6 Hours of Rosey

Team Islay Barrel Proof showed up early, stayed late, crushed the course and walked away with some first place pint glasses at the Six Hours of Cranky Monkey mountain bike race at Rosaryville.  I admit we did not have much competition for a podium spot in our class (3 person coed) with only one other team but we all posted some impressive lap times and would have still found a spot on the podium if we had been combined with the 3 person male teams.  I walked (or rode) off the course feeling really good about our day and the fact I can still ride a pretty fast lap at my age.  For some reason, lap times were generally slower this year which I attribute to the long, cold winter and impact on training for all of us out there. 

The race draws a lot of familiar faces from the local mountain biking scene and it was great to see so many familiar faces.  My friend Bruce Buckley was working the race for Swim, Bike, Run photography and stopped by the tent to say hello and snapped a close up of our team mascot, she is always happy to make a new friend, especially one with a camera.

 

 

 

Your camera smells

We also invited our celebrity wrench, Jay Robertson, to join us.  I know Jay from his days wrenching at the Bike Lane but now that he has gone solo I have been using him to wrench on our fleet of bikes.  Watching Jay work on bike is like watching an artist, he is so detailed and so good at what he does you know your bike is in excellent hands.  Fortunately Jay's attention to detail paid off as he found  cracks in two of our Niner frames which means we are getting new frames.  Almost as good as getting a new bike.  Hopefully Jay and his wife Kate enjoyed the day with us, I know there were several folks that stopped by our tent to say hello to him.

Now our attention is back on preparing for the Ironman but I am already looking forward to next season when we can do more racing and riding in events like this.

Team Islay post race celebratory pic