By

- Holding bicycle maintenance clinics.

- Volunteering as a ride leader/sweeper at local area trails.

- Providing bicycle instruction to new riders, leading rides, organizing kid’s camping/riding weekends, and helping riders choose bikes.

- Being an active and contributing SORBA (Southern Off-Road Biking Association) and IMBA member.

- Performing Trail Maintenance.

- Chaperone/coach for two first-year Jr. racers.  Both Placed 1st at the 2005 US National Championship race in Mammoth, CA.

How I began riding

I try to give back to the sport

When I am not on my bike

For the last 7 years I was a Senior Electrical Engineer for Motorola in Lawrenceville, GA.

My last day with Motorola was 09/16/06. Todd and I sold our home and now travel. Todd started his own Engineering company last year, I am supposed to be working for him...

 

Bio 

(previously– before marrying Todd- Krista Rust from Los Alamos, NM)

Contact Info:

 

Phone: 678-491-0791

E-mail: KristaParkMTB@yahoo.com

website: www.KristaPark.com

I began riding since 2002.  Todd and I grew up in New Mexico and met at UNM in Engineering school. I was born and raised in Los Alamos and Todd in Santa Fe.  We both worked on Electrical Engineering degrees and played city league soccer, but other than that had separate interests.   I spent my free time skiing in the winter and backpacking in the summers.  I kept Todd entertained with many "almost died" stories, lighting at 14,000 feet, sliding uncontrollably down ice fields at 12,000ft, getting myself stuck, alone, on cliffs while skiing out of bounds... I received a ticket for illegal backpacking in Oklahoma (of all places) and was threatened with a trip to jail for skiing out of bound in Crested Butte, CO.  My friends and I camped in ski hill parking lots during horrible snow storms because we didn't have hotel money and wanted first tracks.  I talked Todd into two weekend backpacking trips, but he didn't really take to it.  He played guitar and sang at a local Press Club where I guess I was his groupie. He took karate (I watched him compete/perform for his brown belt) and mountain biked occasionally.  For a couple years we got into waterfowl hunting, training our Labradors and competing in Hunt Tests (similar to field trials). 

When we moved to Georgia in 2000 I tried backpacking but it wasn't the same, I tried skiing in NC but they don't have black runs much less double blacks or extreme areas, we ended up playing indoor soccer on a co-ed team for a couple seasons.  In 2002 some of the guys at work were meeting once a week to ride, we joined them and met quite a few new friends.  Kim Moore talked me into racing my first race in 2003.  I pedaled like crazy, when I crossed the finish line (in first place and about to die) I kept saying: "this is not fun, not at all fun, who said this is fun?...”  But for some reason I kept racing, I did one more beginner race then moved up to Sport.  That year I severed my ACL, gave up soccer and stuck with cycling.

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