depending on your comfort in these conditions , where you can make time or lose time . Nevertheless , it is a unique experience and an interesting perspective to see the condition of the trail and adjacent trees evolve throughout the day … hint , the trees didn ’ t fare so well .
By the time you started to complain about the section it was over , and the course returned to more typical tight single track with some twotrack thrown in for variety as the course makes it way toward the southern end of the property . Here it revisits some of the course from the previous year including the root covered descent into an old mining pit and the climb back out the other side , making sure to avoid the water hole directly off the trail to the left . Not long after , and Sunday ’ s course rejoins that from the day prior in its return to the scoring tent . Surprisingly , while slightly shorter in length than Saturday , Sunday ’ s lap times were quite similar due to the tighter nature of the course .
races but not an outright soaker . Race results were highlighted by an overall win in the vintage race on Saturday by Jamie Wright making his first appearance of the year on a bike borrowed from local legend Richard Colahan . Bad news for Richard is that he can no longer blame his bike for any performance shortcoming . Kelly Ashcraft once again demonstrated the accelerating abilities of the women ’ s classes in the Mid-Atlantic region when she topped the Post Vintage Expert class as well as positioned herself firmly in the top-ten overall each day in a competitive and large field . After being runner-up to juggernaut John Ashcraft in the disc brake race at every event thus far this season , Ethan Waddell finally managed to end John ’ s reign with the overall and AA class win on Sunday . To see the
Both days were blessed with decent turnout despite some wetness in the forecast and competition was topnotch . Weather ended up better than expected with seasonable warm temperatures and overcast skies holding back on the rain except for a portion of the disc brake class race on Saturday , which had to deal with just enough rain to make the rocks a tad slicker than earlier
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