| Big Bear Lake 2x12
6/13/2010 | Samantha and I raced in the Women's Sport group at the Big Bear 2X12 Festival. Our goal was to race a sub-two hour lap and to get our four required laps in prior to 5:30 p.m. No rider was able to start a new lap after 5:30 p.m. I rode the first lap, which had a long steep gravel road prologue before hitting the single track. I was exhausted after the prologue but pressed on once I hit the singletrack. About 3/4 of the way into the race I somehow crashed into a tree and thought I broke my thumb! Yikes did my right hand kill. Finished the lap in 1:52 and was even more phyched went Sam came in after her first lap at 1:37. She was smokin'!!!!! Obviously her goal was to beat me and she did in flying colors!!!! The rain and thunder came just after I started my second lap, so the course was wet and slick the rest of the day. Sammy and I proudly took third place in the women's sport field and received cool handmade steins for our efforts.
Pat and Todd Boldgrin raced in the Men's sport group and had super fast laps around 1:12 - 1:15 all four laps. They were in a very competitive field and placed third. Pat's times were impressively faster than last year on this same course.
Tyler competed in the Kid's one lap, one-mile race and pulled off an awesome First Place!!! He had worked all day as our support crew along with Pit crew leader, Nicole. They were the best! Tyler made an awesome water handoff to Samantha, who had forgetten her water before she took off. Last year she forgot her gloves! Oh, yea, did I mention that Nicole was Sexy!! | Linda Miranda |
