TNT - Rayburn

Tuesday Night was the first of our 3 stops at Rayburn for the Time-Trial series. I love Rayburn, its got super tight singletrack with some punchy hills and some fun technical challenges. This is the type of course that you need to finesse. As I said before the start of the race its ‘how fast can you ride slow’ because all the tight switchbacks, you have to limit your speed here. I was expecting the results to be pretty close, but I did pretty good and won by almost 2 minutes.

Here are the results:
1. Adam: 5:48 6:03:34 (15:34) 6:15:55 (12:21) 27:55
2. John B: 5:58 6:14:43 (16:43) 6:27:49 (13:06) 29:49
3. Charlie 5:45 6:03:15 (18:05) 6:15:52 (12: 37 ) 30:52
4. Pat 6:32 6:49:45 (17:45) 7:03:15 (14:30) 31:15
5. Rick 6:12 6:29:50 (17:50) 6:43:32 (13:42) 31:32
6. Scott 6:10 6:28:02 (18:02) 6:41:39 (13:37) 31:39
7. Bryan 6:46 7:03: 59 (17:59) 7:17:45 (13:44) 31:45
8. Mike C. 5:20 5:38:02 (18:02) 5:52:04 (14:02) 32:04
9. Russ 5:34 5:52:45 (18:45) 6:07:07 (14:22) 33:07
10.Nate 5:35 5:54:15 (19:15) 6:08:52 (14:37) 33:52
11: Mary 6:47 7:07:05 (20:05) 7:21:43 (14:39) 34:43
12. Mike T. 5:36 5:56:10 (20:10) 6:11:25 (15:15) 35:25
13 Mike L 5:22 5:42:14 (20:14) 5:57:37 (15:23) 35:37
14. Laura 4:51 5:10:16 (19:16) 5:27:56 (17:40) 36:56
15 Chris 5:38 5:59:39 (21:39) 6:15:30 (15:51) 37:30
16. Liana 5:41 6:03:44 (22:44) 6:20:55 (17:11) 39:55
17. Dave S 5:32 5:54:36 (22:36) 6:12:06 (17:30) 40:06
18 Don G 5:33 5:58:44 (25:44) 6:17:07 (18:23) 44:07

EFTA NECS #1 - The Glocester Grind

This was a great course for the first race of the season. Mostly flat, with some buff sections to gain some speed on and some fun berms to rail, and of course there were some really muddy and technical sections thrown in for good measure.

Last year I blew up here, so when I went over the bars and all my GU got buried in the mud in the first half mile I was a little nervous that I was gonna bonk again. This year, I had more early season mountain bike rides so that helped and I felt strong the whole race.

I got a pretty good start, which is key as this race funnels quickly into tight singletrack with little room make any passes in the first mile or so. The group got spread out pretty quickly, but I did catch up to the one of the guys in front of me as he was apparently having chain problems. I didn’t realize it, but him and the leader of our pack DNF’d so I was quickly in the lead.

I held my position and felt like I was keeping a good pace, on my last lap I did get passed by a group of 3 Vet riders but I still finished strong.

Final Results:
1:42.39
1st Place Expert Senior I Men
13th Place in the Expert Class of 35 Men

Last Pisgah TNT

Last night was the final TNT at Pisgah. It was a great night, 60 degrees, dry, and a good turn out. I was able to get a quick warm up in and then went straight to the line. My first lap was pretty good, I cleaned a few sections I missed the other week and found a good line down rock garden. My second lap started real good, I rode the first two rock spines as fast and smooth as I ever have; but shortly after that I got tripped up and it took a little while to get my rhythm back. On top of that I got held up a little as I was passing some other riders. Enough bitchen, it was a nice night and some fun riding so here are the results:

Name 1st lap 2nd lap Total
Adam 19:05 20:22 39:27
John 19:54 20:28 40:22
Rick 20:15 20:26 40:41
Charlie 20:38 21:33 42:11
Bryan 22:08 22:58 45:06
Scott 22:22 23:18 45:40
Laura 23:34 23:52 47:26
Mary 24:25 23:05 47:30
Nate 23:30 24:38 48:08
Russ 24:10 25:41 49:51
Mike T 23:55 28:41 52:36
Mike L 25:51 28:25 53:16
Chris J 26:35 28:10 54:45
Liana 27:41 28:36 56:17
Paul S 33:03 34:12 1:07:15
Pat 22:28 flat DNF

TNT

Last night was the first Tuesday Night Time-trial, well second; but the week before I chickend out because it was pouring.

It was good to get one race under my belt before the first EFTA series race. The time-trail course was pretty short, just a 3 mile loop, twice. John updated it from last year; it was actually a little shorter but we did two laps vs just one. We start mid-way up Pisgah, take a fast flowy down hill that has some good short climbs thrown in. Then from the bottom its a good climb back to the top, then we take a false-flat fire road over to the bone-yard. This section is new, and I never really ride it because it's a mess. After the climbs it's pretty jarring.

I guess I had a slight advantage as its pretty much in my backyard and I ride 95% of the course about once a week. In addition the hills here suite me well; anyway here are the results.

Name Lap 1 Lap 2 Total
Adam 19:41 20:16 39:57
John 20:28 21:26 41:54
Rick 21:37 21:31 43:08
Charlie 22:14 22:51 45:05
Pat 22:21 22:54 45:15
Laura 23:17 24:00 47:17
Scott 22:45 26:45 49:30 Flat on second lap, completed by foot
Mike T 25:28 26:22 51:50
Nate 26:30 28:08 54:38
Mike L 26:47 28:13 55:00
Liana 29:41 30:39 1:00:20 Rode two separate laps
Bryan 22:40 DNF DNF Flat on second


Next week is Pisgah again, then it's on to another course...

Wachusett Ride

On Saturday Kevin, my dad and I rode from my dad's house in Northboro out to Wachusett, up to the top and then back to Northboro for a tough and very hill 55 mile ride. Check out the map my ride below...