Well Saturday was the third race at the Fontana Winter Series, and what another FUN day it was!
It's great to go out there and see all of our friends, and we are always meeting new ones. We got to meet jfromlv, and shudder and his son, form the STR site.
I didn't race XC, only Super D. But my little girl, she's another story......
I got to ride around to different areas of the course for pictures, and got to watch Lacey go back and forth with another one of the womens sport racers. I recognized Monica, she was the lady that beat Lacey by two minutes at the last race. But I didn't know who this other lady was. Was there three in her group this time? Is she in second? No, wait she's leading! Oh, back to second.
"STAY WITH HER LACEY"!!!
Lacey went down at the sandy turn, just after the rock roller, on the first descent. Man, I missed the crash picture by a millasecond!
just before the crash...
Here she is, still on her first lap, comming down the back side. This was also used for part of the Super D race later.
I was able to get back to the starting climb, just in time to see Lacey taking the lead back...
All of this time Monica was just behind Lacey and this other woman. As we stood and watched them come in, Lacey was just behind, and then, DOWN SHE GOES! Lacey washed out in one of the sandy turns heading towards the finish. before she came in, we saw two other racers go down arouns the same area.
Lacey ended up taking FIRST place in the Sport Womens 34-Under class!
Come to find out, the other woman was in the 35-Over Sport Womens class. Lacey finished with a time of 1 hour and 59 seconds, with Monica comming in just a minute behind her.
And if all that wasn't enough, she went up and raced Super D, just a half hour after finishing. With Super D, they put everyone in the same catagory. Pros, experts, men, girls, all go off at 30 second intervals. Donny fixed it so Lacey could start off second to last, with me starting behind her. By the top of the first climb, we caught the guy that started before us. I passed them both on the fist decsent, and I'm pretty sure that's where Lacey passed him too. Lacey finished just two minutes behind me, and we both pretty much got smoked by the rest of the group. But you know what? We had FUN!!
We want to thank the guy's at The Path http://thepathbikeshop.com/ and Mark and Keith at HOSS Technical Gear http://www.hossmtb.com/ for all their support.
Here's the rest of the pics....
and yes this rock is on the XC course. There is more than climbing to XC racing!
Andy "AKA" Rut
all around fast guy, and loyal Path customer, Eric Beirman
Auk..
Wronski Sr.
and Nathan. He came by so fast, the picture is blurry...
and the smile of someone having lots of FUN!!!!!
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