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13 May 2008Anaconda Enduro Series #1Another weekend, another race. It’s a bit of a shock to the system after two months off, but it’s certainly keeping me out of trouble. The first round of the Anaconda Enduro series used a course heavy in fireroad, with almost all the climbing contained in the middle 50% of the course. The result of this was pain and lots of it. Climb slowly through singletrack, short rest, left into the headwind on a long rising fireroad, right and more climbing, left into singletrack and you’re still going up. Brief fun singletrack respite before a sweeping right hander and you’re at the base of the ‘Here is a cliff. Would you like to ride up it?’ A-line climb. Get to the top of that with legs on fire and heart beating it’s way out of your chest, your reward is another super fast road descent, with a sharp corner at the bottom cruelly stealing all your speed. Down over the bars in a timetrial position as the road continues flat for a while, then begins to climb… and climb. Into the singletrack, up and up all the way to the rock garden.
All this is especially fun when you realise about halfway through it that your water bottle has ejected itself and you’re not getting a drink. All that aside though I had great fun, there is some great flowy singletrack out there. With a bit of luck they’ll throw blair witch into the next round too, that track is serious enjoyment.
The lack of progress results due to a computer glitch left us a little confused as to our position during the day. At the business end with one lap to go I got around to timing the gaps, and saw Rob Eva head out for Felt Racing 2’s final lap with a 3 minute gap on us. I set about attempting to catch him and pull us into third place, but it turned out to be too big of an ask. My finish time left us 72 seconds adrift. Next time maybe…
Stats: 4th, 61.4km out, 1427m up, 2:38 on. Posted by erin @ 4:24 am - Back to topLeave a Reply |
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