Another Sunday, another race

Today's race was at Seatac again. My support crew (aka Eric) is in China so I had to fend for myself. He takes care of the logistics- all I have to do is show up, warm up and race. Needless to say time management was an issue this morning!

The start was fine and I was sitting nicely in the top 5. The girl directly in front of me was really slow on the singletrack though and soon the top 3 pulled away. Ugh!! Then the shifting problem started (insert ominous music here). I just had new shifter cables installed last weekend and apparently it was time for them to be tightened up. It's weird because I didn't notice anything funny on today's warmup. Anyway, all I heard for 53 minutes was "click-click, click-click" as my chain bobbled between cogs. I only had one real working gear and it was sucky one at that. I was so frustrated that I considered DNF'ing. But I didn't, and on my last lap I put the hammer down and finished 6th out of 21.

Some photos courtesy of Jerry:






After my race I went for a short run at Tiger Mtn. The weather today was just gorgeous!