Our third race of the season was the muddiest thing I have ever been in. If you read my post from our first race of the season you my recall that I proclaimed it my muddiest ever. Well this race was in a whole different league. I would guess that I was off the bike pushing for about half of the race. One of the best things I did before the race was to put long toe spikes on my shoes. If I had not been on a single speed it would have been even more pushing. At one point, I was passing another racer while pushing my bike and he said " do you know your back wheel isn't turning?" I didn't. Yea, it was that bad.
The good news is I like racing in the mud and things went very well for us. Out of the the 100 racers that lined up for the start, Zach finished 20th overall and I finished a couple of places back at 23th. We both took 1st place in our respective age brackets.
My first time on the top spot of the podium this season, thanks to the mud.
Dana took these great pictures of us during the race. Very cool!
You can checkout her work here Dana Schoppe Photography
