Falcon Flow: A "Flow Trail" With A Dash of Moab Flavor 🌵

All right, welcome back to the channel. Today, we're on the second day of the Moab trip and we're about to do a shuttle trail called, well, you don't have to shuttle it, but it's called Falcon Flow. And we have a limited crew today because everyone is absolutely beat from doing the whole inch of law yesterday. So this trail apparently is probably one of the more fun, specifically built or purpose-built mountain bike trails here. So it's supposed to be super flowy, kind of jumpy. So again, I have no clue what to expect. So we're experiencing this for the first time together. So, all right, it's go time. So I'm still riding with a bent crank because I caught it on a shrub yesterday while we were riding Porcupine Ridge. So it feels all funky when I pedal, but we'll make it work. Luckily, most of this trail is downhill. All right, so this trail is called Falcon Flow. And I'm assuming, given the name, that it's going to have a little bit of flow. It's beautiful here. I know, I would agree with that. I can tell you after yesterday, my body's feeling it. You know, I don't wear sunglasses often while riding, but this is definitely one of those places where I kind of wish I had some. Trevor is feeling awfully peppy today. Funky lines over here. This is really cool, because you can maintain your speed pretty well without pedaling. You just kind of pump in. Yeah, you can basically just pump the terrain and gain speed. So this trail, I think I was mentioning, was purpose-built for mountain biking. A lot of the other trails that are around here are multi-purpose. So it's for hiking and biking and whatever. Some of them are even open to motorized vehicles. So this one's pretty unique, I guess. Oh, wow. I'm very tempted just to drop off the side. Is that the trail? Here's the line. Drop down this and get up over there. And that's even me against Trevor. I think we can do it. All right. How do you get traction on the off-camber-ness? And a bar snatcher. It's a pretty good beginner trail, but still pretty fun. Well, it's so different for us too, right? Because you come around a corner and you want to charge, but it's flat and it's sandy. And then you're like, oh, good thing I didn't overcook it. It would be a good warmup trail for people next time I'm in Moab. Because I find like this slick rock, it's a bit too jerky for some people. They're just like big lunge moves where this is like more of a trail. Yeah, no, I agree with that. It's kind of nice to have a shakedown ride. When you get to like these chunky sections, I like to give a little bit more of a gap just so in case someone gets stalled up in front, you don't run into them and stall up and dab. So back there, you could definitely tell that they'd done some trail work. There's definitely some rock work done over there. Really nice rock work too. Super smooth. Yeah. So Trevor was mentioning that he's having a hard time reading the trail because, well, here there's some blue blazes on the ground to let you know where you're going. But a lot of times, kind of looking for like the spaces in between or like the like little trail that's barely identifiable. Just like a little bit more cleared out compared to like over there. He's from BC, I'm from Vermont. So we're both basically used to trails that are flanked by trees or like ferns or something. It's way easier to read a trail on the fly, at least for us. I wonder if it's different for people who grew up riding here. A lot of people hit their pedals here. Boink. That loose sand on top of the rocks. Yeah. I did the same thing until you like stopped. It's cool though. Outcropping or like inlets are super cool. I don't know what you want to call that. I just want to say this because like I want to find a cool line but then I might end up like wildly off the trail. And then like everyone- If you're looking for a cliff, you never know, right? Because I'm like, I want to do this, but oh no, that's not the trail anyway. Really have to pay attention. Oh yeah. That's awesome. I like that better than almost anything we did. Oh yeah? Yeah, it's awesome. You can actually pump and maintain speed and we're not pedaling downhill. Yeah, that's awesome. What's wrong with pedaling downhill? It's really fun. Really fun. All right, let me edit you out of the video. Let's see if you can figure out the trail. It probably feels like you're painfully slow following someone because like they're finding all this stuff and you're just like, oh. But like when you're in front, like you can't, yeah. All right, now I'm the one leading. Let's see how this goes. Yeah, like here, it's hard to read where the trail's going. There's like a 90% chance that at some point I'm going to go off the trail. Sand on rock. Yeah, trail's like not going where I expect it to go. Come on trail, go downhill. Oh, come on. So much nicer following it. That wasn't straight off and just like do what you do. It's way different. It'd be the hardest trail to race unless you really, imagine racing this blind would be mental. I was actually thinking about that. Moab Rocks is like those other places are the same way. So basically like the road we even came up here that we drove. The start of the stage is like in town, ride up that road to about a thousand meters and then go down Porcupine to the bottom. Like that was stage one. So I mentioned it in my last video, but everyone who we're riding with today works at Noble or is a spouse or significant other of somebody who does. Oh man. How's it going? Hey, what's up man? Okay, this is a good grade. I like this. Someone took a no, no line. All right, my heart rate's at 180 here. I need to back it off. All right, 150 is a little bit more manageable for me. It's always kind of interesting to look at your heart rate zones, see where you really start to fatigue. What's like a high heart rate for you? Racing would be like 178 is my like race pace. And you can hold that forever? Yeah, like three cars. That's incredible. Yeah, going to school for like with a collegiate program, like just like, I didn't understand heart rate zones. Like all like the cross country and like road cycling. I'm like, yeah, I have to go do like a, yeah, threshold effort. Or I like, I can't go above zone two today. Just like a recovery ride or like, to me it was just like downhill. I'm like, ah, go, go, go. Like send it, sleep, eat. So when I do an endurance ride, not to get a gain from like, you know, punchy fitness. He'd only let me do up to 65% of my heart rate. Okay. But long. So you do shorter, harder workouts, slightly longer, slightly less hard, slightly longer, slightly less hard. And you have some recoveries. And then your final day is like, go ride with friends, but like do not go over 65%, even on the downhills. You're kind of like, you feel like naturally you ride at about 80 to 85% of your heart rate. If you're just having fun, you don't feel like you're having fun at all. All right. This way. Ooh, this looks interesting. Spicy. It's about a jalapeno on the spice-o-meter. Wish it was pitched down a little bit more, but. There were some moments I should have taken a foot off. Like I was so sideways. It's surprisingly okay though. Yeah. Every time I was like, oh, okay, I'm fine. The more you go in the sand, the more it's packing. And then it gets stiffer and stiffer and stiffer. Hi, I think that's where we're gonna end off this video. Or we might add some more video later today. So depending on my energy levels, this might be halfway through the video or it might be the end of the video. So I'll find out when I go to edit this video. So see you guys next time. Peace.