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
GNic looks scared and he’s out front because he thinks the dude right behind him is going to kick his ass!