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Today was the Ft. Ord CCCX race! I raced 13 and under.

I did this race last year and got first place. Although my competition was not significant that year, I still had a great time.

But back to the current CCCX race.  I started behind a lot of adults but…

This was definitely the strongest I have felt over the years that I have raced lemurian.  On all of the climbs I had to sprint up them, which was very difficult to accomplish.  At the start I had trouble clipping into my peddles,but I managed to move up some places on the dirt road.  Half way up the climb I couldn't see anyone behind me.  On the downhill that is where I feel like I really pulled away.

On the second part of the downhill I was having trouble finding fast and efficient…