Thursday, July 30, 2009

Full Throttle Finale

Since the Laramie Enduro is Saturday my plan for the final Full Throttle race was to go hard for 30 minutes or so and pull the plug as soon as I started feeling tired. After the start sorted out I hopped on Drews wheel up the service road till it flattened out before the singletrack where I got around him. I tried to drop him and the other guys around me on the service road at the top but Drew was having none of that and he was glued to my wheel when we hit the singletrack descent. Coming into the 2nd lap climb Drew and another guy got around me and it would have taken too much to keep up so I eased off on the climb and took it real easy on the final DH to avoid a crash. There was a huge turnout for the series this year and I was only able to finish in 6th overall and out of the money. Rhonda finished 3rd overall though and collected $200 which pretty much covered both of our entry fee's for the series. Gotta love racing for free. I didn't win the grand prize of a Solitude Season Pass in the number plate drawing at the end but I did snag the consolation prize donated by Cannondale and Revolution. It was a sweet Cannondale duffel bag full of goods worth over $400 total! Year after year this series does not disappoint. It's well run, has the best midweek race series courses in the state and they give almost all of the entry fees (almost 7 grand) back to the racers in prize money.

4 comments:

JZ said...

Man, you are making me regret making the family choice last night. My Sister and Brother are in town with their kids, so I did a quick pipeline ride. Definitely a great series. Can't believe it is over.

Jennie said...

nice job! new luggage for Hawaii. Good luck to both of you this weekend

alison said...

Uh, you guys suck!! You always win all the raffles. With all your raffle bragging this year, you guys might not win anything next year! :)

Drew said...

The real question is who gets to keep the bag? Rhonda was all googly eyed over it last night. I guess this weekend will tell when we see you all in Laramie!