This weekend was the 7th MNSCS race and my Birthday. What a great weekend!! We hit up Welch on Saturday to attempt a preride. I met up with Beth in the parking lot and she volunteered to wait for me to get ready so we could preride together. This is awesome because Beth is my competition in the series. Though I feel that she is at a level beyond me and I might not be able to catch her this year.
We started up the first climb (all welch is, is climb after climb after climb) and we slowly began to sink deeper and deeper into the thick substance covering all the trails. After about 10 mins of fighting with the foot deep mud we decided to climb the decent of the prolouge and hit it up backwards. All and All we saw about 1/5 of the course and 1 of the bizzilion hills we would be climbing the following day.
I think it worked out for the best. Had I climbed all the hills on the preride I would have had nothing left for the race.
I came in first in my age group and 3 overall for the women. Not to bad but I was holding out for the 2nd place position. I got beat by a younger gal. After climbing/walking the hills I was spent at the top and spent sometime on the double track recovering. Well Jordan, who is quite the awesome racer would come sprinting by me with a big grin on her face. She loved every minute of passing me up.
Jordan and I played cat and mouse a bit, I would catch her on the singletrack where I had no room to pass, then pass her on the climbs then she would sprint infront of me on the straight aways. We had a good time and warned each other about upcoming sketchy areas and gripped about the upcoming climbs.
In the end, she beat me by 45 secs. I got into a funk near the end and ended up walking my bike down a section, after the section I ran into some fellow team mates taking photos. I swear I was only there for a second, but after the race they said I sat there with them for probably a minute. They were like "what the heck, your racing, GET GOING!" so I suppose I could have had a photo finish. But all in all I was happy about the race and atleast I was beat by deserving folk!
After the race, we had some peace coffee hanging time, I got quoted for an article to be written for the MNSCS series regarding the WElch race. I cant really remember what I said, other than the fact that it included the word "Moist" It outta be an interesting article. Hopefully I sounded smart ; )
We had dinner at Kings Bar & Grill. Great Burgers as usual!!! Then home for a well earned shower and rest.
We started up the first climb (all welch is, is climb after climb after climb) and we slowly began to sink deeper and deeper into the thick substance covering all the trails. After about 10 mins of fighting with the foot deep mud we decided to climb the decent of the prolouge and hit it up backwards. All and All we saw about 1/5 of the course and 1 of the bizzilion hills we would be climbing the following day.
I think it worked out for the best. Had I climbed all the hills on the preride I would have had nothing left for the race.
I came in first in my age group and 3 overall for the women. Not to bad but I was holding out for the 2nd place position. I got beat by a younger gal. After climbing/walking the hills I was spent at the top and spent sometime on the double track recovering. Well Jordan, who is quite the awesome racer would come sprinting by me with a big grin on her face. She loved every minute of passing me up.
Jordan and I played cat and mouse a bit, I would catch her on the singletrack where I had no room to pass, then pass her on the climbs then she would sprint infront of me on the straight aways. We had a good time and warned each other about upcoming sketchy areas and gripped about the upcoming climbs.
In the end, she beat me by 45 secs. I got into a funk near the end and ended up walking my bike down a section, after the section I ran into some fellow team mates taking photos. I swear I was only there for a second, but after the race they said I sat there with them for probably a minute. They were like "what the heck, your racing, GET GOING!" so I suppose I could have had a photo finish. But all in all I was happy about the race and atleast I was beat by deserving folk!
After the race, we had some peace coffee hanging time, I got quoted for an article to be written for the MNSCS series regarding the WElch race. I cant really remember what I said, other than the fact that it included the word "Moist" It outta be an interesting article. Hopefully I sounded smart ; )
We had dinner at Kings Bar & Grill. Great Burgers as usual!!! Then home for a well earned shower and rest.
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