hows everybody's racing goin?
tony seems to be the only one posting results, so here it goes.
Race 1: 35 degrees Fahrenheit, snowing, very muddy and slippery. Only have to do 2.5 laps b/c of the weather, rather than three. get about 2/3 through the half lap (first) take a wrong turn, go back, disk brakes give out in the back so i come around for the lap and pick up the other bike (legal in this series) , losing five minutes to change pedals. Get going, five minutes later, brakes are gone again, not broken, just all muddy (V-brakes).
finish: second of three
Race 2:get there get ready, realize i left the clif shots at home, except for one. figure i can go without them till i run out of energy, which is usually 2.5 hours or so into a ride at racing pace. I guess i didn't warm up enough or eat enough or something b/c i bonked about the middle of lap two(of three) Westy saw me bonk
. Come around for the end of the 2nd lap in second, shortly after that i get passed by the kid behind me. My dad got a power gel for me from the people that i know from races last year, take the gel, go, finish 3rd of four.
Race 3: Get there an hour early, watch teh beginners start, preride in flat pedals. get back to the car and realize i forgot my shoes. find a pair of 12's i can borrow, then 11's, then finally 9's (close enough to a 10). change out the pedals get ready to go. race starts on about 3/4 mile of pavement. go into the woods in 2nd or third. about 1 mile into the woods, my front tire slips on a root and my bar hits a little tree. me and the bike almost part ways, but i managed to hold on. get up, nothing broken on me. Front brakes undone on the bike chain comes off the ring and got all twisted around. fix it. gone. everybody passed me. i pass four people by the end of that lap, next lap i catch up to the person in front of me and my chain comes off the little ring again and goes off (later i found out i had messed up the limit screw in the crash.) try to catch up again for the rest of the lap, but i never do, i finish 2 minutes behind him and get fourth.
tony seems to be the only one posting results, so here it goes.
Race 1: 35 degrees Fahrenheit, snowing, very muddy and slippery. Only have to do 2.5 laps b/c of the weather, rather than three. get about 2/3 through the half lap (first) take a wrong turn, go back, disk brakes give out in the back so i come around for the lap and pick up the other bike (legal in this series) , losing five minutes to change pedals. Get going, five minutes later, brakes are gone again, not broken, just all muddy (V-brakes).
finish: second of three
Race 2:get there get ready, realize i left the clif shots at home, except for one. figure i can go without them till i run out of energy, which is usually 2.5 hours or so into a ride at racing pace. I guess i didn't warm up enough or eat enough or something b/c i bonked about the middle of lap two(of three) Westy saw me bonk
. Come around for the end of the 2nd lap in second, shortly after that i get passed by the kid behind me. My dad got a power gel for me from the people that i know from races last year, take the gel, go, finish 3rd of four.Race 3: Get there an hour early, watch teh beginners start, preride in flat pedals. get back to the car and realize i forgot my shoes. find a pair of 12's i can borrow, then 11's, then finally 9's (close enough to a 10). change out the pedals get ready to go. race starts on about 3/4 mile of pavement. go into the woods in 2nd or third. about 1 mile into the woods, my front tire slips on a root and my bar hits a little tree. me and the bike almost part ways, but i managed to hold on. get up, nothing broken on me. Front brakes undone on the bike chain comes off the ring and got all twisted around. fix it. gone. everybody passed me. i pass four people by the end of that lap, next lap i catch up to the person in front of me and my chain comes off the little ring again and goes off (later i found out i had messed up the limit screw in the crash.) try to catch up again for the rest of the lap, but i never do, i finish 2 minutes behind him and get fourth.
