From frgkng@u.washington.edu Wed Aug 21 14:47:44 1996 Received: from homer09.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.06/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA44766; Wed, 21 Aug 96 14:47:43 -0700 Received: from localhost by homer09.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.08/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA99644; Wed, 21 Aug 96 14:47:42 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:47:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Geoff Staneff Reply-To: Geoff Staneff Cc: uwracing@u.washington.edu Subject: Schweitzer MTB race In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi all, This last weekend three Huskies made the trek to Schweitzer Idaho in search of MTB glory. The weather on race day was a comfortable 73 degrees and the trail was very dry. The course wound its way up and down ski slopes and along fire roads. Each lap consisted of 700 feet of elevation gain and 5.1 miles of dusty, rocky trail. Jesiah Bell, Dan Robinson and I signed up for the beginner race, two laps of dusty fun. There were 21 people in our age group, 19 finished. The race was incredibly dusty, you often couldn't see the trial in front of you. The dust made breathing difficult. Both Jesiah and Dan flatted on the final lap. Dan was close enough to the finish that he kept riding and was barely outsprinted for 7th place. Jesiah had to stop to fix his flat which took a chunk of time. I've recently been diagnosed with training induced asthma and the dust wiped me out of the race. Dan finished 8th, Jesiah finished 17th, and I finished 16th. After the race Dan won a set of machine-tech brakes. We stuck around to win random prizes like Dan, but it wasn't to be. After everyone had gone home Jesiah went to ask if there were any prizes left over, since we had waited four+ hours the promoters set us up with some free stuff. That's about it. Thanks to Dan's family for putting up with us for the weekend. -Geoff Staneff .