Suicide 6 recon

This past Saturday, I headed down to Harriet Hollister-Spencer park to put in a few laps on this coming Saturdays suicide 6 race course. I hadn’t ridden there since last years race and needed a refresher.

Trails were in great shape and I ripped around the course. It seems the ‘backwards’ course is plenty fast. In fact I spent most of my 3 laps ripping up the fire roads and singletrack in the big ring. Other than a few steep grunt climbs (and a new switchback trail that reroutes a steep climb) it’s just wicked fun to blast it there.

Last year Dirty Bruce baited me with a shiny trophy for the fastest lap. Naturally I wanted it, but mostly cause it was shiny, so I ripped out a 39 minute lap. Then some extra suffering and I averaged about 43:30 for the rest of the laps. Well Saturday I turned 44,42,41 min laps without really pushing myself too hard (also included some stops to give some directions). I didn’t push it on the climbs & conditions were pretty similar. I just ripped and felt great.

I’m looking forward to this weekends event. I feel great and is 10 laps possible??? You never know . It’s the final tune up before I head off to Virginia for the Shenandoah 100!!