Round 11 - Pipsico - VCHSS 2022

First race back at VCHSS since 2019 and first ever B class race in a hare-scramble. I am still lacking endurance big time but the speed is coming along when I still have energy. Just need to keep getting more seat time and get in a little better shape. Probably lose some more weight as well. I'll get there in time.

6th place finish in Vet-B. Each lap got significantly slower. Lap 1 was decent and lap 2 I fell off the pace about 2 minutes. I really fell off the pace lap 3-5 anywhere from 5-8 minutes behind the leaders on each of those laps. The course was so beat out and rough and once I lost my energy and started sitting a lot I had no choice but to go extremely slow. The way the course was it was honestly worse on your body going medium to slow pace than it was a fast pace. You either skimmed over top of all the whoops and braking bumps or you felt every single inch of every one of them at slower speeds. The issue is being able to maintain that high speed pace I am just not physically able to do it with my current conditioning and strength.