Just kidding all, it didn’t take us a week to get through the race…here is a couple of updates on our life as the George Family and the race.
The race day was pretty crazy. My loving wife and I got up around 4am and started getting thing around. Brendon and Cameron got up around 6am and off we were.
I wasn’t nervous at all the whole week, then when Sunday hit, well so did the nerves. Brendon seemed to not have a care in the world…he just rolled with things that morning and was very excited about the race. They started off a little late, but that’s ok. There was a huge pack of riders waiting at the staging area. I looked out over the crowd of riders and was amazed of all the ages that was represented there.
We were off about 9am and the ride started…a slight downhill start and then a slow long climb…after getting warmed up we averaged about 14 mph…our max speed for the day was 31.5mph. It seemed as though Brendon liked the faster speeds…even though he was almost asleep before we hit smith road…Smith road is in an industrial park area and the road resembled a rooty section of mountain bike trail. We just didn’t have the suspension as on my xc mountain bike.
I read up on the race and seen on mapmyride.com that there was a 4% grade around the 9 mile marker…well it was an 8% grade around the 10 mile marker…as I said earlier we were humming along about 14mph then when the 8% grade came knocked us down to 2 to 5 mph…tough hill.
All in all we had a great time and my son wants to do another race. We would like to thank all that helped make this race happen for my son & I…We greatly appriciate all that was donated and monies given…We just believe that blessings will come your way because of this…Thanks
Brendon & Chuck
