Once again, our California camp was a huge success. But honestly, it’s hard not to have a good time here. The network of beautiful farm and canyon roads is so plentiful it looks like someone dropped a strainer of spaghetti noodles onto the map and put a road everywhere a noodle fell.

A lone rider on Prefumo canyon road outside of San Luis Obispo. Photo Tom Robertson

On top of the epic riding, there’s great surfing nearby, which Brendan thinks is better than swimming for triathlon training. It’s definitely quite a bit more fun than swimming laps, we think. We even got out for a mountain bike ride on our “recovery day.”

Brendan considers his options. Photo Tom Robertson

We picked a few apples from the orchards while on our rides, drank a bit of local wine, and ate great food like seared duck breast with local fig compote, chive risotto, and grilled asparagus.

Bill Nicolai earns his dinner on the climb up Prefumo Canyon before descending into orchards and vineyards. Photo Tom Robertson

Photographer Tom Robertson  was on assignment during camp and he captured tons of amazing images- including this candid shot of Brendan about to lose the plank competition during our trademark “Core on Shore” event. Andy claims he was trying to help by keeping the sun of his back. Kim Helgans of Cal fame took home the gold.

Brendan battles to stay up

Stay tuned as we’ll be posting more great pictures from Tom.