How to Beat the Kokopelli Trail’s Fastest Known Time | Canyon Lux

foreign what time is it wayne we get 6 22. it's 6 22. so that means i have to be at the finish line at 5 18. yep that's 10 hours and 56 minutes 5 18 p.m in time for dinner i like it pizza pizza and beers thanks buddy yeah man thank you oh man go get em [Music] so well first of all brad like where are you uh in colorado right yep in colorado i live in carbondale okay um not too far from aspen here so i'm going to go for the cocapelli record tomorrow or friday and um you know i've kind of been watching like a hawk to see that the trail was clear and there were some unknown parts and then blink i saw it pop up on on the strava the i think you are the first person to do the coca peli in 2021 let alone in one day so congrats you know you you pioneered it for exiting the pandemic hopefully yeah unless somebody did it without strava you never know right but yeah i appreciate that 16 hours right like that's that is insane to me i mean that's why do you want to ride your bike that long like what what is what's the objective for you to do this i don't know that i have a particularly great answer for why right like i just but yeah there's something really special about being out in a place like that where it's just you and your bike and you know you see how far it is especially on the cockpit because you're looking at the lasalles the whole time so like you see where you started i'm guessing you brought lights with you or was it the moon was good or definitely no moon when i started a little bit of moon when i finished because i finished in the dark as well oh my gosh um yeah so it looks like i was looking at your stride this morning it looks like you rode like pretty much the whole route huh yeah except for the first climb i mean i've never done it and to try to make an attempt on it like i think just knowing it helps a lot yeah this is my crow's skull i rub it it helps me fly up the mountain stay light as a feather beautiful day now we are gonna ride the second half of the kokopelli trail i think it's helpful to know the trail because on something that's as long as 10 or 11 hours that you're going to save 20 30 minutes just knowing what's coming and how to dose the effort instead of just sending a site on scene i'm spending two days recalling catch my breath in moab and then we're gonna go full state [Music] so yeah i'm gonna start getting dressed i like how yours is the bike that's covered in camp chairs and mine's over there all i'm planning on being out for five hours so basically i got hour one hour two hour three get me through hour four you kind of with the blocks you can kind of uh nurse them you can grab two or three at a time and then just in case in the end this is my favorite the kitty bars it's like this is a real cookie actually and these are real easy to get down so if you just need like a shove it all in your mouth at once amazing energy never struggling with the flavor i race these are a very important part of my my program if you're a kid at heart you can need a kid's bar right all right you're at i'm gonna call it 60. for the effort i want to basically run 17 19. it's literally like half of what all right man okay time to go biking all right okay what is the draw of fkt and i'm talking you know for some people the funnest known time like i just actually talked to a guy who did the first coca-pelli of this year last week he did it all in one day in 16 hours nice um you know in terms of you know you guys being the record holders um what's the draw of going the fastest like why turn yourself inside out for 11 and 13 hours respectively for me it's interesting and it really at first it doesn't make sense but if you think about it i think it does that when i'm trying to get somewhere as fast as i can i have to be so focused that i actually ride the most present of any other ride because you can't think about like where you started or where you're going at least i can't like in altars is i have to focus on just really small chunks at a time and that just makes me be so tuned into my body and the landscape and my bike and and so that heightened awareness of the present is ultimately the thing that i find so captivating about it like a 10-hour flow meditation i'm gonna try it tomorrow where did you guys filter did you try to find like the streams higher up and like filter early are you just dealing with that colorado river in the second half hey hey i got water at fisher creek and at mcgraw in the colorado river yeah i've usually done the same thing when i've ridden it [Music] let's go homie is fast man good battle all my time on the climb and it's literally been at the same time for the last 30 minutes or sorry two and a half hours but i've thought this is my second water stop hopefully he has to stop at some point a lot of razors out there [Music] uh so dusty out there all righty second half [Music] i noticed just doing a little bit of pre-writing that it's like it almost like rolls out in chapters right like you have like the lasalles and the mountains and then like the really chunky like i had no idea like there's like 10 minute hike bikes in this thing man like yeah it's a legit mountain bike route even though there are some long sections of gravel in places like kind of rough gravel the the jeep roads like in that area you're talking about those are really legitimately challenging both up and down lachlan flatted out in that and cracked his rim on that when he rode it and i know quite a few people have crashed hard on those sections and then the end of it has this really challenging single track too that you know it's not that hard in and of itself but when you hit it after 130 miles and you've got like 10 miles of kind of ledgie rocky stuff to navigate like your legs are barely holding it together and your focus is barely holding it together and that becomes like really a legitimate challenge there to keep whether it's to just not crash or to keep your legs from cramping or whatever it might be [Music] so [Music] do [Music] looks like we're at about 205 kilometers that means he's got roughly 20 to go and so far he's at 9 hours and 12 13 minutes so we're cautiously optimistic but uh this section of trail he's got coming in here is filled with shelves and drops and kind of everything not to mention it's a spectacular place to ride so there's tons of people so uh finishing stretch but it's not an easy one so are you filming are you filming that guy yeah here we are because he passed us like we were standing still well then how did you guys get here first we took a different way no we passed him he yeah there you go he had a hard time writing down into salt water and so we just we just went right by him yeah how did our man look when he saw him he was fast nice i was going to ask him what he was up to but then i didn't want to slow him down he might have been in the stage where it was just silence at that point he uh no he gave us this he recognized he said hey oh that's awesome okay so he's a nice guy we're gonna give him that who had it um somebody just cut rest night did it right like was it nine hours or something uh 10 46 no sorry 10 56 is the time he's trying to beat right now okay so how is he doing he is i haven't been watching my phone and didn't you look at him he was going really fast tell us what's going on yeah you know um this section is so slow and chunky um and it's steep pitches up and steep pitches down and rocks that want to slice your tire and you know in part of me knows i'm pretty far up at this moment like don't flat your tire don't break something don't break yourself don't take a chance and anyone who's watching this is going to be like this guy's a pro bike rider like what the hell you're kind of seeing stars at this point you know you're rationing your water you rationing what sugar you have left i just didn't really trust myself that much at that point oh there's that blue jacket i passed these two bike packers and i had to wait for them on this gnarly hike-a-bike section and you see me look back at the blue jacket and i'm kind of like uh like it's mother earth day and karma like should i try to yell at them but and i think they were bike packing but then i was like nah i can't do that so another dismount yeah i look really bad it's just again you have to realize this is after 10 hours and this is the last 12 miles and you've been going well over 12 miles an hour all day you think it'd take an hour and it takes like an hour 40 and i think i actually hemorrhaged like five minutes back to kurt just in this last bit and then you get across the river and then you have this other crazy technical climb that's just 20 little run-ups yeah that was running in my mind that was as fast as i could go foreign jesus [Applause] uh and there's another dude who was just like he must have seen what i was doing i was going hard and just waited on the side of the trail i was making ape sounds at the end um and then later on the trail there's this one ridgeline again like within the last five miles and there's the colorado river beneath you and it looks so refreshing and nice and it's just this gusty winds weapons just pick yourself over a rock over a rock four miles an hour and i just start yelling like f you mother nature you're like i was just angry at everything and then i hear all these voices and there's this whole group of rafters like 400 feet beneath me on this cliff and it just got really silent for a moment and i just i felt so bad this is the final downhill and it's fun and chunky and actually riding it the two days before i pinch flatted these brand new prototype tires the first time i'd flattened them since you know i use them for the white rim and all of that so i was actually really trying to nurse the tires just it made me nervous you know it's just so much sharp rock out there the waiting game why are we standing here why are we standing here this is the finish for the kokopelli trail and it's a little bit with these fkts it's a little bit uh ambiguous as to where the actual line is because it's all done digitally uh with using gps so we think it's somewhere around that cocapelli sign that's right there but um when he comes in he'll actually sprint past it just to ensure that he's got the uh the finish line dialed [Applause] you know there's a there's a little bit of the fkt community that says you know if there's a film crew that's external motivation it's not just you and mother nature and and the film crew was actually really just a fly on the wall but i mean wayne doesn't care he's just so stoked the whole time he's just the biggest cheerleader and you can't take that stoke away from anyone so i think he's actually more excited than i am that was awesome oh [Music] oh was the stupidest thing i've ever done i mean it was great but that was that star was freezing it snowed up there that's so when you started we're like we're going to that castle valley thing just in case like there's no sense in hypothermia or anything and uh is it all wet up there um i was furious when i hit the wet tarmac i can't imagine what you were feeling i was lucky that that stuff was so muddy like if i touched uh dirt it started to bog so i actually had to like ride on the the crown of the double track where there was like a snow tread oh damn so i was riding on the snow i was losing time but i kept the bike clean yeah oh yeah okay we're done good job guys oh good job team yeah team fkt what's your stand for again so it's also nice you know on a the little racer in me is like you know put your stamp on this course i mean i am the record's been you know it will be broken probably before this video airs and which is fine you know it's and that's not really my goal is to hold these things forever but it's to to highlight this trail and and the community that's doing it and you know hopefully bring something to it um and internally i like it you know i i left it all out there and i i find pleasure in that so um there's got to be another cool trail to do that somewhere else where are we going next [Music] private ties sure move along move along [Music] oh my gosh i ate more on this ride than i ever have in an effort though and i needed every ounce of it did you finish all your food i have one gel left and it was at the end like i actually had two and i got to like five miles to go i was like i'm gonna have to take this gel i just want to get down there like i don't want another sugar bomb but yeah um i had to call that the stuff i feel like you just ordered half of the board sorry i'm all stoked it's uh this is this is what i'm happiest when the bikes haul all set to go ready to rip double triple quadruple checked everything [Music] it's all on him now who just texted mr kurt ruff schneider um again he's all behind this he just wants to know how it went and and all that which is really cool he's all for the the furtherment of this thing so um more that's what's impressive is how from our two and a half to five we literally had the exact same time like after the big climbs i had a like a 11 minute lead it said on the segment and uphill i would gain a minute downhill he would gain a bit all the way until the halfway point and i was just like this this guy is just good putting this thing on until someone comes and takes it from me [Music] four coca-pellis one for every life i lost [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Thu Jul 22 2021