Race Category:  Citizen
What races in 2007:
Occupation: Scientist
Mountain Bike: 2005 Cake 3 DLX by Gary Fisher
Years Racing: 2
Training/Racing Tip: Group rides are a great way to focus on technical stuff and learn different ways to approach things from other FORCS members, and it's fun.  Ride, ride, ride, fall off your bike - humble yourself occasionally and learn from your mistakes - but get back up and conquer it again.  Keep trying that one spot you can't quite make it over/through, try again, try it a different way.  One of the greatest things:  teach someone else something about biking, you'll learn so much.
Favorite Trail/Race: The trail that got me first on a bike was at Lake Chabot in CA and I've been biking since.
Hobbies other than cycling: Camping and hiking with my husband and my two sons, ages 8 and 2.
Other:  I joined the FORCS in 2005 and participated in the DIRT RETREAT and did my first race that year with the FORCS MOMS team and took 3^rd  and raced in the Fall Color festival in the fall and took 7^th.  In 2006 attende the DIRT RETREAT and the HOT MAMMAS took 5^th.