Ride Report Fontana Race #4 2/23/08-2/24/08

Got to sit on the sidelines today and spectate during the DH race (self-preservation in light of next Saturday's VQ event ).

The weather started off with light rain showers, which continued throughout the day. By the end of the race, the sun was out! Hats off to those who stuck it out to brave the elements and work their way down a slip-slidy course. :clap:

I tried to shoot as many people as possible but my battery started to die midway through the race. I may have randomly snapped you if you were going by. PM me with your # plate and I can check.

Anyhow, here are some of the DH pictures that I snapped today...enjoy

First...sights from the shuttle line:

Craig...suited up and ready for action


I heard there's going to be a new event at the races...duathlon :lol:


Justin and RacinJason


Adrian/Foesnasty


Roger/Just_Me and Nancy/Denmother


Fontana...the Happiest Place on Earth?


Slim...what a cool, nice kid!


Dan/Man blong Gaua...no racing today (nursing an injured arm)


Me/sdyeti all warm and dry


Tire of the day...Michelin muds baby!


Bubbs...Blaine, Justin, Brad


Oh yeah! The wall, soup style!


Now for the racing pics...

 

That's way faster than Justin, even, and Rut, and most of the sport guy's fast laps!!

 

two turn later SLim went over the bars and wadded up pretty nicely.
Dude Slim is one crazy Dood
i saw him wad it up in practice yesterday... grabbed a bit too much front brake... literally did a frint flip and flew 5 feet or so and bounced back up, adjusted his knee pad and grbbed his bike and kept going :bang:

 

Adrian/Foesnasty


Bob Burns


Brad


Evelio/Evil


Trail Paparazzi...incognito


The grass really is greener on the other side of the wall

Jeremiah Dylan Dean


Justin...first place by 8 seconds


4th time...Kovarik, pro men's winner on a blue M6


Women's pro winner...Melissa Buhl


Nancy/Denmother...you'd never know she had 22 stitches put in her arm two weeks ago


Orven


Luke


RacinJason airing it out


Roger


Jason Simpson


Jeff/J_Sims...3rd place


Slim...hammering home


Tani

 

Looks like an awesome day of racing! :bang::bang::bang:

That would go against centuries of tradition to wear underwear, dude.

Or...that's what the Scottish told me when I got my kilt. :lol:

 

I accidentally left my camera in "small" photo mode, so basically the pics aren't that great!!

Rut in his new kit



Justin getting ready for XC



Little Tanner FTW!



BFlo



Justin



Me, Steph, and our Xterra chic



Nancy on the podium box in XC!!



Jeff



Rut, after moving up a few spots



Cody Warren



Melissa Buhl



J Simpson



Luke



Bison



Tani



Roger



Nancy



Blue sky?



Green grass



Adrian!!



Justin



Winston



Barry



Paulina



Racin' Jason



Jefe





Jeff up on the box!

 

My fastest lap is 35:30, and I couldn't sustain that for three laps.

 

Absolutely. STR pace line in full effect! I still don't know how that fourth-place dude came back from the dead like that. He looked totally done after the pave climb. I'll chalk it up to nice gamesmanship on his part. I may have to pull the same move on you next time out. Oh, and congrats on your DH finish.

 

BTW, Gary, I love the shot of steph and me before the XC race!! Thanks!

 

im really starting to miss fontana

 

Backtracking a bit...

Here are some pics from Saturday's XC race. Dan/Man blong Gaua was the photographer/bottle boy/pit crew chief extraordinnaire. We all did well and the weather held out nicely. In fact, it was pretty much ideal...tacky track, not hot, and not a lot of sun...but the air was a little warm.

I didn't do a great job hydrating and spent a lot of time fooling with the lockout on my shock (that's why racing a hardtail is such a no-brainer for me)...had I not been doing all those bad things, I would've been closer to Allison than I was. In the end, we all pushed our limits and rode our best

XC start...lots of pros today, including several roadies


Andy, single speed stud


Justing, charging the start with BFloFoxRider (Brandon) in pursuit


Monique "Pua" Sawicki, leading the women's pros (she won )


Andy, lap #2...does he look tired? I didn't think so!


J_Sims


Justin, lap #2


Just starting lap #2...me


Pushing the Yeti up the hill


I thought this gave a great sense of scale


Nice view


Allison powering into lap #2


Allison out on the course


Post-race re-group

 

I was right behind justin on the XC start!! :bang:

 

apparently i'm in a class (beg.) that brings in the new guys each week that are testing the "racing" waters. Unfortunately this means we get guys in our class that are too fast but don't know any better. We had 6 guys in our class Saturday, 3 of which were new, 2 of those were roadies with some beefy legs that flew up the first half of the course, and the 3rd guy apparently has ridden quite a bit in life won our class by a pretty big lead.

I didn't stick around for awards again this week, and took off before the results were up as well so I don't exactly know what place or what time i got but i know it was somewhere faster than slow. So once those are up, someone bump this thread up.

edit: nm, results are up the day after

edit #2: damn, apparently in most of the beginner classes a 40 min lap time is the time to beat

 

holy cow that picture of the wall looks bad!!! must have been a blast today!

Congrats to everyone!

 

Dood resulta are already up.. southridgeusa.com

 

Yeah, I think it came out pretty sharp! :beer:

 

ha, yeah just noticed. thanks

these are the winners from the various beginner classes...

1 Adrian Ko Beg Men 19-26 Y 00:43:14.82

1Terry Watkins Beg Men 27-34 Z 00:40:37.55

1Sean Mccoy Beg Men 35-44 ZA 00:37:27.65 - glad i'm not in this class. The top two guys have consistently put up near or sub 40min times...um, move up?

eh, my times have gotten faster every race so i assume i'll be near those times one day.

 

Here you go, Fred!





BFlo...
Oh snap! You're right...I'll go back and edit











Did I just say "oh snap"?:lol:

 

You forgot to add, "Fresh, rad," and "dope."

 

Haha its ok.. I was wearing some funny looking lycra.
maybe i should have worn my tennis ball colored lycra jersey :-k