Busy Weekend of Racing

Saturday November 15th I ran Bills Bad Ass 50K for the 3rd time.  This year we ran the 5 mile loop anti-clockwise 6 times then up Oak hill for a piece of candy.  Between laps runners are heckled by Wild Bill and Chef Bill with a bull horn. There were 104 starters with 74 finishers making 30 candy-asses.  My time of 6:20 was good enough for 19th place.

Photo Steve Pierce

Since the race is 6 loops fueling for the race would be easy.  I made up 1 bottle with Hammer Nutrition HEED and 5 bottles with Perpetuem one bottle for each lap. I also had some of the newest flavor Hammer GEL Nocciola.

This years candy from the top of oak hill.

Bad Ass finish awards!

I was not done racing for the weekend yet.  Sunday morning I did my first cyclocross race in 15 years.  I raced the NEOCX series finally at the fields in Broadview Hts. I forgot how much fun cyclocross racing is.  After winning the inaugural CDCX series this year I wanted to more cross racing.

My legs were a little dead from running for 6 hours the previous day and the temperature in the 20's I knew it would be an interesting day.

Photo Paul Hamad

I raced in the Single Speed category at 9:00 for 45 minutes and finished 6th.

Photo Paul Hamad

I had 8 minutes between races, just enough time for a Hammer GEL. I raced my single speed in  the Cat5 race and finished 21st. 

 

Photo Aaron Tsur

Photo Aaron Tsur

Photo Aaron Tsur 

Photo Aaron Tsur

Photo Aaron Tsur

Photo Aaron Tsur

Photo Aaron Tsur