, the rest of us are just trying to survive. Of course there are lattes and massages in camp to help us along.

Rations are filling, plenty of good water, and tonight we get our whiskey and beer rations. The logistics of putting this on are difficult. Totally impressed with the race organizers keeping things moving really well on a point to point race that is going through the middle of nowhere most of the time. The director just gave us a ride in his RV to get showers.
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