Re: The other sports activities thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:12 pm
City Creek Bike Sprint.
I don't know how many of you know where this canyon is, it runs North - South next to the Capital, bordering the Aves. This event has been going as long as I can remember, the first time I did it was back in the early 90's. Waking up this morning it was freaking cold & my windshield was frozen over. It's always been like this for this race, cold & wet.
I loaded up my MTB & headed up. The turnout wasn't bad, maybe 50-70 riders. I only counted 6 mt. bikers including me. It's been about 8 or more years since I last did this race & even though I've raced this event a dozen times, I forgot the in's & outs of the canyon it's been so long.
The bell sounded & we took off. I wore tights & my go-to long sleeved, cold weather jersey & it was spot on. I drafted as much as I could & had plenty of riders doing the same to me. About halfway through the 6 mile race it gets steep, really steep. I paced myself & knew that the guy I was following was in the lead in the MTB class. I trailed him until I saw the finish about 100 yards ahead. I dropped a few gears & jumped him. I dropped him no prob but set my sights on a roadie who was drafting me the whole way, passed me about a mile back & he was struggling big time. I gassed it & passed him about 10ft. before the finishline. That felt great coming off the finsh I had last week at the cyclocross event. Take that, roadie scum!
I finished with a time of 32:05 but I know I could shave 2 minutes off that with slicks & giving it a better effort. I didn't feel 100%, tired legs & only halfway motivated for some reason.
There was snow on the ground at the top & it was cold, really cold. I waited for the results to get posted & saw that the organizers screwed up. I ended up winning my mtb age group plus the mtb overall but they had my name in the road bike class(!). They also didn't get the guy who won 50-59 right either. After they announced the winners we talked & I didn't say anything. The guys they gave our medals to looked like they just won the lottery so I didn't want to ruin their day. No big deal.
The ride down the canyon was brutally cold. I couldn't feel my toes until I was halfway home. Anyways, I had a good time & now it's time to get serious & get back on the "Robby Patterson " training program, like I was 2 years ago.
Thanks for reading.
b.
I don't know how many of you know where this canyon is, it runs North - South next to the Capital, bordering the Aves. This event has been going as long as I can remember, the first time I did it was back in the early 90's. Waking up this morning it was freaking cold & my windshield was frozen over. It's always been like this for this race, cold & wet.
I loaded up my MTB & headed up. The turnout wasn't bad, maybe 50-70 riders. I only counted 6 mt. bikers including me. It's been about 8 or more years since I last did this race & even though I've raced this event a dozen times, I forgot the in's & outs of the canyon it's been so long.
The bell sounded & we took off. I wore tights & my go-to long sleeved, cold weather jersey & it was spot on. I drafted as much as I could & had plenty of riders doing the same to me. About halfway through the 6 mile race it gets steep, really steep. I paced myself & knew that the guy I was following was in the lead in the MTB class. I trailed him until I saw the finish about 100 yards ahead. I dropped a few gears & jumped him. I dropped him no prob but set my sights on a roadie who was drafting me the whole way, passed me about a mile back & he was struggling big time. I gassed it & passed him about 10ft. before the finishline. That felt great coming off the finsh I had last week at the cyclocross event. Take that, roadie scum!
I finished with a time of 32:05 but I know I could shave 2 minutes off that with slicks & giving it a better effort. I didn't feel 100%, tired legs & only halfway motivated for some reason.
There was snow on the ground at the top & it was cold, really cold. I waited for the results to get posted & saw that the organizers screwed up. I ended up winning my mtb age group plus the mtb overall but they had my name in the road bike class(!). They also didn't get the guy who won 50-59 right either. After they announced the winners we talked & I didn't say anything. The guys they gave our medals to looked like they just won the lottery so I didn't want to ruin their day. No big deal.
The ride down the canyon was brutally cold. I couldn't feel my toes until I was halfway home. Anyways, I had a good time & now it's time to get serious & get back on the "Robby Patterson " training program, like I was 2 years ago.
Thanks for reading.
b.