Name: Lisa Evans

Quiver: Santa Cruz Superlite Julianna

Birthday/Age: 9/8/1971, 37

Occupation:  Clinical Psychologist/UAMS Faculty

Favorite Trails: Lake Leatherwood (Dam Overlook, Miner’s), Tsali, Dupont, Syllamo

Favorite Race: haven’t raced as of yet…

Best Finish:  the ones in my dreams…

Favorite Riding Food: nuts of any kind, CLIF shots

Riding Goals: Improve climbs, don’t kill myself on the downhills

Why do you ride: I love to ride.  I even kind of like crashing.  I like dirt and mud.    I love getting lost in the woods because my map got too sweaty to read. 

What kind of advice would you give to beginner riders:   start saving for a nice bike (or 2 or 3…)

Worst wipeout: On a trail outside Seattle, near San Juan Islands, on a steep downhill switchback, my front hydraulic disc brakes busted and I went of the edge of the bench cut trail and somehow ended up with  one foot clipped in, dangling upside down off the cliff, held only by my ankle which was caught between the side of the hill and a log.  Ouch.