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I have been looking hard for the silver lining around the big black cloud that was my performance on Saturday at Greenbush. The objective truth is that I finished just one lap, abandoning the race at 1 hour, 15 minutes. The competitive racers completed that same lap in well under an hour. I guess the upside is that 1:15
was an improvement over the 1:20 that I had posted in practice on Friday. And I didn’t crash: body (mine) and bike (not mine) came through without damage. I had the fitness to do better but I didn’t have the skills. Riders with vastly more experience told me that Greenbush is among the more technical of the courses in WEMS and WORS, and that I should expect to fare better at a different race. I do want to try another one … maybe Wausau on June 12. That’s the
Big Ring Classic, a much less technically-demanding race, especially for Citizen-class riders. In the meantime, I still need to work on those bike-handling skills and I have to sharpen my fitness. It’s not horrible—not by my standards, anyway—but it could be better.
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