Amanda Borden's Blog (4)

Cool was fun this year!  Not easy for me but that can be expected.  Perhaps similar to our buddy Mike, but even more so, I am not prepared for this season.  Time eludes me and my priorities are still not aligned with racing but I'm going to keep working on weaving it in and maybe next year this report will be different.  After taking 2011 off from racing (and most of 2010 - my last race was the Tamarancho Race June '10), I felt better at the end of this race than I felt last time &…

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I suppose I didn't go into this race with the highest confidence after busting my ass to avoid a last place finish in my first two Cat. 1 races. I admit I waited till the deadline to sign up. I did, however, pre-ride most sections of the race course prior to the race day and that really did make a difference for me. Being relatively new to riding and especially to the technical aspect of it, I am really glad I had the switchbacks down before I was racing around on Sunday. That being said I… Continue

I was so excited for this race that I almost didn't show up and then I fell down some concrete stairs! Not being in shape made this race difficult already and on top of it my drivetrain went from working great to barely working about half-way through the race. Not that I would have done a whole lot better but it didn't help. Glad I came though! Great to be out in the elements on a bicycle with a fun group of people. In fact, my favorite part of the race was when a random racer informed me I had… Continue

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