Super physical course that was almost all transition. For me that translated into very technical. The warm up lapped kicked my butt and held some surprises - the uphill whoops had a pedal smacking risk if your pedal stroke was mistimed, the tunnel was full of mud - quite the surprise on the warm up lap, the flat whoops were really tough to maintain velocity on without getting air on the first two and pedaling through the rest. The run up was a good challenge, the "big downhill" was super scary and the loss of momentum on the way up the other side was quite the stomach flip-flopper.
Ruth and I entered the 35+ masters race which we started with the masters men. In the race I must have taken every line through every technical-to-me section of the course. They all seemed to be the wrong lines. Despite one lap in which I seemed to have completely forgotten to how to ride a bike, I managed to keep the rubber side down.
Approximately 10 minutes after I finished the 35+ race, the open women took off. I had time to run to the rest room and poke a bunch of mud out of the brakes and fork and get started again. The second race was no easier than the first though the course had dried out a bit. That made some of the snottier spots easier to ride but the thicker mud dried up more; making the ruts harder to deal with.
It was a tough day of racing, but probably good for me. By the end of the second race the "big downhill" with it's short steep climb afterwards was starting to make me feel a bit motion sick. I stayed for the open men's race afterwards and took some video footage. That is posted on YouTube.
Jim Danvers was out and he got me in shot 4445. Jim's pictures are at Jim Danvers Photography.
Links to the results are up at the FLCC webpage.
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