Alrighty Mudhunnies. This will be my first attempt at a race re-cap...and I've got pictures!!
My boyfriend and I headed out for race #3 at Snowshoe, WV on Thursday 8/17. It was our 3rd race and both of us we're looking forward to the race and then watching the pros at Monster Park on Sunday.
If you haven't heard Snowshoe has a reputation of always being sloppy muddy all the time....well not this weekend. The conditions were perfect, even a little too dry at times. The course was super fast with some long rocky fireroad sections that you just had to let off the brakes and hold on. The top of the course was a section of berms followed by a huge 30ft road gap (for the pros...intros and most amatuers went around)
Dhchix, myself and a couple of other woman racers hooked up for some runs on Friday which was a blast! It was great getting to ride with some other women. I rode almost all day on Friday hitting the course 3-4 times and then actually getting some runs down the freeride side of the mountain. That side is full of roots and down right dangerous most of the time in the wet :hot: so I was happy to get to ride it while it was dry.
Saturday I took one run down the course and then they posted start times. I was the first one in my category (Intro women) and the first one down the course for the day!! I was happy to get out first!
My run went great with no wrecks and no problems at all. Here's the only picture I have. It's in section of new trail that was very loose and dusty.
At the bottom of the course as I was waiting for my boyfriend to finish I talked for awhile with one of the other woman in my class who had beaten me by 2 seconds in my last race at Wisp. She was nursing a bruise after wrecking in her run. Turns out this was only her second race and was also coming from a XC background like myself. Good to talk to her and I'm hoping she'll be up for the last race so we can get some runs in together. My boyfriend finally came down, unfortunately he came across the finish with a flat. He was not happy.
We took the lift back up and dropped off the bikes and gear and hiked down to watch the rest of the racing. Snowshoe got a record turnout with 250 racers, I think it was double the amount of race #2.
We set up at the road gap and snapped pics.
Here's DHchix in her race run.
And here's Missy Giove, the only woman to hit the jump.
I ended up winning my Intro class with a 6.15.09 and was surprised to see I was only 3 seconds off of the winning woman's amateur time. With 17 woman racing in 3 classes my time came in 6th overall. I was thrilled
We stuck around for Monster Park on Sunday only to have the competion eventually rained out and rescheduled for Monday. I did snap some pics of practice.
All in all it was a fantastic weekend and I can't wait for the 4th and final race in the series on Sept 9-10th. It was great to meet some new people out there and get to ride with some other women! DH racing is so much fun, everyone is so supportive.
My boyfriend and I headed out for race #3 at Snowshoe, WV on Thursday 8/17. It was our 3rd race and both of us we're looking forward to the race and then watching the pros at Monster Park on Sunday.
If you haven't heard Snowshoe has a reputation of always being sloppy muddy all the time....well not this weekend. The conditions were perfect, even a little too dry at times. The course was super fast with some long rocky fireroad sections that you just had to let off the brakes and hold on. The top of the course was a section of berms followed by a huge 30ft road gap (for the pros...intros and most amatuers went around)
Dhchix, myself and a couple of other woman racers hooked up for some runs on Friday which was a blast! It was great getting to ride with some other women. I rode almost all day on Friday hitting the course 3-4 times and then actually getting some runs down the freeride side of the mountain. That side is full of roots and down right dangerous most of the time in the wet :hot: so I was happy to get to ride it while it was dry.
Saturday I took one run down the course and then they posted start times. I was the first one in my category (Intro women) and the first one down the course for the day!! I was happy to get out first!
My run went great with no wrecks and no problems at all. Here's the only picture I have. It's in section of new trail that was very loose and dusty.
At the bottom of the course as I was waiting for my boyfriend to finish I talked for awhile with one of the other woman in my class who had beaten me by 2 seconds in my last race at Wisp. She was nursing a bruise after wrecking in her run. Turns out this was only her second race and was also coming from a XC background like myself. Good to talk to her and I'm hoping she'll be up for the last race so we can get some runs in together. My boyfriend finally came down, unfortunately he came across the finish with a flat. He was not happy.
We took the lift back up and dropped off the bikes and gear and hiked down to watch the rest of the racing. Snowshoe got a record turnout with 250 racers, I think it was double the amount of race #2.
We set up at the road gap and snapped pics.
Here's DHchix in her race run.
And here's Missy Giove, the only woman to hit the jump.
I ended up winning my Intro class with a 6.15.09 and was surprised to see I was only 3 seconds off of the winning woman's amateur time.
With 17 woman racing in 3 classes my time came in 6th overall. I was thrilled We stuck around for Monster Park on Sunday only to have the competion eventually rained out and rescheduled for Monday. I did snap some pics of practice.
All in all it was a fantastic weekend and I can't wait for the 4th and final race in the series on Sept 9-10th. It was great to meet some new people out there and get to ride with some other women! DH racing is so much fun, everyone is so supportive.
The first DH ride I ever took (on that bike) was at Snowshoe and I am so glad to see him (that bike was always a him to me) enjoying his new home 
