Flagstaff Mountain Bike Festival

Sara and I decided late last week that we would do the Flagstaff race. Neither of us consider ourselves race ready but we said "What the Heck" and headed up. I was a little worried about the race due to the fact that I still have my extra weight I brought back on my gut from our summer in IL and that my Vassago is not quite ready so I would be racing my Ferrous which weighs somewhere in the range of the upper 20s lbs.

Sara and I got to Flagstaff and were soon joined by teammates (Darrin A., Tom, Evan and Matt). Matt took a pretty good crash on his roadbike this week so was going to take the weekend off of racing and help us with bottles. Sara and I were pumped cause it was our first race in our new Adrenaline / Vassago kits.

There was no Norba points or series points for this race so they started all Pros, Semis, SSers, and Experts together. It was a pretty big field. They scored all of us together except for SSers.

I felt suprisingly good. I felt great on the climbs and rode away from people but did my standard time losing decents. Man, I have to get better decending! Tom caught on the decent at the end of laps 1 and 2. He had to yell at me to let go of my brakes.

I was pretty happy with my race. I finished up 10th out of the Pros, Semis, and Experts.

Sara had a great race. She ended up getting 2nd out of the Pro / Expert women.

The rest of the ART Team did great as well. Tom and Darrin finished 1st and 2nd respectively out of the SSers and Evan finished a spot or two behind me.

Thanks to Matt for the bottles.

The awards ceremony in Flagstaff was great as well. We had a chance to catch up after our summer away over some post race refreshments.

Here is Tom at the start of the race.