A first time and not widely publicized 50 mile mountain bike race rolled at Murphy Hanrehan last Saturday morning. I took it as another opportunity to try endurance racing...and it was nearly 100% singletrack, so plenty of fun was to be had. The plan next year is to try to expand this race to 150-200 entries.
My form is certainly much better than when I did the Sandwich 50 this spring, and I finished the race at a good pace with plenty left in the tank (the course is easy peasy compared to Afton!). The only bummer was that my front chainring appears to be shot, as the new chain meshed so pourly that I could not stand up with any power the entire race. Other than that, the top fuel was the perfect bike for the day keeping me fresh, and the super light EC90 wheels made all the seated accelerations tolerable.
Peace.
4 comments:
I would imagine with more publicity this race will attract many more racers. I was very surprised when I showed up with some friends to ride and found a race going on! I would imagine it was a perfect day to knock off a fast 50.
Didn't matter if you could stand - When you lapped me mid race you appeared to be putting down plenty of "power" .
Race should make you ride the skinnys and tech. Do that on the clock.
Didn't matter if you could stand - When you lapped me mid race you appeared to be putting down plenty of "power" .
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