Wirth cross race wrap up, part 2

Umm…that was way hard. I am not going to criticize the course because I have all the respect in the world for race promoters. Plus I am a totally positive person and I am all about being positive and shit like that. What I will say is that there is a reason I don’t do mountain bike races. I decided that I would take things a bit easier at the start today and see if I could avoid cracking half way through the race. Mission kinda accomplished. I did not get gassed later into the race due to my start, but I did get totally gassed. Course was generally fast with a number of 180 degree turns that required nearly a full stop to transverse. Downhill from the finish line to a hard right that you could take at speed if you had the right line. A speed section followed that set up to a tricky corner that you could again take fast if you... [read full story]