Keelan Christensen
Last weekend I drove over to Ft. Lewis to race in the Washington High School Mountain Bike League State Championship in the varsity category. The course was very twisty with a mixture of doubletrack and part of it was around a baseball field. Even though I have yet to race cyclocross, the course looked to me more like a cyclocross course than a mountain bike course. Many others I talked to said the same thing. However, once the race began, the steep sprint climbs and tight corners made it into a fun race. The races I tend to do better in consist of a long steady climb, and a long descent. This race was the opposite of the races I tend to excel in. As a varsity (expert) racer, I had to do 5 laps, with not much elevation game at all. I ended up placing 3rd in varsity, only 30 seconds away from the 2nd place finisher after about an hour and a half of racing. Still, this was good to get me back into the racing spirit after almost a month of no races. Now, I set my focus on the Chainsmoker in Wenatchee, and then a string of road races on each of the following three weekends.
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