Debate at dinner last night took town hall forum... apparently a van parked in front of a sign so made some people miss a turn. Riders went wrong by a variety of distances, yet some managed to still go correct. Some were rude to volunteers in the midst of being in their daily pickle. At the end, no time adjustments made, but strong suggestion to be nice.
Other thing is there's prizing for 30 year olds (not the usual open then a 40 category). I'm not used to seeing this. I did see the category on signup and ignored it. This sport is built on a lot of early to mid thirties guys winning the Tour de France and other top echelons of the sport. It doesn't make sense to me to break that age group out beyond open, but oh well. Turns out I rode a bunch with some of the guys.
We went through some tributes to their mountain bike little league which started with 50 kids, then grew to 100, then 200, etc. and is designed to have them have fun, race a little bit, do trail work as long as a young kid's attention span holds, help each other and be good people. Sounds excellent. Couple of the kids didn't make it past youth, ones whom they thought they were coaching but in the end they learned more from them about a positive and vibrant desire to live life. We have their initials on our jerseys to take them on the trails.
Other interesting thing is you get time penalties if you don't show up for podium. Not sure if they're serious, but idea its respect to race, organizers, your sponsers on your jerseys, your competition, etc. They're prompt, before dinner, and I think that's fair.
The course description included sections which Mike described will make you feel god like, big ringing downhill, throwing thunder bolts like Thor. Let's hope.
I've been working on cycling leg strength for last couple weeks under the premise that if I can't breathe well, I'll end up doing a bunch of 50rpm climbs just to pace out efforts. So my logic was I didn't want those 50rpm to also be in minimal gears. It seemed to work a bit.
We do a bunch of climbs up to 11,000 feet again but not much over. Another 40 mile day, but instead of yesterday's 5,400' of climbing we do about 7,300. More is better right? I felt weak at 11,000+ yesterday - it's doable I just go slow. Tomorrow has the scale adjusted on the profile so instead of 11,000 being near the top of the graph it's like 2/3 up and we get our first foray into the 12,000+ range.
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