Monday, August 8, 2011
Late Report
Imad and I headed out for a pre-ride on Saturday around 3pm with Rob and Trish who had already done 1. Rob showed me some lines I showed him a couple and proceeded to do some sections way too fast having way too much fun, crashing spectacularly numerous times!
We all ended up staying in the same super 8 because le Radison burnt down the night before. But it ended up being pretty good, as they had an awesome water slide which we setioned for about an hour and continental breakfast with fresh wafels in the morning!
On to the race.....Rob had a catastrophic technical, exploding his bearing on his rear Hope Pro II rendering his bike completely unrideable,and being in the Masters category has to carry any parts and tools on him. Too bad he didn't have a new bearing and a hammer in his pockets, then he could have fixed it and finished the race.
Our race was sure to be really fast on a super dry hot course. I went for it right from the gun. I was able to stay with the lead group for the 1st half of the first lap. Really hard efforts. Eventually fell into the chase group where we proceeded to attack each other repeatedly. By the 3rd Lap I was joined by Imad, we dropped all of the chase group and it started to pour. I slipped my right hand off the bar , crashed pretty bad and got passed by 4 guys, got up, and settled back in, eventually passing them all again. I ended up about 40 sec behind Imad going into the last lap. I gave it all I had and finished 34 seconds behind him. He was 7th and I was 9th in the end!!
I can't imagine it going much better than this, considering the extremely strong field of young Quebec guns who were in attendance.
I highly recommend Val Morin (Far Hills Ski resort) for MTB'n---only $5/day and about 2.5hrs from Ottawa!
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