Monday, July 20, 2009

Race #8: Chris Allaire Memorial XC Race, Solitude Resort



It was a beautiful sunny morning and my race started at 8:30 again which was very nice. This race course also had a new singletrack going up instead of the paved service road to get to the top. At first, you do go up the pavement for .25 miles then you get on the singletrack for a while then up the Honeycomb canyon which was a very steep granny gearing service road for like 3/4 of a mile then more climbing on a new singletrack called Queen Bass which just opened last summer. At the top, you go on a service road again then there is the turn off for the finish of the climb of the lower loop. My class did 2 lower loops while some other classes did some upper loops way up the top more for even more singletrack. The downhill of the lower loop is great with a lot of rocks and a few jumps. I finished with a time of one hour and nine minutes. Finished 9 minutes behind the first guy and that is where I usually finish. So the result is 7th place. There were no pictures of me so I got of few pictures of other racers so you see what the trails were like.