well, I stepped it up and raced with the Experts... my first Expert mountain bike race. A major course mistake cost me 9 minutes... my own fault. A course marker for a turn off a road was torn down and I blew right by the turn. went 1 mile down hill before coming to my senses and figuring out that this was not right, road back up hill. Luckily, I was running my Garmin 305 so it was documented and I could get an exact time of what it cost me. I ended up in 10th (my personal unofficial result, less the 9 minutes, put me in 6th or 7th.)
La Tierra Torture is a well run race and a blast to ride. I think I also learned that I am better at the long suffering endurace events than the cross country sprints.
Janine and I have the SF century on the calendar on 5/20, then the iron horse the weekend after that. Right now, I don't have anything scheduled in June. I am going to attempt to talk J9 into going to SLC for the 12 hour race in Mid June...
Lessons learned:
Electrolytes
go harder at the start and DO NOT get caught behind slower traffic.
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