Sunday was our mountain bike race at the North Loop, which basically consumed Friday-Sunday. Friday we did trail work and course set up for 4.5 hours. Saturday rained basically all day so it was spent running errands for the race and getting small details taken care off. Then it was Sunday...Race Day!
Once again I was able to race because of our awesome volunteers. I did marathon which started at 10:50 and ended at 2:50. It was the biggest marathon field I've been in! The category seems to keep growing! The start was pretty fast. I went into the single track sitting in 4th. The rider in front of me let me by so I was now 3rd. I was gassed but feeling good. Going into Max's Option my chain stopped moving. I pulled over to find the chain had jumped off the bottom pulley and was wedged between the pulley and cage. I've never had this happed before, weird.
The rest of the lap and part of the next I gave chase and felt like I was gaining some ground until my chain did the same thing. This deflated my efforts some. When it happened the 3rd time I knew it would be all but impossible to catch back up so I set in at a comfortable pace. I was now sitting in 6th place.
I finished with about 43 miles and 8 laps in 4th place. I passed a guy on the last lap that seemed to be having bike problems and another rider must have dropped out. Not a bad day.
Riding 8 hours in the heat on Thursday, 4.5 hours of course work on Friday, and racing Sunday I'm a bit beat!
Today the two older girls head to Paris with my mom. It'll be weird around here without them for 8 days. What a great trip though.
I don't have and ride plans, per normal, just when it works.
Happy Monday.
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