When we left the parking lot at Mt. Kato this afternoon, the temp on the car said 101. In a 20 min time period the temp had dropped to 71 as we drove through Shakopee in a big time rain dumping t-storm. St. Cloud it was back up to 83. Back home at Maplelag, 68. Love weather.
The Sport 30+, ss and Clysedales started first today. Thats a lot of riders coming up the hill. I knew the first lap was going to be tough for Jake with all the passsing.
Jake was looking good from the start but he had a off day. The last lap he said he just had fun in the singletrack and rode with some guys, "having fun". So that was good compared to throwing his bike all mad in the woods or something. He was talking to guys about VT so he is pumped about that.
Mt Kato is good drive for sure, but I really like the course. Fast and technical in the sense you can't go too nuts on the turns. I had a better warm up today and kept things in check the first lap making sure not to blow up. My legs felt heavy the first lap but things came around and felt the best I have all year, passing a few riders after the first lap and then riding with Sam Oftedal for laps 3 and 4 which was nice as he was riding smooth as silk and holding on to 6th as Sam almost caught Chris Fisher and Jeff Hall was "just riding". It was hot but I didn't think it was hot as Mon Du Lac. Crazy, 100 or so heat index readings and doesn't seem as hot. Having that huge week of training two weeks ago right after Mon Du Lac really helped. Its kind of tricky training like that smack dab in the race season as you can overdo it and be toast but I scaled back on the hours this past week to be rested as much as possible for this race as I knew it would be fast and would be good "speed" training. The new "quick release" singletrack section was a lot of fun. The second lap when I was alone before Sam bridged up, I was going a bit fast through there and nose wheelied and barely pulled it together before that little jump. I ran about 25 pounds on those new tyres and they worked very nice. I was forcing things a bit on the corners the first two laps and then just let them go and things connected nicely and stayed upright.
Tom Rienhart was shoving ice in my back pocket on some of the laps. Very nice. Thanks much.
Its a long drive for sure but the ride home always goes by super fast. Plus its fun to car watch. This green grocery hauler is the ticket. 95 degree and the windows down. Everyone was sitting in the front. I saw one for sale last summer that had the wood panels. The side seats in the back are perfect for kids.
The Sport 30+, ss and Clysedales started first today. Thats a lot of riders coming up the hill. I knew the first lap was going to be tough for Jake with all the passsing.
Jake was looking good from the start but he had a off day. The last lap he said he just had fun in the singletrack and rode with some guys, "having fun". So that was good compared to throwing his bike all mad in the woods or something. He was talking to guys about VT so he is pumped about that.
Mt Kato is good drive for sure, but I really like the course. Fast and technical in the sense you can't go too nuts on the turns. I had a better warm up today and kept things in check the first lap making sure not to blow up. My legs felt heavy the first lap but things came around and felt the best I have all year, passing a few riders after the first lap and then riding with Sam Oftedal for laps 3 and 4 which was nice as he was riding smooth as silk and holding on to 6th as Sam almost caught Chris Fisher and Jeff Hall was "just riding". It was hot but I didn't think it was hot as Mon Du Lac. Crazy, 100 or so heat index readings and doesn't seem as hot. Having that huge week of training two weeks ago right after Mon Du Lac really helped. Its kind of tricky training like that smack dab in the race season as you can overdo it and be toast but I scaled back on the hours this past week to be rested as much as possible for this race as I knew it would be fast and would be good "speed" training. The new "quick release" singletrack section was a lot of fun. The second lap when I was alone before Sam bridged up, I was going a bit fast through there and nose wheelied and barely pulled it together before that little jump. I ran about 25 pounds on those new tyres and they worked very nice. I was forcing things a bit on the corners the first two laps and then just let them go and things connected nicely and stayed upright.
Tom Rienhart was shoving ice in my back pocket on some of the laps. Very nice. Thanks much.
Its a long drive for sure but the ride home always goes by super fast. Plus its fun to car watch. This green grocery hauler is the ticket. 95 degree and the windows down. Everyone was sitting in the front. I saw one for sale last summer that had the wood panels. The side seats in the back are perfect for kids.
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