11/10/12 - Sienna Lake

Finally a race with no mechanicals, major crashes, or setbacks even though the conditions were by far the worst this year has brought to the CO CX scene.  Sienna Lake is in Broomfield about 15 minutes from Louisville, the day brought dropping temps, rain, snow, fog you name it.  Race time was early afternoon and the temp was about 32 degrees, snowing, and the course was a complete mess, but hey this is how CX goes.  Here in CO it is usually pretty well fair weather CX much of the season, hey it was 77 degrees on Wednesday.  There were about 25 to start for the CAT 3 race, the first lap was quite dicey with many slippery corner crashes, myself included.  I watched Craig literately run over one guys bike on the ground and keep riding, nice move.  By the third lap I found myself in 2nd place, on the 2nd run up the leader slipped and fell flat on his face and slid all the way down the hill.  I hopped over him and ran right up, the key to this race was toe spikes.  I kept pulling away the last 3 laps, only to be caught by one single speeder.  Over the course of the race my brakes kept getting looser and looser, only to find out by the end that the pads were completely worn from the sand, muck and ice.  On the 2nd to last lap I did run right into the tape as I could not stop in time for the turn, I had to back up and start again.  I ended up finishing right behind the single speed winner and 55 sec up on the CAT 3 group.  It was a great race, tons of fun, cold, muddy, snowy, what a mess, I was glad to take the win on a tough day.  Also with Lucky Pie and Sweet Cow on the podium, Louisville was well supported.  I got out of all my wet muddy clothes as quickly as possible and home to clean up, I was so cold.

Lap 1 08:15   
Lap 2 07:43   
Lap 3 07:40   
Lap 4 07:50   
Lap 5 08:00   
Lap 6 07:53           

Total - 47:24.43