I never seem to hit the bottom of the descent very well. Each lap I tend to butcher it. This was my demise for the Spring Edition. I need/want to redeem myself at the fall edition.
Racing for Penn State back in 1992, we raced on this exact same course. I was a first year racer and was in the C's. On the first lap, we were raging down the hill and a girl was waving the red caution flag like crazy .... warning us to slow down..... after a couple of seconds she dropped the flag and ran ..... and ran faaaaast...... about 20 of us had missed the turn and were headed for the north bound entrance to the palisades....
We quickly slowed down and cut across the grass and chased back into the field.
I later found myself in the winning move of about 12 riders with my fellow PSU teammate Jason Clark. Coming into the finish at Lake Welch (finish use to be there many years ago) ..... we were both taken out by a rider from Cornell.... I don't remember why we crashed.... we just crashed.... Jason and I both lost out on a great result that day.
Since then... I have raced Bear mtn many times.... never a result.... never...
Not even the year (1995) I was in the winning Cat 3 break of 4 from the gun.... we gained 3 minutes and I was dropped on the Tiorroti climb on the last lap.... That day I forgot to eat and feed myself. The race was 70 miles. A good distance for a Cat 3 race. I pedalled squares for the next 15 km... being caught by the field and spit out within the last 3kilometers.
Bear Mtn has my number.
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