Jim Hewett's Blog – August 2011 Archive (2)

I've missed this relatively new race so far.  It always come so late in the season and I'm usually done with racing by August. As luck would have it, a large break in the middle of the season put me in a training period and fit enough to do it this year.  This would be my first time on the trails that go around the lake since I raced a singlespeed-only Grasshopper there in 2006 (?).

I knew there would be some pretty fast guys out for this one, as there is money involved (!) and it…

Hello.  It's been awhile, but this is a race blog and I have not been racing since Sea Otter.  Work, family, life - they all got in the way of training and racing my mountain bike.  It happens.

I've been getting some decent hours in for the last 6 weeks or so and I am finally fit enough to show up for a race.  I have always enjoyed the Howarth Park Dirt Crits in Santa Rosa, and I figured a 20-30 minute race like this would be a good chance to see how the fitness is…