Sunday July 7th, I finished 21st out of 22 in Sport Men
Results It was three laps and 19 km's in total. It took me 1hr 54mins. My Average heart rate was 179 and max was 195. The total elevation gain was 2,287 feet. Today I did a small light spin in an easy gear for warm up. The mass start of today's race with all the category's, I was not ready for as I eased into the last place spot, it was from there I moved up a few spots (most in other category's) as I got more comfortable. I climbed up all the climbs today except two short steep ones in one spot of the climb, my highlight of my climbing was, I was even with Olympian Tara W on the big wide dirt hill and I got up ahead of her before the crest and then she passed me just before the top by two seconds according to my parents who took pics at the top. The last lap with about four km's to go it started to rain hard and I was sliding around and lost some time that I had gained on the climbing. I love the 29er on this course, I was clipped in and made it up climbs I have never done before. The temperature was 22 deg C. I want to say a big thanks to my parents for coming out to support me today & Kirk H and
pedal head for putting on the race & all the volunteers for their help.
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Big Climb Lap #2
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Look at that Horse Power, LOL
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Big climb Lap#3 almost beat Olympian Tara Whitten to top
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| Suffer and Happy face, Pic by Paul C |
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| Coming to the line a bit muddy, and happy to finish |
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