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2024 Peak 2 Peak Expert 40-49

Northern Michigan served up an incredible weekend for this year's Peak 2 Peak mountain bike race at Crystal Mountain. A warm weather pattern came through after a brief cool down allowing for probably the last shorts and short sleeves event of 2024 (we'll see for Iceman in a couple of weeks). The trees were in peak fall color and the dryer than usual fall left the course in pristine shape. Per usual, the beginning of the race started out fast leading out to the first section of single track but without a lot of opportunity to really split the group up through the first lap. If you've never ridden the course, the Crystal Mountain single track and Betsie River Trail is best characterized as flat, twisty, and fast. You don't hit any amount of climbing until midway through the course climbing out of the Betsie River valley. From there, you continue through more flat, twisty single track and two track until you hit the back of the ski area where the day's decisive single track climb starts and opens up to a final ascent on a packed asphalt road to the top. Finally, the lap ends with a fun but technical single track descent where you have to let it all hang out, but keep your wits about you as any small mistake can mean crashing at a high rate of speed. Early on, a friend that I ride with in our Wednesday Night Ride group took to the front and drilled the pace to see what everyone had and see if he could start cracking some riders despite the flat course. Once in the single track there are only a couple of areas of short gravel and two track to make up positions, so I decided to just settle into the draft, and hope that he wouldn't create too much of a gap. The strategy worked, and eventually, by the end of the first lap, the lead group had whittled down from the starting group of 38 riders to about 10. By the time we started the first climb, I think I had moved my way up to about 5th/6th place and when the climb opened up to the asphalt section, I put an effort in to move up to third and move around some age group riders that had started in the waves ahead of us. That move put me in a good position on the descent and forced several riders to have to put in extra effort to catch once they got through that group at the bottom of the descent. Without telling you how the rest of the race went here, I'll leave you to enjoy the rest of the race by watching. A couple of video notes: I finally figured out how to operate the battery extension pack I bought for my front camera (and remembered to turn it on), which is a GoPro 9. I have the full race! The rear camera is a little GoPro Session that I attached to my KOM Cycling seat post mount made for the Garmin Varia (with a nifty KOM Cycling GoPro/Garmin adapter). I initially mounted it up high on the seat post to tuck the camera up under my seat for the least amount of disturbance to my legs while peddling, but it slipped down because the seat post is tapered and the bumping around from the trail wiggled it free leaving it dangling loose for a bit down lower on my seat tube. Fortunately, once I realized it, I was able to very quickly tighten it down as it is tightened with a boa style dial and it was securely in place for the rest of the race. This was one of my favorite races all year so far, and it was great racing with many of my friends. I greatly appreciate my cycling and nutrition coaches (Coach Brian and L2 Health & Wellness, respectively) who had me dialed for the day. I felt strong and the competition was second to none. On to Iceman.