Short(er) but sweet!

The 12 Hours of Dauset, scratch that ... let me start again:

The 7 Hours of Dauset was this weekend, and man did we have fun!

We arrived Saturday morning to what was the greatest landmass comprised solely of popup tents I had ever seen. Seriously, we must have had like 10 tents strung together to form our mass compound, aka, the OMBA/CGC/MAX pit area. It was great!! It was huge!! It was surprisingly well organized!!! It was filled with lots of exclamation points!!!!

Our race got off to a great start. My teammate Charles was setting down some great lap times, and I was able to keep my ave speed right around 10 miles per hour -- pretty good for a 10 mile loop! The skies threatened rain all day long, and eventually the bottom fell out. It was odd though, I wonder what Charles did to piss off Mother Nature, as it was dry on my second lap, rained on his, trail was muddy but no rain on my third lap, POURED on his next lap. Poor Charles! He got all the rainy laps! I got 3 miles into my fourth lap (this time it was actually raining on me) and the race got canceled. I weighed the "continue and screw up my bike, slip in the mud and break my arm, ruin the trail" option against the "bail out now, I bet the tent is nice and dry" option ... yeah no contest there. I bailed. Some hard-core folks (read: Monte and Don) finished their laps and it seriously upped their standings!!

Overall I had a great time. Our co-ed two-person team was scored against the 2-person male teams and the 2-person female teams. For simplicity's sake, ok, that works. But from a competitive standpoint, it just ain't right to score the ladies against the men. Now, I'm a hardcore feminist, and I don't mean anything derogatory here, but if women were of the same physical abilities as men, the Olympics wouldn't have sex-separate events. ya know? So ... maybe next time we can get the promoters (who are AWESOME folk) to break out the male, co-ed, and female teams separately. So overall we finished 13th, and if it had been just the co-ed two-person teams, we would have finished 2nd.

So what's coming next on Renee's Massive Race Calendar of Doom??? VACATION!! Yep, me and Jake are taking a few days off to bum around Charleston, SC. Anyone been there?? We're going bikeless and running-shoe less (as opposed to shoe-less running, which is a whole different sport altogether). After that I'll start gearing up for my next tri at High Falls!

Oh ... and as a teaser ... coming this fall/winter ... CYCLOCROSS!!