Winter Short Track Series

Well it was another fun day of racing.

I should have been on an endurance training ride because I still think that my riding is relevant, plus he was supposed to be on restrictions. Somehow he talked his Mom into "fixing" this. She lobbied on his behalf and he ended up racing.

Before the race, sizing them up. He is a bit undersized.

The race categories for kids are 14-18 and 13 and under. He turns 10 at the end of the month, so he was pretty close to the bottom of the age group.

There were 23 racers in his age group. We did not know what to expect.

I tried out my new video camera at the race, and I am in the middle of my first edit. Right now it is not very good, and would probably make you sick.

-The short track series is a timed event instead of a distance event. It is who can do the most laps first in the allotted amount of time. His race time was 25 minutes and the course is a 1 mile loop. I figured at about 10 mph he would get like 5 laps. The course is a really fun one with about 1/2 mile of downhill, flowing, banked, bmx like single track to a 1/2 mile fire road/paved climb back to the start-finish.

At the start they took off with no regard and Logan entered the single track in second place.

Video posted below. Logan is on the outside in blue.

I raced down the fire road to see how they shook out in the woods. He came out in second and quickly took first place on the climb. At the start finish he had a 20-30 second gap on 2nd. #168 in the pictures above. When he came out the woods 2nd was right on his wheel, and then Logan would drop him on the climb. I think a combination of lap traffic and Logan riding smart allowed 2nd to catch him almost every lap. On lap 4 #168 decided to make a move and really gunned it going up the climb. I started to think he may have been saving something for the end Logan is now in trouble. But Logan stayed calm, kept him in sight, and as soon as the kids tempo slowed down he dropped the hammer and pulled another 20-30 second gap. This time through the start-finish they announced 2 laps left. Logan raced a good race all the way to the end. He performed his signature disco dance finish across the line for his 1st win of the year.

Results posted below.

2nd place kept it interesting and was only 22 seconds back and 3rd place was over 2 minutes back. They were the only 3 to do 6 laps. He did 6 miles in 30 minutes or 12 mph average.

Boy is dangerous.

All in all, it was well worth it to give up my endurance ride to support the little punk.

Looks like we will be cutting the ski trip short this weekend to do some more racing in Charlotte.