The Making of MST

Happy New Year Everyone.  It has been a great year at MST and many of you have contributed your time and energy to making it so.

A great example of this is Christine Rucker's new video 'The Making of MST'.  Her beautiful photographs, exciting and creative video shots and compelling storytelling show her love and appreciation of what we've done at MST.

If you ride at MST you can make your contribution as well.  Use our paypal account to send your contribution to help maintain the trail you ride and help us design and build new trail.  We can't do this without you.  Many have already contributed, but there are more of you out there that need to step up.  Now is the time.  Enjoy and thanks for your support.

Link to Christine's Video ~ 'The Making of MST'

We Need a Hand ~ Year End Trail Contributions!

2012 has been a year of amazing progress and improvement to Moore’s Springs Trails.  This time last year we were putting the finishing touches on the Original Loop.  In January, we moved to the Campground side of the road and now you have a new 2.5 mile segment there, bringing the mileage to almost 9 miles total, with hundreds of riders every month.  Over the past 3 years we have added a must ride destination to the Triad MTB scene.

All of this has happened because of a committed group of volunteers, race promoters, racers and trail builders.  Moore’s Springs is a great new resource for the mountain bike community and we’re proud of what we've all done together here.  A big thanks to all who make this happen.

We’re not finished!  We’ll slow the pace of new trail construction now, but we’ll be improving  older sections and begin to design new sections that include a Beginner Section and an exciting Expert Section, that will feature some of the most outrageous terrain at Moore’s Springs and the state.  These new sections will make Moore’s Springs an even more exciting place to ride and as always it will be free and open to the public.

To make all this happen we need your help.  Many of you have donated your time, others have donated your funds, many have come to our races and these dollars are very important.  There are still a large number of you out there, who support what we’re building, who ride the trails (some quite often) but don’t have the time or desire to volunteer.  Now is the time for you to show your support.

We've started a paypal account for your monetary donations.  These funds will be used to directly support the maintenance of the trails and the trailhead, to design and build new trails and to pay this year’s payment on the DitchWitch machine that we use to build the trails.  Our goal for this campaign is $3000 and this is easily reachable.  We have over 900 members on the facebook page  a few dollars from each of you will make our goal.  If you value the resource of MST, please take this time to support our hard work.

 

You may Paypal your contribution to:

ridemst@gmail.com

Thank You for your support.

2012 6HR of MST ~ A great MTB community deserve great trails

Well, we said we were going to do it and we did.  1 trail, 2 sides of the road, 6 hours of racing, 40+racers and lots of fun.  A great MTB community deserve great trails and that's what we're about, given the feedback we're receiving it sounds as though we're getting close.

 The Start

 The Causeway actually worked as planned

Thanks to all the great volunteers that have been coming out over this long hard Summer to get the Campground Trails ready to go for this event.

 

Two-Way traffic worked out just fine under the bridge

We have ton's of great photos to share with you including StevO's fb photo album.

 

 Rock Gardens Galore

From out of the intertubes and just down the road in the Triangle area comes VirtKitty's excellent write up at Podium Cafe.  While we're at it, here is VirtKitty's entire flickr photostream from the event.

 Tommy Rogers put in some blistering laps in his first race after a terrible collarbone break

Here are more great shots that show us a view on Charles and Aaron's photos from the day.


For the geekier side of things we have STRAVA files from the whole shooting match.

 Switchbacks and Suffering... it must be a Brave New World

As soon as I find  Kerry's great video I'll post it up too. Update:  I found it.

Finally, a big thanks to all our sponsors, Forsyth Medical Center and Novant Health, Cane Creek Components, DeFeet, Great Outdoor Provision Co. of W-S, local downtown W-S institutions Foothills Brewing and Krankies Coffee, the super supportive bike shops Mock Orange, Cycletherapy and Clemmons Bike Shop, the local Stokes County businesses Dario and Danbury General Store and the super delicious 7 Deadly Zins vino.    Go visit these folks, they make this stuff happen.

2012 6Hr of MST ~ Results!

Here are the results from yesterday's race.  A BIG thanks to all the volunteers who's hard work makes this possible, thanks to all the sponsors who provide support for our efforts and thanks to the racers who show up and put it all on the line.

Full report with photos as soon as possible.


6-Hours of Moore's Springs
October 14, 2012

Results By The Sport Management Group, Inc.

Solo Women
1 Melissa Cooper 19 4 5:29:06.6 32.000 10:17/M
19 1 1:21:52.5 8.000 10:14/M
19 2 1:19:26.7 16.000 9:56/M
19 3 1:24:11.3 24.000 10:31/M
19 4 1:23:35.9 32.000 10:27/M

Solo Men
1 Morgan Olsson 36 7 5:33:38.9 56.000 5:57/M
36 1 45:16.5 8.000 5:40/M
36 2 46:11.7 16.000 5:46/M
36 3 47:15.7 24.000 5:54/M
36 4 48:11.7 32.000 6:01/M
36 5 48:02.6 40.000 6:00/M
36 6 50:50.5 48.000 6:21/M
36 7 47:49.9 56.000 5:59/M

2 Patrick McMahon 24 7 6:23:22.1 56.000 6:51/M
24 1 51:26.3 8.000 6:26/M
24 2 49:58.3 16.000 6:15/M
24 3 53:05.0 24.000 6:38/M
24 4 54:09.1 32.000 6:46/M
24 5 56:11.1 40.000 7:01/M
24 6 59:37.0 48.000 7:27/M
24 7 58:55.0 56.000 7:22/M

3 Bruce Stauffer 21 6 5:12:12.5 48.000 6:30/M
21 1 54:18.1 8.000 6:47/M
21 2 51:20.0 16.000 6:25/M
21 3 51:35.0 24.000 6:27/M
21 4 51:05.7 32.000 6:23/M
21 5 51:31.5 40.000 6:26/M
21 6 52:22.0 48.000 6:33/M

4 Brent Lester 6 6 5:47:26.0 48.000 7:14/M
6 1 47:26.5 8.000 5:56/M
6 2 50:42.3 16.000 6:20/M
6 3 53:32.1 24.000 6:42/M
6 4 58:21.0 32.000 7:18/M
6 5 1:18:56.8 40.000 9:52/M
6 6 58:27.0 48.000 7:18/M

5 Mitch Hopkins 34 6 5:55:14.3 48.000 7:24/M
34 1 48:21.2 8.000 6:03/M
34 2 55:01.4 16.000 6:53/M
34 3 54:40.7 24.000 6:50/M
34 4 1:12:47.9 32.000 9:06/M
34 5 1:00:38.6 40.000 7:35/M
34 6 1:03:44.2 48.000 7:58/M

6 Brad Messenger 23 5 5:05:32.7 40.000 7:38/M
23 1 48:24.5 8.000 6:03/M
23 2 51:33.2 16.000 6:27/M
23 3 57:37.2 24.000 7:12/M
23 4 1:10:10.3 32.000 8:46/M
23 5 1:17:47.4 40.000 9:43/M

7 Mike Cobler 5 5 5:12:31.6 40.000 7:49/M
5 1 56:27.6 8.000 7:03/M
5 2 58:46.5 16.000 7:21/M
5 3 1:02:36.0 24.000 7:50/M
5 4 1:04:38.4 32.000 8:05/M
5 5 1:10:02.8 40.000 8:45/M

8 Josh Heinecke 32 5 5:21:18.5 40.000 8:02/M
32 1 51:45.5 8.000 6:28/M
32 2 58:49.6 16.000 7:21/M
32 3 1:12:06.4 24.000 9:01/M
32 4 1:15:32.5 32.000 9:27/M
32 5 1:03:04.2 40.000 7:53/M

9 Tyler Graf 28 5 5:24:42.6 40.000 8:07/M
28 1 53:40.9 8.000 6:43/M
28 2 58:48.7 16.000 7:21/M
28 3 1:14:28.5 24.000 9:19/M
28 4 1:17:30.3 32.000 9:41/M
28 5 1:00:14.1 40.000 7:32/M

10 Doug Black 27 5 5:27:45.2 40.000 8:12/M
27 1 54:35.7 8.000 6:49/M
27 2 59:57.4 16.000 7:30/M
27 3 1:03:14.5 24.000 7:54/M
27 4 1:13:33.6 32.000 9:12/M
27 5 1:16:24.0 40.000 9:33/M

11 Erich Grant 43 5 5:30:48.9 40.000 8:16/M
43 1 52:18.3 8.000 6:32/M
43 2 58:22.6 16.000 7:18/M
43 3 1:01:30.0 24.000 7:41/M
43 4 1:14:12.7 32.000 9:17/M
43 5 1:24:25.1 40.000 10:33/M

12 Chris Coney 29 5 5:33:21.6 40.000 8:20/M
29 1 56:12.3 8.000 7:02/M
29 2 1:04:14.0 16.000 8:02/M
29 3 1:06:34.7 24.000 8:19/M
29 4 1:16:18.4 32.000 9:32/M
29 5 1:10:02.0 40.000 8:45/M

13 Daren Layman 33 5 5:39:35.7 40.000 8:29/M
33 1 58:10.9 8.000 7:16/M
33 2 59:54.2 16.000 7:29/M
33 3 1:06:29.3 24.000 8:19/M
33 4 1:20:58.7 32.000 10:07/M
33 5 1:14:02.4 40.000 9:15/M

14 Stephen Willis 20 5 5:41:00.0 40.000 8:32/M
20 1 1:01:03.7 8.000 7:38/M
20 2 1:02:30.3 16.000 7:49/M
20 3 1:07:25.5 24.000 8:26/M
20 4 1:08:30.0 32.000 8:34/M
20 5 1:21:30.3 40.000 10:11/M

15 Wells Reynolds 22 4 5:29:43.2 32.000 10:18/M
22 1 1:07:50.1 8.000 8:29/M
22 2 1:19:34.8 16.000 9:57/M
22 3 1:29:39.8 24.000 11:12/M
22 4 1:32:38.5 32.000 11:35/M

16 Rory Lewellyn 25 2 2:20:44.3 16.000 8:48/M
25 1 1:04:30.6 8.000 8:04/M
25 2 1:16:13.6 16.000 9:32/M

Women Duo
1 C. Putman/Bev Robinson. 40 5 5:13:02.2 40.000 7:50/M
40 1 1:02:22.4 8.000 7:48/M
40 2 1:04:06.1 16.000 8:01/M
40 3 59:17.5 24.000 7:25/M
40 4 1:00:21.6 32.000 7:33/M
40 5 1:06:54.4 40.000 8:22/M

Men Duo
1 B. Wellisley/ Tom Rogers 12 7 5:35:53.3 56.000 6:00/M
12 1 43:31.8 8.000 5:26/M
12 2 44:35.0 16.000 5:34/M
12 3 45:35.2 24.000 5:42/M
12 4 46:49.1 32.000 5:51/M
12 5 49:43.2 40.000 6:13/M
12 6 49:41.7 48.000 6:13/M
12 7 55:57.0 56.000 7:00/M

 2 Abe Goorsky / Bradley Lawless. 16 7 5:39:56.8 56.000 6:04/M
16 1 46:34.8 8.000 5:49/M
16 2 51:26.0 16.000 6:26/M
16 3 48:14.9 24.000 6:02/M
16 4 49:30.5 32.000 6:11/M
16 5 47:10.3 40.000 5:54/M
16 6 49:24.5 48.000 6:11/M
16 7 47:35.4 56.000 5:57/M

3 Carl Peltzer / Gabe Szilagyi 13 7 5:41:05.4 56.000 6:05/M
13 1 46:10.2 8.000 5:46/M
13 2 47:12.9 16.000 5:54/M
13 3 47:44.1 24.000 5:58/M
13 4 48:44.3 32.000 6:06/M
13 5 50:05.9 40.000 6:16/M
13 6 51:57.7 48.000 6:30/M
13 7 49:10.0 56.000 6:09/M

4 C. Kimble / M. Comer 41 7 6:05:18.4 56.000 6:31/M
41 1 53:46.2 8.000 6:43/M
41 2 47:02.2 16.000 5:53/M
41 3 54:46.4 24.000 6:51/M
41 4 47:54.2 32.000 5:59/M
41 5 56:59.9 40.000 7:07/M
41 6 50:04.5 48.000 6:16/M
41 7 54:44.8 56.000 6:51/M

5 B. Pendleton / J. Miller 4 6 4:56:16.6 48.000 6:10/M
4 1 45:57.6 8.000 5:45/M
4 2 47:34.0 16.000 5:57/M
4 3 49:39.2 24.000 6:12/M
4 4 50:43.7 32.000 6:20/M
4 5 49:08.3 40.000 6:09/M
4 6 53:13.4 48.000 6:39/M

6 T. Hoddock / Martin 18 6 5:19:55.9 48.000 6:40/M
18 1 50:47.3 8.000 6:21/M
18 2 49:35.6 16.000 6:12/M
18 3 52:26.9 24.000 6:33/M
18 4 53:08.6 32.000 6:39/M
18 5 58:07.3 40.000 7:16/M
18 6 55:49.9 48.000 6:59/M

7 Andy Baker / Brett Ray 17 6 6:30:45.2 48.000 8:08/M
17 1 57:36.1 8.000 7:12/M
17 2 59:41.1 16.000 7:28/M
17 3 59:27.7 24.000 7:26/M
17 4 1:08:50.3 32.000 8:36/M
17 5 1:05:05.8 40.000 8:08/M
17 6 1:20:04.0 48.000 10:01/M

8 Matt Rotroff / D. Vines 8 5 5:02:11.0 40.000 7:33/M
8 1 51:16.5 8.000 6:25/M
8 2 1:02:00.3 16.000 7:45/M
8 3 50:33.7 24.000 6:19/M
8 4 1:22:29.2 32.000 10:19/M
8 5 55:51.1 40.000 6:59/M


9 Josh. Miller / David Harlowe 128 5 5:31:31.6 40.000 8:17/M
128 1 1:16:32.9 8.000 9:34/M
128 2 1:01:51.3 16.000 7:44/M
128 3 1:07:30.4 24.000 8:26/M
128 4 1:03:55.5 32.000 7:59/M
128 5 1:01:41.4 40.000 7:43/M

Singlespeed
1 Eric Sauer 37 6 5:37:22.7 48.000 7:02/M
37 1 49:39.0 8.000 6:12/M
37 2 51:07.2 16.000 6:23/M
37 3 54:15.5 24.000 6:47/M
37 4 58:00.3 32.000 7:15/M
37 5 1:01:35.4 40.000 7:42/M
37 6 1:02:45.1 48.000 7:51/M

2 Myles Peters 7 5 5:09:51.0 40.000 7:45/M
7 1 55:11.1 8.000 6:54/M
7 2 56:24.1 16.000 7:03/M
7 3 1:01:50.9 24.000 7:44/M
7 4 1:08:21.3 32.000 8:33/M
7 5 1:08:03.3 40.000 8:30/M

3 Kelley Montoya 39 5 5:11:45.7 40.000 7:48/M
39 1 55:52.1 8.000 6:59/M
39 2 58:25.6 16.000 7:18/M
39 3 1:02:22.5 24.000 7:48/M
39 4 1:07:29.6 32.000 8:26/M
39 5 1:07:35.7 40.000 8:27/M

4 Chris Coulter 10 5 6:13:52.6 40.000 9:21/M
10 1 1:15:20.7 8.000 9:25/M
10 2 1:20:04.7 16.000 10:01/M
10 3 1:09:54.8 24.000 8:44/M
10 4 1:15:44.9 32.000 9:28/M
10 5 1:12:47.3 40.000 9:06/M

5 Guy Spiher 35 4 4:25:36.2 32.000 8:18/M
35 1 1:01:38.1 8.000 7:42/M
35 2 1:00:12.1 16.000 7:32/M
35 3 58:27.8 24.000 7:18/M
35 4 1:25:18.1 32.000 10:40/M

Trail Building 2012 ~ Brave New World

We've been busy this year.  Here's a look at some of the images from our Trail Build sessions.  A big thanks to all the folks who have pitched in to spend their days (cold or hot) laboring in the woods to bring this all together.  Big thanks to the folks who can't make it to trail builds, but can provide resources that keep gas in the machine and tools in our hands.  A thanks to the racers who offer up their hard earned cash to go head to head on these trails.  It's all about making our part of the world a better place and helping others while we help ourselves.   It all comes together on race day, looking forward to seeing you Sunday!

 

Coming Oct 14th!

Featuring New Trail!

Early registration here.

Race Report: The Meltdown

Well the weather was not hot at the MST Meltdown this past Saturday, but the racing was.  We had perfect Spring weather for this, our first, "all course" XCO race at MST.

Saturday was a busy day in the Sauratown Mountains, in addition to our event there was the venerable 3 Mountain Madness traversing all the high roads of the area, a Marine Mud Run, a Poker Run on the Dan River and generally folks out for a good time all over the place.  All this activity kept our attendance to a (thankfully) manageable level, as we really needed to get our race administration down before we a ready for a big turnout.

 

That said, if we'd had the 300 racer turnout as rumored, the results would likely not have been much different.  The Meltdown brought out some of the heavy hitters of the regional MTB race scene, Tommy Rogers, Wes Richards, Chris Hylton and the returning Wake Fulp with a crew from EastCoasters all combined to create a true hard man field.  Even the Sport categories were hotly contested Eric and Betthney O'Connell from SWVA in attendance. These and others insured that any victory would be hard earned.

Sport and Jr's were in for 2 laps, Experts and SS's 3 laps of the complete South Side Trails.  After a brief rider's meeting we were ready to roll by 10:15.  The groups went out from the newly shorn starting area in two bunches 1 minute apart to insure for some great spectating and folks were not dissapointed. 

The start!

Several of the Elite leaders were putting in consistent sub :30 minute laps and the Sport leaders just over :30 min per lap.  After overnight showers,  the trails were in great shape, fast and grippy.

 

In the end, Gordon Wadsworth from East Coasters was fastest of the fast, punching out 3 laps in an amazing 1:26:02.  That's around :28 min per lap for 3 laps!  Tommy Rogers came in under 1:30:00 for his 3 laps, followed closely by Gabor Szilagyi for 3rd.  Wes Richards was also running very fast times at the front until a flat took him out of the running.

 

 Gordon Wadsworth

Tommy Rogers

Gabor Szilgayi

Eric and Betthney O'Connell did take out the wins in the Sport Categories.  These folks have 'Honorary Local' status due to their frequent trips to MST and their vocal and enthusiastic support for what we do.

Betthney

After the racing, we celebrated with free beer (!) from Foothills Brewery.  Yay!

It was a great day to hang around under the giant oak tree, sipping beer with friends old and new.

Prizes were handed out to the delight of all.  Winners received great components from Cane Creek (including their awesome 110 headset), and from local bike shops (thanks to Clemmon's Bike, Cycletherapy and MOB).   Junior Racers received gift bags and gift certificates from Great Outdoor Provisions in W-S.  Krankies Coffee rounded out the prizes for the podium and provided some super tasty treats to our raffle winners.  Forsyth Medical Orthopedic Center was on hand with free training advice and wellness screenings, you'll see more of them in our upcoming events.

Thanks to all the racers who made the trip to MST and spent their day with us.  We love to have you here.  Now come out for a Trail Build! :-)

Most of all a big thanks to all who worked so hard to make this event happen, MST has the greatest volunteers and supporters I have ever encountered.   

Stay tuned for our upcoming events, especially our big Fall event - The MST 6 Hour on Oct 6!

Full Results

 

Results EXPERT MEN 1 GORDON WADSWORTH 1:26:02 2 TOMMY ROGERS 1:29:19 3 GABOR SZILGAYI 1:36:18 4 WES RICHARDS DNF  MASTERS 40+ 1 WAKE FULP 1:30:18 2 CHRIS HYLTON 1:33:36 3 DAN ALLEN 1:33:56 4 JOSH MILLER 1:38:24 5 MIKE TENNYSON 1:41:07 6 SEAN WORKOWSKI DNF  7 GARY ROACH DNF  SINGLESPEED 1 KEVIN BREWER TIME UNDETERMINED SPORT MEN 1 ERIC O'CONNELL 1:01:38 2 KIRK CHAMPNEY 1:06:51 3 WALT SHARPLEY 1:14:31 4 BRETT RAY 1:26:40 SPORT WOMEN 1 BETTHNEY O'CONNELL 1:29:38 2 KATHIRINE LAYMAN 1:43:18 CLYDESDALE 1 MIKE MANOGUE 1:10:49 2 DARREN LAYMAN 1:25:26 JUNIOR 1 SAM ROACH 1:27:54 2 AARON WORKOWSKI 1:31:48 TEAM EAST COASTERS
Photo Credits: Johannah Stern, Petr Masny, Shelley Carter, Barry Stevenson