We started out on Friday night to race the F1 in southern New Mexico. This is a great draft legal race, probably one of the most fun events in the entire state. You start off with a 400 yard swim, get out, run across the beach and do another 400 yard swim. Enter T1, get on your bike and head out for an 8 mile – draft legal – bike. If you are lucky enough you can get a group of folks that want to work hard and take turns pulling. Since there were a ton of outlaws at the race there wasn’t a problem hooking up with people. Then pulling into t2 you get to head out to the 4k flat run. Then just for good measure you get to do the bike and run one more time! That’s T3 and T4 for those that are a little transition challenged! The surprising thing about this race is the second bike always seems to be a bit faster than the first bike and the run is only a few seconds slower. This a great race and I would encourage everyone to give the format a try.
It seems I picked up some hardware at the race, first in the age group, third in the overall series (which still shocks me) and I received a city cup trophy. Three pieces of hardware from one race. That’s pretty cool. It must have been my lucky socks. Get it, Roswell, aliens… (you might have to blow up the picture a bit)
After the race and eating lunch with a bunch of Outlaws we headed up to Chama, where SWTriGal and her hubby H have cabin – In Northern New Mexico right next to the Colorado border. The next day we headed out to Race the Train into Colorado. Wow, it was a tough ride. We started out at an altitude of about 7500 feet and climbed the next 16ish miles to over 10,000 feet. This took a little over an hour (ride time) with a rest break and a Facebook update at the “Leaving New Mexico” sign. Oh it took about 23 minutes to come back down, yeah it was worth the climb J
Major thanks to Debi and Hartley for hosting us at their “cabin” for the weekend, Thanks!!!
A few Pic’s from the trip:
IronOutlaw showing his form at foosball – yeah he just scored a point – against DPR’s twins, BTW he lost the game!
At the “Leaving New Mexico Sign”
At the halfway point looking down the first climb
What can I say? Every once in a while you just have a great weekend doing what you really like to do; having fun and hanging out with great people. This weekend was one of those weekends.
in!!
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6 comments:
Hey...you should share one of those trophies with Conner...without him being a good sport you couldn't have won any!
Woo-hoo! Hardware, and 2 winning categories no less! Nice going :-)
This is the first time I've heard of a "double swim/bike/run race. Sounds like great fun though. Physically and mentally, switching gears all the time, oof. And great pics too, you all look like you are having a blast just being together.
I didn't realize you went home with 3 pieces of hardware--that's quite a haul.
Train race/ride sounds fun, but I know what you mean about "tired butt, tired legs" because I was sure feeling it the next day.
BTW--was the ride as steep as going to the Crest?
I dont' think the ride is as steep as the crest ride, it was about 2k climbing over 15 miles. So not too bad, it just went on and on and on
- Mark
Congrats on the hardwire yo speedy guy you. That's even with a huge portion of
time with no running because of a recent foot surgery too!!!
Congrats on the hardwire yo speedy guy you. That's even with a huge portion of
time with no running because of a recent foot surgery too!!!
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