Squiggy Classic 2012

I gotta tell you, after racing with the Cycle Youth team on Sunday, I will never do another 6 hour race SOLO. I had so much fun.  I'm very thankful to Cody and Sam for letting me be part of their team.  In the beginning , I think I was putting a little too much pressure on myself .  I wanted to do well and didn't want to let my teammates down.  So, after Sam and Cody's fast laps, I was off and hoping to still keep us in the top 5 (there were a total of 12 coed teams).

 After my second lap, a decision was made to send Cody out to do one more lap before cutoff.  With his unbelievable fast pace, he not only kept our fourth position, he moved us up one spot for a podium finish.   WAY TO GO... CODY!!!!

Once again, thanks to my teammates and Coach Chris for such a fun race. Thanks to Miss Christie and Mr. Mark for the awesome pictures.  And congratulations to the other Cycle Youth team, you guys did awesome!

My sister even had fun with her new little buddy.

 

SERC #1 Hailes Trails

After 3 months of training, I was curious to know how I would do at the Gainesville race.  One thing about racing in the Base Women category, I never know whom I will be up against. (Could be some super fast college girl or someone my Mom's age racing for fun.)  So I figured I would just race for myself and hopefully the outcome would be good.



When lining up,  the butterflies were going crazy in my stomach.  Dave blew the whistle and 10 of us were off.  I think I was 7th getting to the single track.  I was able to pass 2 women running up a climb. And after that, I caught up to the lead group during a technical rocky section and was able to hang with them for the next 25 minutes or so.  This was a first for me. Last race season, I think the only time I  ever saw the lead group was at the starting line.  So... THANK YOU COACH DREW!!    


Anyway, my Dad made a short video of the race. (No need to show the entire video, it gets a little boring with just me in it during the second lap.) But, I did end up in 4th place and very happy with how I did.  I'm going to keep up the training and looking forward to doing the 6 hour Squiggy with the Cycle Youth boys this weekend.