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Monday, March 19, 2007
Dark Mountain Super D #2!
Drove up to Wilkesboro Sunday with Will and had a great time at the race. I was planning on running both expert and big bike class but due to circumstances, ended up running big bike only. After a few practice runs I was feeling a little tired - but I guess that should be expected for the first hard work of the season.
First run went pretty well. After the first uphill I was feeling better than I thought! Kept going, ended up with a clean run and finished with a 3:29. Good for second place!
I knew I had my work cut out for me though. Andy was running 2 classes and did expert first saving big bike for last. Knowing he had a 3:11 on his small bike and that he was faster on his socom at the previous race spelled trouble. And to add to the pressure, the guy in 3rd at the time was only 2 seconds off my pace!
Second run I felt it a little more and ran a little bit bigger gear for the lower part of the course. I felt like I was a little faster but not sure if that would hold. As it turn out, I ran a 3:25 but that was no where good enough with Andy pulling a huge result at, as I recall, a 3:06 (good for 3rd overall!) and the 3rd place guy also had a better run to bump me to 4th.
No problem though. I had a great time and will be back for the next race in the series! Thanks to Matt and BMCC for all their hard work and giving us a great spring series!
I'll post results or a link when they are available.