With all the rain around here it stimulated a little facial hair growth. It’s sticking around for a little bit, just how long has yet to be determined.
I’ve decided to still keep riding outdoors no matter what the weather conditions are. Which mostly has consisted of rain, thunderstorms, and general gloom. With that comes in the Gangster Langster as it’s still outfitted with fenders and a recently added much needed freewheel.
Get you fenders runnin………..
With a bright Sunny morning on hand JayTeeh and I decided to roll out to Crystal Meth Ridge to burn around the Wed. Night Race lap for a little bit.
Here we are after the first lap which is roughly 6.3 miles
Here we are on the second lap going up Craters, just breaking the summit
And here we are on the 3rd lap after just handing it to O’Mally’s and his stinking Woods
We finished the day with just under 2 hours of looping around the flowie trails. Steady Eddie was the name of the game. Lap 1 saw a time of 37:53, lap 2 took 38:40, and lap 3 took 38:34. 3,351 feet of Meth was climbed. Good enuff stuff that I even decided to get married to a tree while I was there. the tree decided to keep the pants on in this relationship. If you have time you should get out there the trails are in tip top shape.
Yup, It’s GNic. Keeping it Mehtul as he led out the SS class in Wausau today. DOIN WORK!!!!!
My day consisted of trying to manage the heat before my 1:30 start time. It was a balmy, dusty sun soaked 90. Wausau runs their race a little different as lap times and distances are significantly longer and as such they drop the lap count for each class. Comp class launched with 3 laps on the menu. There was plenty of sustained climbing and in true 9Mile Forrest fashion 90% of the single track had you climbing and negotiating rock gardens. The pace was furious and unforgiving. Lap 1 saw a Comp class mishap. As we dumped out of single track onto some open double track the course was supposed to make a hard left hand onto the open stuff. Turns out that someone knocked the tape off of the opposing single track lane which caused some of the group to keep pushing on and some of us, myself included had to pull on the reigns and turn our bikes around to back on track. It was not dollar sign aw$ome by any means. By lap 3 I felt like I was getting my chops. I was eating gel, vitamins, and bars on the bike as I knew that it’d be a 2 hour race. I started making some jumps after working with a couple of guys and I was feeling really good until there was about 3 miles to go til the finish.
The efforts started to cost me and the wheel suckers that we shucked out prior decided that they wanted to start doing something. By then I couldn’t react and was just looking for a clean finish. Good times for last year were at 40 minute laps for a total of 2 hours. I came in today at 1:55 something and it looked like it was good for 11th in age and 42 overall. Fast group. The course felt brutal and there was plenty of bouncing around.
Wausau, too tuff for Sock Guy socks. These were new before today
The black jerseys were called out and ask to make the front for Wednesday Night Racing. The Metro Peeps put on another good round. I dropped the gearing down a little and was able to carry a little better power through all of the course but NOW I felt like I was spinning out on the flats. Laps are roughly 6 miles with 880 feet of climbing total, which is mostly going up the HD trail switchies and the Craters of the Moon. On order was 2 laps and I managed to keep the heartrate up and race without getting snatched up from behind. I knocked of a whole whohping 7 seconds off of last weeks time. I’m thinking now of maybe a 34 up front? Results are HERE
Afterwards Jay took care of the masses and cooked up 10 pounds of dogs, cheesie wieners, and anything else that was lying around.
YEAH DAWG!!!!!!!!!
