Race Day Ft. William
Saturday
6.5
Today was race day. The weather has been misty but not quite raining. It’s been sunny skies almost the entire time I’ve been here. Certainly helps when lugging camera gear around. So Ken handled the start/finish and I headed out on the course. Ran my @ss off, took a wrong road to the other side of the mountain, missed 2 laps of the womens race but made it back to get the last one. That really sucked. I ran down the road for 20 minutes - figured it was a bad sign to be almost back to town (the race is about 10k North) and turned back, running faster that I had been. I’m no runner.
Now we’re packing up and getting ready for dinner. We got sooo much great footy today. JHK was the fastest American male, followed by Bishop who had a great race, then Adam, Todd, Kabush and Mike who also had a great race. The American women were led by the most positive person I’ve met - Mary, then Sue who had her game face on, then Allison and Shonny (smiley). The course was sooo amazing. Core mountain biking with plenty of super-sketchy downhills, crazy singletrack and plenty of tough climbs. Add to that the sick North-Shore-Style bridge sections and it was an insane day of racing. I sooo wish I could ride it. Alas, it’s time for dinner. Head to Glasgow tomorrow, then home. But not before taking a seal-watching tour! Oh yea, I’m all over that.
j
