Summerset Shootout Photos

What an event the Summerset Shootout turned out to be. There were more than 80 riders and a great turn out of volunteers. I was on the fence about racing. Having helped build the trails I knew how hard they were. Never having done them at race pace I knew it was gong to hurt. And hurt it did!

I have only raced one other time at the Dirty Du two years ago. In the end I decided to race so I put in for Category 3. Glad I did. My old bones came in forth and was 13 seconds off the third place. Cat 3 only did 1 lap, Cat 2 did 3 laps, and the gods of Cat 1 did 5 (@#$&) laps. I did my lap in 30:52:04. To be honest my fat ass was thinking more like a 40 minute lap before we started. To put it in perspective the top Cat 1 guys were doing 23 minute laps. Ouch!

Noah raced as well and came in about 7th. Not too bad for his first race ever.

I am just beat but feel pretty good after cleaning up. Here are the photos I managed to take with my iPhone. I will get these added to the CITA pool tonight. But now I am off to get a big burrito!