This race was held yesterday on Memorial Day in Draper, UT as part of the Intermountain Cup Series and this is my 5th race this year. I never did this race last year because I had to work that day. I never prerode it either so I was kind of nervous but not too nervous because a lot of people explained to me how it was going to be.
There were a lot of people racing and a whole lot of spectators, I have never seen so many people at a local bike race before. It was great though and the day was beautiful. When I started, I had a really bad start, we were going on mostly singletrack at first of the race, maybe the first mile before getting on the 2.5 mile service road. I was like puttin' along because so many riders in front of me were going not so fast and I wanted to pass so badly but there was no room to pass at all. I think I lost maybe two minutes of my time. If I had a better start and got in front of the pack, I would have been all right but still there was the Sport Women and Clydesdale classes with a few slow riders. But all well, when I got to the major big service road, I passed people like crazy and it was nice but it would have been nice to get a better result and time.
The course was demanding and I loved it! It was in Corner Canyon near Draper and there were houses around all over at the bottom just like Park City and the top of the canyon had an excellent view with a view of the Draper Temple. I liked the singletrack trails and they were everywhere. They were fun and twisty in the oaks and maples. It was all about strength, style, and finesse.
I got 15th out of 24 riders in my class. A lot of people this time. There were 37 in the Sport 40+ class. Just what like I said, "the more, the merrier"!
Kitchen in a house in Spring City
Wood Shop
Mantle
I guess I haven't really talked about my new job opportunity in my blog yet so I will talk about it now. I work at A.W. Carter Furniture Works in Mt. Pleasant and it is right next to my last job at Timberhawk. At this furniture shop, we do cabinets and furniture for people. We just finished a job at Spring City and table and chairs for the owner of NuSkin. My boss does fabulous work, I mean way over profession and I am really looking forward in learning from him. Also a friend of his from Riverton comes down to help. They are both really nice and I am going to like working with them. We will pretty soon make furniture for the El Salvadore LDS Temple, like coffee tables and stuff. I will take pictures of the furniture and post them on my blog when we get some finished. Right now we are doing the laundry room in the same house in Spring City. It takes a while but a lot patience sure pay a lot!
