Greensfelder race report.

Ouch! 

Man, the conditions were just perfect for the Greensfelder race yesterday.  Too bad my legs and bike weren't perfrect, but that's another story.  DRJ put on a great event.  The course was about 8.5 miles with lots of technical, rocky stuff with a huge amount of climbing.  I heard reports of 1000 feet per lap.  Based on my experience, that's probably not far off. 

I think there were 16 entered in the marthan class.  I lined up with gears and front suspension for the first time in a long time, like maybe a year.  The gun went off and we took off up a short doube track climb and into the singletrack.  I was maybe 10 or so into the trail.  The pace was high and the fast guys were soon far away.  I yo-yoed between riders throughout the first lap.  The first half is all technical singletrack with some rock ledges thrown in for fun.  I was actually difficult getting used to  a suspension fork again.  That thing compresses when you drop off a ledge.  Almost went over the bars a couple of times. The second half of the lap is mostly double track with a bunch of climbing towards the end.  I felt somewhat slow on the first lap but the second lap felt better and I got into a groove until my seatpost slipped and I had to stop and fix it.  My seat had slipped backwards also so I messed with that too.  Felt real good starting the third lap until the end when my seatpost slipped again.  Stopped to fix it again and managed to ham-fist the bolt and strip it - damn, hope it holds for the rest of the race.  It didn't but the seatpost only slipped an inch or so.  The fourth lap, I was cooked.  No power in the legs and my knees were aching from riding with my seat too low.  I creeped across the line.  3 hours, 42 minutes.  9th place in Marathon.  Oh, well.  So where was the rest of the red wheelers?

Meh. Next up:  Dirty Kanza