Sam Anderson Cheats at Mountain Bike Racing
Note that this is NOT the 24 Hours of Great Glen Race Report. 24HOGG delivered another AMAZING race weekend that reminded me how much I love this event and why it keeps going strong in its 19th year, long after the 24-hour craze of the 90s has faded. I will be back in 2015, and you should be too! ---- update: I made a second post that answers some questions and has some more info. The only individual prizes you can get at a team 24 hour race are the "Fastest Lap" and "Fastest Night Lap" prizes. If you're a serious racer (which most people at this race AREN'T), you pay attention to this stuff. Back when I used to do the race on the Back Bay Team, we'd fight over who got to ride 2nd because it was the "hot lap spot" -- the first rider on the course who didn't have to do the Le Mans start. This was better than going 3rd or 4th on your team because lapped traffic quickly started appearing -- your best bet at taking "fastest
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this is:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/mar07/msr07/index.php?id=/photos/2007/mar07/msr07/fs015
start riding your bike, its like 65 degrees today, the equinox happened, and to quote your blog title....the snow has ended.
touche (ben stiller dodgeball style)
or, if you were low down on the hill, 2 guys attacked on the flat right before the climb (neither of them climbers) and i was sitting in the 3rd group, they got caught somewhere on the climb, and the mvoe of those 2 guys (well i was with them, so 3) was a counter.....i think, again, all blury
regardless, thanks for coming out and for the support. There were a few people on that climb screaming things, and it really helped me suck it up and ride.
my memory of that climb = wow, im hungry, followed by, wow, my legs hurt, and then, hm, i better go now, and then 4 miles had passed and the race was over. with a healthy dose of cowbell, screaming, and my name (once or twice) thrown in between the base of the climb and the finish.