Lake Geneva Cross 9-14-14 Report by Derek Slates

Race Report by Derek Slates.

It was great day for a cross race.  The venue was on the Lake Geneva Youth Camp grounds.  This place is full of cool things to do, and made me wish I was a kid again.  Zip lines, ropes courses, and other types of activities. 

We had a good amount of rain during the week leading up to the race.  The course was mostly dry, some really good off camber tight turns.  Most of them faded away from the curve making your line chose very important unless you wanted to wear course tape.    

The start of the race was in the “down town” area of camp.  With camper housing on the sides, it felt like you were at a tourist theme town.  I started in the last row with all of the fun people.  The course had 3 large rollers meant for mountain bikes, very tough to ride smooth and gain speed on a cross bike.  2 different spots with barriers, ¼ mile straight mud ride to a bridge, bypass drop down on the left into a ravine, long hard pack pea gravel climb, a couple wide open drag strips and a sand pit that was nice and loose. 

I was running behind, was able to sing up with 30 minutes before the race, and get geared up for a quick pre-ride.  I was amazed at how fun the course was on the pre-ride.  The only thing I did not like was the bridge over the ravine.  With the mud line leading in it was hard to carry speed.  I had to unclip mid bridge.  I watched 3 other people attempt it and stack it up.  I decided I would just dismount early and run up.  I did not notice the ride around until the race which I took each lap.  Now I booked it through the rest of the course not wanting to miss my start.  While passing the pits I was able to heckle Jay who was getting a final blessing on his new Boone.  I got to the line just in time to catch my breath. 

Race Report by Derek Slates.

See Race Report by Muse Davis from this race on the previous post.

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