My Sea Otter Experience

[allison]

Keith - Sweet photos, man!! Thanks for getting all those posted up. Awesome!

[Impy]

nice to meet some STR folks esp sauce and chelle - you guys rock! too bad about the pro girl, that's lame.

andy was everywhere during our race and I'm not sure how he did that.

I got to meet maxwell and lacey after the race, they were hanging with andy.

keith, awesome shots! I didn't see half that stuff this weekend.

[allison]

Originally Posted by Impy

nice to meet some STR folks esp sauce and chelle - you guys rock! too bad about the pro girl, that's lame.

andy was everywhere during our race and I'm not sure how he did that.

I got to meet maxwell and lacey after the race, they were hanging with andy.

keith, awesome shots! I didn't see half that stuff this weekend.

How'd you do? Did Al race as well?

[SlowSpokes]

Originally Posted by Keith B

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Awesome job Sarah!! What an accomplishment. What will you do next? I think you'll you be trading your STR jersey for another real soon.

Congrats to Chelle too!

[Impy]

Originally Posted by allison

How'd you do? Did Al race as well?

I placed 5th in the beg/sport ss category and was pretty happy (and surprised). I'm the one behind the guy's clipboard

al and jeff raced on a $200 craigslist special tandem - and did amazingly well.... empty beer has nice write up by jeff...crazy guys.

[allison]

Originally Posted by Impy

I placed 5th in the beg/sport ss category and was pretty happy (and surprised). I'm the one behind the guy's clipboard

al and jeff raced on a $200 craigslist special tandem - and did amazingly well.... empty beer has nice write up by jeff...crazy guys.

Yeah I just read your post on empty beer. Your photo actually has you visible!

I'll have to read that. Is it in the Sea Otter thread for tandem? I'll have to check that out. I'm sure it's good!

[Keith B]

Originally Posted by Impy

I'm the one behind the guy's clipboard

I have a few other shots of the podium - pm me your mail add if you want the shots sent over

[BFloFoxRider.]

anyone know if its open to ride year round??

[sauce]

well, andy. you should have yelled "sauce." that is the only name that gets my attention. j/k. sounds like you had a blast. next year we will all know your camp site in advance.

thanks guys. hard race.

[Schecky]

Congrats to Sauce and Impy (and everyone else!)

[CC]

GREAT JOB Sauce! What's your next race? Are you planning to go to Firestone? If so, I'll cc you there.

[roadkillross]

sauce ur my hero. i ended up gettin 25th out of 140 or more riders. i got bumped down after i raced, thought i got 6th. super fun DH course definetly wish i had more time to practice and flow the course better i.e. log drop and doubles

[maxwell]

We had a pretty fun weekend also.

We arrived at the hotel Friday evening.

Got up not so early on Saturday morning, and headed over to get Lacey checked in. After check in, we walked around a bit, and stopped off at the HOSS tent. They're a great bunch of guy's, and one of Lacey's biggest supporters.


We road around a bit more, trying to get some info on where she would be staging, and what time she would be racing. That's when we ran into Andy, and then just minutes after she finished her race, we met Impy.
Then the clouds opened up!
After deciding to not hang out in the rain, and get Lacey sick, we headed back to the Hotel. We were a little bummed because we had planned on riding some on Saturday.

Race day finally rolled on in, with the sun shining, and a nice cold wind blowing.
As we were riding around, getting Lacey warmed up, we met Neil, aka 1x1 Clyde. His sign on fits him perfect, he's a BIG dude!


Then after heading over to the staging area, we ran into Trung. He's always easy for me to spot, sporting his UC Irvine uniform.


After getting lined up, I knew that this was going to be Lacey's toughest race yet.
Her start off the line wasn't too bad, as she hung in the middle of the pack for a bit.




But with the first part of the course being on pavement, and she doesn't road ride at all, she fell back fairly quick.
I road up the course and planted myself on the finishing single track and waited for my little girl to come by.
As I waited I saw Padre come sceaming past. Then Neil, then Trung, the some of the girls Lacey was racing against, but no Lacey.
After a bit here she came, pedaling her heart out!


"Finish strong, it's all downhill from here!"


After meeting up with her at the finish, I asked her how she felt. With a big smile she told me she was happy to finish, and she felt like she did her best.


After heading to the car so she could change we saw, Chelle and her family, and Greg. They told us how Chelle had been doing, and how Sara had been kicking major bootty.
They asked Lacey how she did, and she said she had finished, and had fun, but we still needed to check the results.
Then the results got posted, and there it was....
sixthed place out of six girls.....last.

But, I couldn't have been more proud of her!
Why?
Because even though she didn't get the great result she may have wanted, she finished with a smile, had fun, and didn't make any excuses at all, for her loss.
When someone would ask how she did, she would say, " I did good, I finished, and I got 6th out of 6."

What more could a Dad ask for?

It was her first big race in the Sport catagory, and I think she learned a lot from it.

There will definitely be more to come!!

[1x1clyde]

It was nice to meet up with Lacey and Maxwell before Sunday's XC race, thanks for the pix!
Keith/Sara, where was your xc race? It looks like it finished on the short track course? and started at the finish of the xc races?
nice job on 2nd!
I suffered in that wind on the finishing fireroad using the SS...maybe I shouldn't have change to a 34x17 that morning??!!

[tkblazer]

hey neil, you're like the Air Jordan of SS'ing with the tongue hanging out.... or were you just suffering

[1x1clyde]

Nam,
it was a little bit of both but I think suffering was the name of the game at the point!
You riding thursday night?

[tkblazer]

Originally Posted by 1x1clyde

Nam,
You riding thursday night?

fo sho

[2wheel_lee]

Originally Posted by maxwell

But, I couldn't have been more proud of her!
Why?
Because even though she didn't get the great result she may have wanted, she finished with a smile, had fun, and didn't make any excuses at all, for her loss.
When someone would ask how she did, she would say, " I did good, I finished, and I got 6th out of 6."

What more could a Dad ask for?

You're a lucky father, and have many reasons to be proud.

[sauce]

hey, great job neil! too bad i didn't get to say hello. jose has told me about ya. that's a HARD gearing. nice.

cathy ... i'm racing 24 hours of temecula with JAX bike shop this weekend, then the 8 hours of Idyllwild (sp?) solo the next weekend. then my first DH race at Fontana the next weekend! when is the firestone thing? i never want to miss a good race!

oh, and great job lacey racing sport level at sea otter!

and colette ... great job! nice to meet you at last. single-speeding rules.

and ross ... that dh course was HARD! you did well. just getting out there to so and racing it was awesome of you.

[allison]

Crash - great write-up! Glad Lacey had a good time. It's a big race, so it's cool that she went out and tried her best AND had a good time!! She's still young; she's got plenty of time to finish 1st ahead of her