We made it to Ensanda, Mexico!!
Today, October 10th is our 1st day of a 4 day race. Heidi and I are excited to compete in the women's duo team division.
Heidi's boyfriend, Nick is racing too. He'll be racing solo category.
Bob is here but not racing. He'll be our #1 fan and support each day.
Glad Bob will get in some fun riding in these mountains (when he's on the course finding Heidi and I). Thanks, honey!
Here's our Arizona friends also entered in the Baja Epic. We've all done our training... now it's GO time!!!
Stage 4 is a short prologue... only 4 miles. But it's on a twisty-turny, up & down, dirt single track trail kind of course. It's starts up high on this hill overlooking Ensenada and the Pacific Ocean. Beautiful views... perfect temps... happy smiles... so far so good. :-)
Competitors commuting to the prologue... not racing yet.
A steep hill climb just to get to the start line... Ouch!
Riders in the staging tent.
The prologue is a time trial format. So each solo participant and each duo team starts alone to time their course. Teams must stay together (within 2 minutes at all times) or you are penalized. The next 3 days are mass starts with all racers starting together.
Our turn for the prologue!!! To the line... "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....
GO!!!"
A turn here...
A downhill there.
Having fun!
We WON!
We won today's stage anyway... women's duo division!
I believe we had the 2nd fastest women's time overall too (includes women in solo division an on a coed team)
Nick did great too. He placed 3rd in his age group!
Now we'll head back to our Air B&B to clean-up, eat-up and prepare for tomorrow's race.
Tomorrow will longer & steeper... a much tougher day ahead.
Shower Time!
The last picture you look exhausted...you continue to amaze me what you are capable of accomplishing...go girls!
ReplyDeleteHaha... I definitely was dirty!!! I got more exhausted each day. LOL!
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