Went down to Canon City for FAR's Royal 50 mountain bike race on Saturday. I rode about as hard as I could and feel like I had a good ride, but looking at the standings I finished 35th out of 38, including two women I passed in the last ten miles or so (one of whom I had to go all out on the last climb to hold off). Finished in 6:42, well under the cutoff of eight hours. With any running race I can just show up and there are guaranteed to be a ton of slow people, but that's not the case with a MTB race. Or maybe that is the case, and I'm just one of the slow people.
And the section back to the Canon pubs, including Skyline Drive, which I rode to get in 100k:
After the race we ($100 and some Austin friends of mine) toured some of the finer pubs of Canon. My Brothers Place, Lala's, McClure's. We stayed the night down there, and on Sunday morning I took the dog for a 5K hike along the riverwalk. Such a great town. Looking forward to getting back to Canon more often now that the weather is cooling off a bit.
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About 40 percent of the field were Masters (if that's a term in these types of events). I would t have guessed that.
Meant to say I "wouldn't" have guessed that.
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