The race took place in Rocky Gap State Park in MD on May, 15. This is a new venue from EX2Adventures for this year. Rocky Gap is beautiful place in MD surrounding lake Habeeb. Camping on the lake shore by the beach was permitted during the race weekend and I took the advantage of it and camped with my family for 2 days. We had very good time..
Race started on Saturday 11 AM and finished in the evening at 8 PM. Racers competed to make as many 8 mile laps as possible in the shortest time before the time cut off. Rocky Gap's mountain bike trail is smooth rolling semi- technical on the lake shore and very technical and difficult while riding on the slope of the mountain. The race consisted of crossing several water features (short section of riding in the water ), rock gardens and tough rocky descents. To avoid a mechanical as much as possible was one of my objectives. I did have a leaking tire and a bad crash but recovered from both with minimal time penalties and rode to a victory in my class and overall 15 out of 160 teams.
Overall great weekend of racing, camping and fun.
Results are here.
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