robncircus

Selfless team plug since it's our race but who's in? New course this year. Should be great fun

mkadam68

I won't be racing it (those 180-deg corners were killer on me last year! Sprints every 45-50 secs!). But I didn't know it was a new course. I may come watch if my schedule allows.

Aerodee80

Im in for sure.

swimmer88

I'll be there. I've never done it before but everyone seems to be excited about the new course.

esammuli

I'll be there. The new course should be interesting if nothing else.

Cleave

Hi,

I'll be there trying to keep up with the 45+ Masters. Will probably have a few teammates too.

chefxian

I'm in as well, been looking forward to this race all season. No I'm not with La Grange.

tbrown524

Can't wait to see you breakaway from the pack!!!
You're so fast!
I know you''re going to put a hurtin on the pack.

chefxian

What a di$%!!!!

hairnet

maybe I'll just watch it

Aerodee80

Gosh it was a crazy race..finished 9th.
https://connect.garmin.com/activity/43741158

esammuli

That was hard. Zabriskie is a freaking motor.

chefxian

The course was hard!!

Cleave

Hi,

That race sucked for me and (I assume) for a number of others who lined up for the Master 45+ race. I lasted only 10 minutes out of 55 minutes and too much of that time was in Z4 (after downloading my data). If I'd had a chance to get to know the course before the race I may have been able to hang in but trying to figure out lines through the corners and trying to figure out where I could recover a little was too much for this old guy.

My only solace is that I was far from being alone and I last longer than many who dropped. Misery loves company. I had fleeting thoughts of doing the Cat 3 or Masters 35+ races but I came to my senses before I dropped more entry money.

Really, my worst race of the year and my 3rd DNF.

robncircus

I was dropped like a hot potato in the CAT 4 race. Lasted 30 minutes or so. Race was stupid fast. Felt bad for the Pro, 1, 2 field with Dave Z. and several of the others putting a hurtin on. Awesome race overall though.

spinwax

I am assuming he won? Howd ya do?

Edit. I just was told by my buddy that Bahati won. Correct?

Aerodee80

It was even stupid when the guys at the front decided to do a race pace on a neutral lap at CAT 4. So we made the world record for a neutral lap.

esammuli

Yeah, Bahati won. It felt like DZ was on the front drilling it for laps at a time. The new course was very technical and it had a couple of short uphill punches and a long cross wind rise that made it really hard. I held on until 4 laps to go when someone washed out in front of me and I had to slam on the brakes. I knew I didn't have a shot at getting back on so instead of chasing I just pulled out to watch the finish. It was really high attrition. The front group was maybe 30-40 with ~100 starters.

It was super hard even trying to sit in. the first 20 minutes was 275AP/335NP (145 lbs) and the whole race was 308NP for 75 minutes.

fauxto nick

I think Zabriskie DFL'd. I talked to him after the race, seemed like he had a really good time.

robncircus

+1. That was ridiculous.

mkadam68

But this is gonna happen almost every time there is a neutral/warm-up lap. Especially on big races: everyone wants to start at the front, so they stand a better chance. So they're gonna sprint around the course to get to the line first. At Barry Wolfe, I just sat on the line while everyone else sprinted a lap. (Didn't help as I crashed on 2nd lap. C'est la vie.) For next year: don't do it. Racers can always check out the course beforehand, even if not allowed on it (sidewalks, anyone?).

fauxto nick

I hear what you're saying but it was a ridiculous warm up lap, I was near the front on it and it was dumb.

agoodale

My teammate and I tried that one year at Barrio Logan. We already knew the course so we just sat on the start/finish. After a minute or so Ralph got on the mic and called us out and said the lap was mandatory. We had to gun it to get around the course so we could start breathlessly at the back of the pack.

fauxto nick

That's happened to me a few times. I have to say Brentwood did need a warm up lap, it was technical.

spinwax

Damn! Pretty heavy hitting! Glad to hear you made it out of the muck ok.