I picked Caveman up around 7:30 and we headed south. We were engrossed in conversation and missed the exit, so we had to backtrack a bit. Registered about oh, 9 am, parked it and got a sweet 10 minute warm up in.
We had about 20 at the start, close to 350 overall racers, so much for participation flagging when we hit the ski resort courses.
Ed started us after the single speeders, drat. Chris B took off from the start, I got on his wheel, hoping to get past as many SSers as possible before we hit single track, alas we did not get past many, I think Jack was in 3rd at this point. We had little trouble getting around a bunch of SSers on one track and we crested the top, Chris 1, me 2, Jack 3, I think. I was descending poorly, due to my crash Wednesday and halfway down Brad and Sam were on my wheel, Sam got around me and Brad stayed back there till we started climbing the Pavement, I settled in a bit on lap 2, Jack got around me towards the top and put a gap on me, Halfway down the descent on lap 2 I let Henneman around me and I tried to follow his wheel, this seemed to snap me out of my bad descending for the day. When we hit pavement I motored past him. Halfway up the climb, I could see I was pulling Jack back, we were dealing with lapped traffic though. On the double track towards the top, I went around him and tried a small acceleration, small was right. The last descent we had some traffic issues, mostly no problem, but one guy would not let us past, Racer, me,Jack and Paz were piled up behind him, all having a gap between us until we came upon him, finally he let us by, I was glad Jack made it by as well, cause I did not want that to be our race.
I motored on up the pavement and came in with a 14 second advantage over Jack, for 4th, again, 3 weeks in a row on the tweety chair and a pink ribbon.
Lap times
34:27
36:18
35:27
consistency is good, I wish I woulda got a decent warm up in though.
Sunday was 2 hours on Flying Dog with Fred P and Brian H, who I ran into in the parking lot, we got hammered in a cold lighting full down pour in the last 15 minutes of our ride, other than that it was awesome, wait, that was awesome as well.
2 comments:
That's a good finish considering the state of your hand. Check out the part in my post about being backed up behind some dude. Considering where we finished in relation to each other, I guarantee it was the same dude. I'm sure it's even more frustrating when he's not even in your class. Oh well, whatcha gonna do...
Glad to hear the hand survived. I was going to do Flying Dog Sunday and opted for Round Valley. Mistake. I got lost several times and ended up doing the tour de park city. I have no idea where the race course is even after riding allover that place. Someone must have pulled the flags. See you Wednesday.
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