Part 1, Trip to Bukidnon and Davao
Seagull Mountain Resort
Cross-country mountain biking from Davao to CDO – a ride that most people think it’s crazy! Travel to Davao just to mount the rigs on the starting point instead of taking a break to some famous nature park in the city. Why am I doing this?
To think of something we believe impossible is easy. When actually looking at impossible thing from a different perspective could somehow give us an idea on achieving at least closer to it. It’s a challenge with uncertain results. A challenge that tests ourselves. Who knows we could actually make it to the next level?
It’s not about how far you’ve traveled on a mountain bike in a day. It’s not just reaching the destination. It’s the experience on the road. The camaraderie, different people bond together on the highway, with amazing sceneries and challenges on both steep ascends and descends!
A couple of months ago, our klub thinks of something to do on the 4 non-working days in Holy Week. We’ve decided to cross-country, from Davao to Cagayan de Oro. I thought about – “am I ready?” Everybody seems so excited about it. I am excited! I am ready! My mind and heart are ready! But my legs aren’t. Mindset won’t work if I’m not physically set to such ride.
Butuan, epic training for Davao.
Epic rides training. There were still 4 remaining Saturdays for epic rides before the Davao trip. An epic ride is a long ride that sums up to more than a hundred kilometers. We have 4 epic rides lined up before Holy Week – Iligan, Butuan, Salay, and Talakag. Iligan has a total of about 160kms, Iligan-CDO-Iligan. We left CDO at 7AM and returned home around 7PM. There are cases that it’s impossible to complete a circuit in a day especially when riding in groups. Unlike Talakag (60kms+) and Salay(140kms+), from CDO going to Butuan City sums up to approximately 190kms already!
Butuan ride was tagged as “unfinished business”. We actually did not push to Butuan when we could still descend our way down to the city after a steep ascend in Magsaysay, a border between Caraga Region and Northern Mindanao. We got injured comrades and decided to halt in Carmen. We wanted to finished the course. I could still make it to Butuan aside from experiencing joint pain in my right knee that started in the mid-part of the ride. But we can’t leave men behind and we can have it next time. To me, Butuan ride was one of the most painful experience I had in mountain biking but it was priceless.
Testing out the walls
Side trips at Quezon, Bukidnon. We left CDO around 5AM. After 3 hours, we stopped at our klubmate’s place and went to our side trips – climbed on the white rock walls of Quezon and took a plunge on its cold spring from caves beneath. Then, we head back to the our klubmate’s place and took our lunch then rest for an hour. We left Quezon around 2PM and continued our trip to Davao City.
DAVAO CITY. We arrived in Davao around 5PM. We had our early dinner with these deep-fried fresh tilapias and then checked in a dormitory at Davao City. There we unhook our bikes from our sag vehicles, put on the tires and brakes for tomorrow’s epic ride. That night, we had a couple of beers just to cool down our gears.
My sleep that night restored me up to 100% health power – a good start for the epic cross-country mountain bike ride tomorrow.
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matay pildi nyo c lance armstrong ug c alberto contador nyo ana preng..3hrs gkan quezon bukidnon-davao city?db gkag quezon paingog overview sakaon na nang dalan dnha?unya mga bike ninyo dli gani kalahus sobrag 48 ang ngipon..matay giunsa man na ninyo?15yrs nako nag roadbike ba,wa pa mi kaengkwentro or nkakaubag kusog sama ninyo ba.pwd muapil sa inyong training?interesado jud mi makat-on ba.matay tanang supplements and powergels and powerbars nagamit na namo…please teach us..hopefully magkta mo one of our teammates,muuli dnha sa cagayan b4 holy week,magdala cyag bike kay muuban sa tour ninyo davao-cagayan-davao balik..
good luck n all the best….
Hello mj, thanks for dropping by. Mas kusog pa gihapon si lance bai haha! You can see some of our rides and events at http://attackcdo.ning.com, puede ka tambay2x diha. You’ll get to know some of the members of ATTACK too. See you there!
merry christmas diha bay richard!pasensya ka na kay natingala lang ning ako cycle mate.paki broaden daw ang inyong epic ride nga morag sayon ra man bitaw ninyo gi trip ang inyong epic ride,la may na mention nga naa moy back-up na sakyanan ug unsay mga gidangatan ninyo starting from davao to buda pa lang ha.ug ang pagpasaka sa overview sa kison,suhito kaayu ko sa dalan kay sige ra ko byahe diha.
unya kita nako sa picture nga flatform pedal pa jud imong gamit,hahhahaha!kalisod anang byahea,silot man pod na,wala mo naka clipless?mora ug mosulay jud ko ug uban sa inyo ana inig bakasyon nako pohon tunong pod sa holyweek.post lang sa akoa unsay mga kontak number ninyo sa cdo.kay kung bakasyon ko sa davao naga-anha jud ko sa cdo kay naa koy bro sa bugo ug inlaws sa terryhills,bulua.treat ta mo ug bugnaw nga beer sa cdo kung magkita ta puhon bay.ang inyong grupo diay sa cdo kay ATTACK?membro sad ko sa terrain challenger 611 sa davao,seguro kadungog na mo anang grupo namo.
mangandam na diay ko daan ani para inig uli nako ug kun makasabay ko sa epic ride ninyo dili sad ko mapugsit,hhahaahhaha.
merry christmas sa inyong grupo bay!
gikan sad sa Quezon-kampo uno to valencia kay daghan sad kaayo ug silot nga sskaon dira labi na nang tungo sa may mga cold spring resort diha,walwal man gani mga sakyanan bike pa kaha?gikan sad valencia to malaybalay,ug malaybalay to bugo-cdo,morag kaubo jud mo ato ba.sa mangima na lang gani nga kaubo ang mga sakyanan diha sa sakaon unya dili sad ko motuo nga makakuha mo ug high speed sa mangima ug 60+kph,wala man intawon tul-id kaayo nga dalan diha unya maountain bike pod inyong gamit nga 44t lang,kami gani dire downslope kay 50+kph road bike na na ha!mao nga tingala jud si MJ sa inyoha kun giunsa ninyo ug sikad nga ang 44t kun mo high speed na mo ug 40+kph,kutaw na kaayo ang pedal ana.unya wala pa ko kadungog ug kakita nga nagbike ana kakusog nga flatform pedal ang gamit.saludo jud ko sa inyoha kung makasabay ta mo ug mapugsit ko ninyo,para dili kaayo mo malayo,bisan sprint na lang gikan sa lim kit kai to puerto ok ra.
Hello bikemaster and danilo. Thanks for commenting. Loud bangs and colorful sparks currently conquers the sky while typing this – Merry Christmas diha mga bai!
To answer some of those question marks, actually, we got on our vehicles (a sportage and hi-lander) and from CDO, we reached Quezon in about 3 hours. After the side trips, we continued the trip down to Davao. We were not in our bikes that time yet.
The next morning (day 2), starting from Davao, we got on our mountain bikes (mostly hardtails and 2 full-sus type mtb) and started to ascend up to Quezon. We stayed there at night. Then, last day (day 3), we left Quezon in the morning and reached Manolo Fortich crossing (Camp Philips-to Davao intersection) around 6PM. So it was a bit difficult when we descend from Alae down to Bugo ’cause some of us (including me) don’t have enough lights to guide our way.
Most of our comrades have pedals that look like flat but actually has a clip lock in the middle. Here’s what my pedals look like:
You can check out some of our DAVAO-QUEZON-CDO pictures through this link: Davao to Cagayan de Oro cross-country mountain biking
merry christmas sad sa imo ug sainyong grupo bay!hinaut ko nga magpadayun inyong tinguha sa outdoor cycling karong moabotay nga tuig sa 2010.cycle safely everytime na nagapedal mo.basin puhon ug makabisita ko sa cdo,dala ko ug bike para makauban sad ko sa mga trail sa cdo bai!wish you all the best and a happy new year!
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