Winter Park #1

Saturday was the first race of a six part series of races in and around Winter Park Colorado. Yesterday's race was the Hill climb kickoff, an audacious way to start the racing season. Brae P, Mike V, and myself raced in the singlespeed category representing Black Death. Surenuf, Charlie Hayes was sitting right there on the start line, kinda weird to line up with people like that, very intimidating. But anyways, linstened to the 5...4...3...2...1...GO! and went off.

We actually started off at a decent pace this year, which was a welcome change. Everything was going alright, that is until the second switchback, when the group exploded. Everything just disintegrated into little bits. I had three guys in my sight the entire way up, but could not manage to catch them. It turns out that Brae got second by something like 13 seconds to Charlie Hayes. Very cool to have a black death podium in the first race.

Rode up to where the sun sets yesterday with mom and dad. Not so smart after the race yesterday, but it was a very relaxed pace, and nice weather to boot. Going down to golden tomorrow to do a ride with the team, so maybe a report on that later.