here's my little race report. stacked pretty hard on saturday b/c of some idiot on the xc course. otherwise. awesome time. gunna be seeing me in spandex more often now.
Climbed to packer like a mad man, was told i was 6.5 minutes behind the leaders before pulling into sunrise trail after about 1:13 on my ggps. got stuck behind tons of people on sunrise. spun fine over to Paulie creek. passed people like crazy on baby heads. best was the steepest part, with a bunch of 2 or so foot drops off's in a row. passed 7 people in one fell swoop with a bunch of volunteers yelling "THATS NOT A LINE!!! YEAH!!!!!!" Cramped like crazy after the baby heads, and continued to until the end. Climbed up to 3rd divide without cramping somehow. midway down 3rd divide someone decided it would be cool to let others pass, then try and re-enter the trail directly in front of me. I made a quick turn and tucked the front end, and ended up prob 20 feet down the trail, against a tree. Have some "severely bruised ribs" according to the doctor. face is scraped up. right arm looks like a tiger got a hold of it. knee's are scraped up. right shoulder is having a hard time going above my head. Sat on the ground after i crashed for just over 8 minutes according to the gps. it took me that long to get up. was going 33.9 MPH when i ate it. Fun fact for those wondering, spandex offers little to no protection against rocks in the even of a fall. cruised the rest of the way down. was extremely hard to hold onto the handle bar. The position i had to be in wasn't agreeing with my shoulder. finished with a 2:55? give or take a few seconds. was in 3rd place after the xc.
dh was horrible. wednesday and thursday i was running 49-52 minute times. got a 1 hour flat on this race. legs cramping where i landed on it the previous day, ran/rode up the climb to 3rd. nothing really eventful happened on the way down. holding the bars was difficult with my right side, made it hard to control it over choppy stuff. felt more like i was along for the ride than controlling anything.
all in all it was fun. could have don't better i think if i had actually trained, and had not had the accident during the xc. dunno where i ended up overall. will have to wait for complete results.
Will i do it again next year? At first, i said i wouldn't. After thinking about it, ill be waiting at the computer the day reg opens again. It was def the hardest thing Ive ever done on a bike.
changes for next year will be a full skin suit. It makes you faster. Very Happy
possibly a front derailleur, as a single 36T FUCKING SUCKS when you have to climb from 3,000 ft to 7,000 ft in 8 miles.
Congrats!
...You're gonna need to change that max HR from 185 to 194.