Barry Roubaix - Race Report

Yes, it has been several months since this exciting, fun race, but work and life has been a little busy (we all have those challenges!).  In my mind it is better late than not at all - kind a like a wedding gift - give the gift before the first year anniversary and you are fine.  Anyway getting to my race report,  this was so much fun. I rode a tandem with RJ Mullenix and it was a blast.  Not sure if it was RJ that made it so much fun or riding a tandem (probably RJ).  We trained almost every week for this race.  Not only was it was my first time riding a tandem, we trained in the snow.  The first day riding with RJ on the tandem, we rode in 6 inch of snow.  We rode only 12 miles in 2.5 hours! It was the most fun I had ever had playing in the snow!

As race time got closer, I felt like we were ready as a team and me as a rider.  At the starting line we were in the back and we tried to make it up to the front before we started but ended up still too far back when the gun sounded.  I think if we had of gotten at the front of the line when the gun went off we maybe up closer in places.  We did not get passed by any other tandem and we had passed a few tandems, so we were thinking we would be closer to 2nd or 3rd spot.  The course was great! Temperature was prefect!  The whole race was a great time.  However, we finished 6th out of 12th - still middle of the pack. But we did finish and we had fun.  Total time was 2 hours 23mins

[caption id="attachment_905" align="alignnone" width="300"] RJ and me after the race[/caption]