Prairie City Race #3 & #4

Man I haven’t blogged in a while so I’m going to have to group some events! Prairie City Race #3 & #4 where very similar. Both courses were “big ring” courses, meaning I never shifted out of my faster chainring up front.
Race #3. I lead the first three laps with Billy hanging out behind me. There was a flurry of action in lap four and neither of us where sure if we had been passed. On the final lap Billy hammer up the last long climb and put some distance on me. The race organizations computers had been bugging so I didn’t know till about four days later I got second. It was a fun course with a couple of interesting single track ridges to ride along with no passing possible.

Race #4. This was a cool course with splits that provided faster lanes with more technical routes. In the first lap I got confused and missed a faster split and Billy saw it and took it and I never saw him again. L I rode with one of the Mad Cat riders, cool guy and I feel like an idiot for forgetting his name, for the first two laps. We rode fast and I ended up dropping him. He is getting faster; I will have to worry about him by mid-season if he keeps pushing himself during the races to stay up front. I then rode all by my lonesome till the last lap when I joined a rider from another age group. We pushed each other to the finish. I’m thankful he did too, because halfway through the last lap I could feel a presence behind me.(creepy I know, maybe when you race enough you can pick up such things) My extra sense was correct, in the last hundred yards a rider from my class had snuck up right besides me. I shifted down and hammered to the finish line securing second place. This was a fun race night, there are some epic crash pictures if you go to www.racemtb.com. Brian took most of the good crash shots.

This week I get my road bike back, with that my fitness should come back. I don’t like losing and really want first place. I have to get on a training regimen if that’s going to happen.