Ruff-Muddy-Soft course for day one and my legs could have not been more dead or they seemed to be.....I actually had a good start after a long drag race down to turn one, through the the sweeping turn two before diving into the the tight twisty creek side section. As we descended in the left hander two of us tangled our bar and we were able to separate without either of us going down, but we both lost a spot or two in the process. The course which had been dry and fast last year felt sooooooo slow after all the rain from the past week. My ALAN continued to built with mud making it feel very slow and heavy as the laps added up. Finally with three laps to go I came into the for a bike change to lose 10lbs of mud with a fresh clean bike with a better mud tire on the rear wheel. I should have started the race with the Challenge Limus mud tire. The bike changed helped, but my back as soon done on the ruff, muddy course.
I'm hoping the course will continue to dry over night :p and my legs will come around. The race is finished and I did the best I could today. I will do better tomorrow!
