Subaru Cup Race Report

Pre-race dinner#2 at T.W. Martin's in downtown Waupaca with the Alterra gang. Yes, even the Iowa Duster was once a trophy on our team. He still claims that us WORS peeps have the best dam race organization in the country and not to forget it!

Plenty of blue sky

Dry dirt


photo courtesy of Edge Photo

Equals a great weekend of racing! 3rd in Age, 16th overall XC

I went out and did my own thing this weekend and I surprised myself. I love this course and remember how much fun it is to ride. The single track downhill sections are my favorite especially the HEE HAW section! Plenty of sections that were wide open to cut loose made it even more fun! For once I was not alone out there and actually had fun going back and forth with April, Amelia and MK, it made for a more interesting and challenging time in the cross country race. I don't remember all the details of four laps and who did what, when and how but going into my final lap I was feeling pretty good and the legs were still there. Not too bad for running mud tires on a dry course:)

Sundays events were a blast starting off with the Super D. The course was basically the cross country single track run in reverse which made it familiar (especially after racing four laps of it) but in a backwards way. The start was a Lehman style and us elite women were split into two groups. Thankfully, the faster girls went in the first group. Don called us up one by one to set up our bikes at the top of the hill. We started off running uphill to our bikes about a hundred yards or so after Don called GOOOOOOOOO. I had a good start and even though I was in the back, us girls were pretty much stacked on top of each other in the single track going down. I was not to sure how the 1.8 muds were going to handle this but I had no choice but to suck it up and go for it. I know not having 100 % confidence in your tires can put a damper on your fun. Pretty interesting race from my perspective, since I never saw some of these women before in a race up until now, given we were doing a downhill race and gravity was my friend. I was pretty much on Lindsay's wheel all the way down until we broke off in the open sections at the end of the single track. I had a blast and thought it was a pretty close race for most of us girls.

The short track race was fun and painful. I think it would of made for a more interesting race if they did not have that fricken hill in it:) This was my first short track race and experience is what I got. Trying to corner fast on those 1.8 muds was tricky and I almost took out the flag section at the bottom of the track near the parking lot. With each lap, the power started to dwindle and I could not wait for Don to ring that dam cow bell. I finally got lapped by the pros and the agony would soon be over. I started to fade really bad on the last two laps and I could see Gina was gaining time on me. We got to the final climb and she pulled out super powers and beat me to the crest of the hill and momentum was in her favor after that. There was no catching her unless I had wings and flew down the hill to the finish.

Great weekend and PROPS to DON EDBERG and CREW for an awesome event! Thanks also to CLIF BAR for the constant re hydration and recovery drinks and energy replacement food that was available non stop to all us racers!