![]() Josiah is a such a nice guy, losing to him is almost fun. Josiah and I have had very close races here in Vegas over the past 3 years and I think I never beat him by more than a minute on this course. (Dude, HOW?!?) Josiah also won his 403th USA National Snow shoe championship title this past winter, AND he wears Avia AND he rides a 29er- so you begin to understand why one needs half a day lead. But on this insanely hilly run course one needs half a day lead on mountain goat Josiah Middaugh who is from Vail, CO and has been training on a trainer exclusively all winter. I had a 1.40 lead off the bike and though that was enough. “I’ll just have to fix that problem with pedaling harder” I though. I turned around and sprinted back up the hill, only to see I’ll join the race just in front of Craig Evan and Josiah Middaugh again. I remember sprinting down the hill, looking back at Branden Rakita (cool website dude!) (in 3rd then) and thinking “today I’m gonna pump you guys”, only to see the 2 lost ones in front stop and look around with that “wheres the trail?” body language… Speaking of half asleep, I somehow managed to follow 2 lapped riders in front of me who had taken a wrong turn and gone off course. This is 29er country for sure and the high speeds made for some fun technical situations I didnt anticipate when pre riding half asleep with jet lag. Once I opened them, things came around nicely, but I had already lost about 1.30 to a charging lead group.įelt quite good on the bike and was smashing it. ![]() I think I forgot to open my hands all the way to the 1st bouy. During pre riding the course seemed easy and boring, but once you’re flying at race pace, things happen a lot quicker and the surface gets really loose and gravelly as the riders churn up the packed desert.
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