Durand Cat 3/4 race
(report by Jeff Ingham)
The Cat 3/4 race went something like this.
Lap 1: Ride the whole lap as hard and as fast as you can, see the field go from 50 riders to 12 in the blink of an eye, but what the heck we made the selection.
Lap 2: Lap 1 wasn’t hard enough so go even harder, notice you’re already running low on fluids with two more laps to go. See 4 insanely strong riders ride off the front of an already fast moving group.
Lap 3: Hope that we can have an easy lap…..nope, every roller is an attack to be covered. Crack on the last roller, race over.
Lap 4: Ride until the first turn by myself and then DNF, finishing all by myself wasn’t worth it in that wind.
Hardest race I’ve ever done.
Incidentally 4 laps on that course included over 4200ft of climbing. That was one tough race.