Back in Victory Lane!

Ah sweet vindication! Back to one of my favorite races–Spring Thaw in Ashland, Oregon. After a year off winning here I came back ready to rain on the GT Golden Bike Parade and all others for that matter.

This race is totally old school MTB–single lap format: long fireroad climb with a little singletrack finishing with a nice long singletrack decent. Kind of like every “fun” ride I ever do!

After wandering around in the mud last week I just went out with my HR monitor and rode just at LBP or a little above on the climb. It was more than enough and I had dispatched all the competition within a couple miles.

So, I backed it off and cruised around the loop for another stop on top of the podium! Good training and nice winning…

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The only damper on the weekend was missing doubling up with the Silverton Road Race for some extra training.

A win is still a win… Yeah, baby!