OMBA Caramba Race Results

The official race results have been posted for the July 12 Midwest Fat Tire Series mountain bike race at Sac River trails in Springfield MO. Here's a link to the results.

Having participated in the race I find many of the times humbling. I finished 3rd in the Sport 30-39 class, but I'm happy to see that excluding the Marathon racers I had the 15th best time overall. 2 of the Marathon Men had better times through 3 laps than I did and they rode 5 laps. Very impressive.

Since I like "what if's"; if I raced in expert open I would have gotten 8th and if I had raced expert 35+ I would have gotten 3rd (out of 3 riders). My goal is to move into the 35+ expert class at some point so that gives me a good idea where I'm at.

I'm also happy that my pace didn't drop off all that much during the course of the race. My first lap time was 39:12, my second lap time was 39:56 and my third lap time was 40:18.

The photographer at the race has started posting up photos on Flickr, here's a link to the set. I think he did a great job and I'd like to post a few of them here but I'll need to get his permission first.

The next race in the series is in 2 weeks on July 26th in Columbia. I'm going to try to make that race.