1st of all happy belated Fathers day to all them Dad's out there!
While most of the Two Wheel express gang decided to pre-ride the 24Hour of summer solstice race course on Sunday, Jamie and I raced the ever so famous Lake to Lake Classic.
Great day of. One Scott Scale 40 check, team gear and food check, one Jamie Wagler w. team "bus" ON TIME. check.
On our way we pick up Danny Souter and with. a non eventful drive we get down to the start line. With a good warm-up we line at the front rows and at 11am sharp off we go. Jamie takes the front lead while myself not so comfortable in a pack take the left side 4 rows down. Good spot plenty of space, crash free. U'd think. Not even 2 minutes into it.SNAP! Come around 2 guys on the ground and 5 more untangling their bikes. Not good, sprint to catch the main pack were in a good position entering the double track. a few "on your left-on your right's" and I'm chasing the front pack.
Hey i can see a Two Wheel Express Jersey, greeeeat see if I can bridge it. Lock out the Reba,full gas into a headwind with at least 15 people behind me easy task. Not so much. Thought some people might take some pulls but it’s a race, I forgot. Enter the ATV trails and that was some fun, trying to take the best line and keeping your speed was a task even four yours truly, but the Scott was up for the rough ride and "we" managed to lose some competition. Lost track of the leaders at this point. Ride your race. Halfway thru' and i came upon some great volunteers cheering and passing out water. Thank you, your support is appreciated.
Some great flowing single track down by St. Catherine’s which I rode mainly alone, eventually catching riders and riding over some epic mud bogs. Yes, one so epic it nearly "consumed" my bike (top tube deep). Last part of the race was spent hammering as hard as i could knowing that if you want a good finish it has to be under the 2hr mark. Jamie made that in 1h51min pulling of a 3rd place sprint that looked a la Mark Cavendish. Yours truly had a not so shabby 29th place overall, in 2hr05min.Happy.Will I be back? Absolutely.
Overall. a well organized race, good post race food, 9 out of 10 for course marking(yupp I almost got lost),congrats to Danny Souter for winning it (again) and thanks to chocolate milk. (nom nom)
It was a grrrreat day.
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