Tumacacori Road Race:
Miguel wrote: Tumacacori didn't go well but it also didn't go that bad considering we raced in in socked in and snowing conditions. Brent and I were doing really good
and hanging in there comfortably, heck Brent was actually looking really
good and riding strong. Then out of nowhere, I got a flat at the beginning of the climb, I
didn't notice it at first, but i felt like I couldn't keep up with the riders and was like something is wrong, so I look down at the front tire and there was the answer. to make matters worse, we had no wheel support whatsoever. So on that note I yelled to Brent that I had a flat, and I saw him pull over the side of the road and he also had flatted 100 meter past me. Talk about coincidence. So there I was on a climb with my team mate also flat. So I decided to keep riding on the flat to the feed zone and someone was gracious to give me a loner. I kept on even though I had lost two minutes. cought two other riders and finished 5th considering. Brent also got a spare from someone and managed 6th... I think Brent or I could have definitely won, based on who we were racing. But what can you do? Actually it still was fun. considering... Alot of people either didn't show or left before the start.

Brent wrote:
Yeh, that was fairly surreal at the start, - dark, cold, snow flurries, white capped hills around us – everyone looking at the next guy and wondering what the hell we were doing down there. But once we got rolling it felt pretty good – actually I think it was lap 3 that I felt my fingers for the first time and the sting from the snow in my eyes had subsided. The decisive moment came on the first hill of lap 4/6, we start to accelerate – maybe make a move…? I hear Miguel yelling about something – I’m in my first race, somewhat clueless state of mind and by the time I realize he’s calling out a flat – I’ve got one too. Both on the front wheel of course. Had I been more dialed in I would have been able to throw him my wheel – but I don’t think he would have gone too far with it! It’s too bad because I’m sure he would have been in position to win. I walked around aimlessly for awhile trying to decide how I was going to get back to the start/finish - eventually someone rolled up and gave me a wheel after I had cooled down. That was the most painful moment for me – trying to jump back on the bike at that point. I was happy to finish and to say I got a top 10 in my first race (never mind there were like 11 guys who started).