VAHSMTB RACE #2 Roanoke

Today the mountain bike team competed in the race #2 of the Virginia Area High School Mountain Bike League.  With a reduced squad the boys knew every finish would count towards our team total.  As such, each guy gritted their teeth and finished the race.  Certainly the hardest race to date with Varsity completing 18 miles w. 2400' ft of elevation and JV doing 9 miles w. 1200' feet during the race (finish times ranging between 1 hour 20min and 2 hour and 10min).  Top performing athletes for the team were Justin Mitchell and Woody Liles on Varsity and Ryan Tilgner and Alex Kronguard for JV.   

Highlights: 

1. Justin Mitchell: Top 10 Varsity
2. Woody Liles:  Huge effort with a really strong Varsity finish
3. Ray Wu: Gutted it out for his first JV finish!!!
4. Alex Kronguard: only minutes behind Ryan Tilger.  
5. Ryan Tilgner:  Top 20 JV.  

We will know more details when the race results are posted on Monday.  In the meantime check out http://wfsoutdooreducation.blogspot.com/ for pictures and congratulate the ten guys who traveled on a job well done.  Just finishing this race was a huge success!  

Season Notes: 

*After the first race of the season the WFS mountain bike team sits in fourth in the league right behind Miller School of Albemarle.  

TEAM COMPETITION AFTER THE FIRST RACE: 

1) Pure XC

2) Eastcoasters

3) Miller School of Albermarle

4) Woodberry

5) Blue RIdge School 

6) Armstrong

*practice video for those intersted.

http://youtu.be/a02fKZXfeUI

Woodberry visits Blue Ridge Trails

Dero Fix It Bike Station!!

Woodberry Forest School recently installed a Dero Fix It Bike Station at the Barbee!  A Fix It bike station allows 24/7 access to bike tools and pumps for the community and is a popular addition to most major cities and college campuses.  This station will allow members of the Woodberry community to work on their bikes, fix flat tires, and learn basic maintenance of bicycles.  A huge thanks goes out to the Woodberry facilities guys for installing this for us today.

VAHSMTB Race 1: Richmond

The Woodberry Forest mountain bike team headed to Richmond yesterday to compete in the Virginia High School Mountain Bike League.  We had fourteen guys representing WFS at the starting line.  In total there were 130 racers at the race.  The boys fought hard and gutted it out on a very difficult course.  Given that this was only the second time on single-track for most of the guys, yesterday was a huge success.  Hands down the highlight of the day was when the entire team rallied together to go out on course and encourage our last finisher to complete the race.  In my opinion, it's a testament to the brotherhood these guys develop at Woodberry.  It was a really great and inspiring day.  Look for us in Roanoke on 4.12!

Top 3 scorers by place for WFS: 
Varsity
11: Justin Mitchell
34: Thomas Lee
39: Hines Liles

Junior Varsity
28: Bennett Setzer
31: Paul Parker
32: Ryan Tilgner



Full results can be found by clicking here:

Random pictures of the guys

WFS Mountain Bike Team Works With Charlottesville Community Bikes

The Woodberry Mountain Bike Team headed to Charlottesville to help this great organization out.  Currently transitioning to new management, Community Bikes needed some help to get the doors back open for the public.  Given their mission and proximity to downtown, many of Charlottesville's less fortunate rely on Community Bikes to help them keep their primary mode of transportation working as well, as learning how to fix and care for their bikes.  The Woodberry guys hauled away scrap, organized bike parts, disassembled bikes and built bikes to help get the shop back up and running. 

For more info: CVille Community Bikes 

Woodberry Forest Ropes Course Instructor Training

After considering twenty-eight applications, the selection committee chose fourteen boys to be Ropes Course Instructors for the 2014-2015 school year.  These boys took part in a two-day low ropes and facilitation course during the first two days of spring break and will be shadowing veteran instructors this spring and attending evening training on belaying and knot-tying in preparation for the Fall.

Woodberry RCI Training 2014 from Nolan LaVoie on Vimeo.