With the race done we hung around Saturday to watch some events, mainly the expert race, the pro women's race and the pro men's race. Our friend Scott Feltmate had made a fast progression from a mid pack sport rider to a top level expert rider, in just over 1 season. We got out and cheered him on at the steep up hill, I ran beside him ringing the cowbell and shouting. He pulled in a 3rd place finish in a highly competitive expert field. Congrats to him on some great riding.
Next up was the pro women's race.
Also watch the field complete the small North loop on the opening lap.
After the fast start a few of them began to pull away and stand out. We jumped around a few places on course to get some different views, mostly of downhill sections. At one point, the now retired but formerly a top pro rider, Alison Dunlap randomly showed up at a section I had climbed to. The coolest thing was that she is an absolutely down to earth nice person. She had no problem just talking with some of the other spectators in the area. During our climb back to the start/finish area we caught the beginning of the sprint between Mary McConneloug and Georgia Gould for the win. Over the loudspeaker we heard that Mary took the win by 0.003 second.
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0.003?!? Is the timing system even that accurate?
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