Hood River: Race #1 of Oregon Super D Series

Memorial Day weekend brought together approximately 250 mountain bikers to Hood River's Post Canyon to race one of Oregon's most epic trails. The course covered a variety of technical terrain that had everything from rocky high-speed descents to sweet, flowing single track. It dropped 3,000 feet in seven miles, and had close to 400 feet of climbing to even the racing field between the baggies and the lycras.

Sunday morning's Super D race run started off great, hitting all of my lines that I had been practicing and not flatting in the high-speed, rocky upper section. All was good until I arrived at the first climb where I was reminded that I had been focusing on Downhill racing for the past five years. Official race time clocked in at 22:52, tying for 5^th place overall despite a surly run-in with a Northwest Douglas Fir that sent my bike half way down a ravine close to the finish.� First place honors went to Oregon native, Nathan Riddle and the complete results of all categories can be found HERE.

An excellent slideshow recap of racers and the course can be viewed on Vital MTB.

Turner demo fleet at Hood River

Pro Mens podium

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