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Team Bikeman -
Race Reports
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Written by Tim White
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
2nd Annual Stan Crane Memorial XC Race
INTERMOUNTAIN CUP - RACE # 5
Draper, Utah
May 28th, 2007
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On Memorial day (May 28th) the 2nd annual Stan Crane Memorial race was held on a new course in Draper Utah. Draper is a suburb of Salt Lake City and while it may be the hot spot for McMansions, the city is integrating trails into the development. This race is the 5th race in the Intermountain Cup series and was held on a new venue that turned out to be one of the longer courses in the series.
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Each lap was about 10 miles long and was reported to have 1,100 feet in elevation gain, but my computer came back with 1,500 feet gained per lap. The Experts completed 3 laps and the Sport categories did 2.
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The start didn’t give much room for the group to shake out, so I gave myself some space in the middle of the pack and waited for the first fire road. I’ve been doing more endurance training and it seems to be paying off since my last lap wasn’t the deathmarch some of my more recent races ended with. This was my first race on a set of Panaracer Speedblaster tires and they are my new favorite hardpack racing tire. They are superlight, have the roundest profile of any tire I have used felt very fast motoring up the hardpack.
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In the Expert 30-39 category, I came in 7th out of 16 finishers with a time of 2:39:52. Aaron Smith had a great race finishing 2nd in the Sport 30-34, with a time of 1:51:10.
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