The much anticipated return from retirement of former Mountain Bike World Champion Alison Dunlap (Luna Women's MTB Team) will include racing in the inaugural edition of the Breck-Epic. She will be competing in the Coed Open category with her husband Greg.The Breck-Epic is a 6 day stage race held in Breckenridge, Colorado. The race will begin with a 10 mile uphill prologue on July 5th. The race boasts of nearly 200 total miles of racing with 40,000 vertical feet of climbing. The majority of the race course, which winds around the Colorado resort town, will occur above 10,000 feet of elevation.
For more information about the Breck-Epic visit www.breckepic.com
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While training and living in her new home town of Yucaipa, California, Pua Sawicki (Ellsworth) hooked up with the newly formed Yucaipa high school mountain bike team. The team is part of the So-Cal interscholastic cycling league which was started this year by Quinton Easton. The boys call her coach and she works with them on everything from technique to nutrition. She almost always brings along her dog Koa, who runs along with the boys as they train and has become the team mascot.This Sunday will be the first race for the league and everyone is really excited. Sawicki had the team over to her house this weekend for a clinic, teaching them how to keep their bikes up and running and including fixing a chain break on the trail.
The team is made up of around 20 boys (no girls yet but they're working on it) and three coaches, head coach Mike Bagg who teaches Geometry & computer science, Scott Kennedy who teaches English & digital publishing and Pua.
The Ellsworth rider enjoys seeing the kids get so into the training and racing while helping insure the future of the sport. For more info on the league go to socaldirt.org.
