In between the Saturday races. It has been good racing so far. The course isn’t set up for such large fields. The master women’s racing yesterday was so mixed up. Categories were mixed 20 seconds in. Today was way, way worse. In the 40-44 race, there were 220 preregistered. I think it was 130+ at the start. A total stand still coming off the pavement. Tom Price from Kansas City had the race of the day so far. He fell on the pavement, had to run a few hundred meters to the pit and rode all the way back to finish 4th, nearly 3rd. He would have had a good, good shot at winning. Peter Weber won the 40-44 race over, guess who, Don Myrah. Bart Bowen was in the top ten. Jeff Winkler, Kansas City finished in the top ten too. Kansans are making a pretty good showing here so far. Okay. Gotta get back to the venue. Here are some photos.

Mayhem at the start.

Don Myra and me after his phenomenal 2nd place finish.

Pete Weber with his chocolate milk after winning his race

Wookie handing out money at the top of the run up.

I’m beat and haven’t even raced. This bike race watching is pretty energy intensive. Way more so than preparing for a race and then racing. I guess maybe I’m just not trained for watching. This watching thing has been great at times, just okay at times, and downright miserable at times. I do enjoy the interaction of all my friends and others. It amazes me all the people that will come up and approach me and talk about everything I’ve been doing recently. It seems like everyone is just as interested in roofing as riding. Pretty weird. Pretty cool really. We’re staying in Bend with a Paul Biskup. I haven know Paul since high school. He is from Kansas City. When he was in high school, used to ride from Kansas City to Lawrence (my one semester at KU), with a couple bottles of wine in his jersey pocket, and stay the weekend with me. He rode with me on the Levi’s Team. I was thinking about it, and Paul is the only common denominator of the most time whenI have been passed out drunk. He does have other talents now that he’s grown up, but he still can drink beer. Today is the last day of Nationals. The course is changing up each day, hour by hour. From being frozen ice in the morning to wet, rocks in the afternoon. The KCCX guys yesterday flatted 8 tires. That could be a issue in the elite race this afternoon. Hope not.

Paul and I resting from the watching effort.

KCCX garage. 30+ something bikes.