Place: 23rd out of 74
Not much to report on this one. I didn’t feel like racing right up until the whistle, but I was here to work for my teammate, Rick. Good pace throughout with little slowing down. About 26 mph average.
I stayed near the front to mark any attacks and did some hard work to try an reel back in the the eventual solo winner, but I wasn’t getting much help from the field, so I settled back into the top 10 or so.
Come the last lap, I chose the inside line going into turn 4. Bad choice. We bunched up and came to a slow on the turn. I lost momentum and could not muster the power to gain back spots on the backside. I went inside to try and move Rick up, but it wasn’t happening. My high end isn’t there anymore. My heart rate was at 184 bmp and it felt like 190+.
I came out of the last turn about 25th wheel, and that’s how it ended.
On a side note, I ended up 11th in the Cal Cup competition for E3, and would have been top 6 and in the money if I hadn’t taken that wrong turn back at the Warnerville TT. Oh well, next year.
I’m going to do the Folsom TT and that’s probably it for my 2011 season.
