The road to Wisconsin couldn’t have been any more indirect, but things came together nicely last week and I’ll have a quick return to Tucson later on – avoiding a monstrous drive. Many sights were to be scene driving from CO to AZ before flying back just in time for the WORS Subaru Cup Mega Event. More on the race follows, so scroll on from here…
Pre-dawn drive through the canyon en route to Moab.
Arch
Goosenecks of the San Juan
Mexican Hat
Monument Valley
Foreign tourists at the Grand Canyon
Pending Monsoon
White out rain – there was even some snow in the ditch
Strange bioshpere (?) in AZ
All of this got me to the WORS weekend at Mt Morris for some racing action. At the start I put myself behind two of WORS fastest, Jesse and B-Matter in hopes for a clear line to the front.
Not too far into things I found it and set out a pretty good rhythm that had me leading Jesse, Brian, T-Brown, and Marko with Peariso dangling off and on. I never hit the pace too hard and more or less played the waiting game while having the advantage of a clean line at the front through the course’s stellar singletrack. The racing started on lap three when Jesse and I exchanged twists of the throttle.
We both attacked each other for the first time at the very same time as we came out of the singletrack and up the right-hander that started the main climb. I went, he countered, and I dug myself back. His gap grew at the very end of lap three (of five laps) in the steep singletrack climb just before the start/finish area. Our accelerations made the gaps and I was trying to cruise in order to hold second position. This worked for a bit, but Marko bridged up and had that little bit extra for the last lap. I was happy to cross the line third after some excellent racing. It’s fun to dice it up that way.
The course was great in many ways, but one of the highlights was that we got to come through the expo area multiple times. Thanks to the encouragement of the spectators I was able to give it that extra punch. A huge thanks to the Kay family for hauling me along for the weekend and to Rusty for the race pics. Another goes to Stan, who’s 355’s allowed me to accelerate fast and get away with running 24 psi in my Maxxis EXCeption tires. And the Powerbar crew continues to keep me fueled. If you haven’t tried Sun Tea Endurance Drink, you’re missing out.
It’s good to be back, -TJ
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