There’s not a ton to say about this race… only one woman from Saturday showed back up. I wasn’t feeling a hammerfest against the men, so I just rode somewhat hard for the 60 minute race. I won, but didn’t pay too much attention to the guys (only beat one of them). I didn’t feel too bad about it- the promoter used the average lap time of each category to calculate a handicap for the finale “Hoss of Cross” race in which entrants start slowest to fastest and race 2 laps of the course for a nice set of wheels (and a snuggie!)

I started 45 seconds after the junior racer (Max Gander) and 45 seconds before the Cat 4/SS men. Unfortunately, my race was over quite quickly… at the first log/runup (which I’d been able to ride over slowly during my race), I attempted to dismount & run. This would have been faster, except my chain bounced off and hung up on the chain watcher, pulling it sideways into the front chainring. By the time I’d fixed it, the group of men was at the runup. There was no way I’d be able to hang with a couple of them, so I rolled back down the hill and filled a cup from the keg of Yazoo beer instead…

So, day two was pretty “Meh” as far as racing, but I did get to hang out & talk with Mike Pace- owner of Pace’s Cog Farm where the race took place. I’ll definitely be making a trip or two back to McEwen for some mountain and road riding at some point in the future!