This years P2A was again on a sunny and warm and dry day. Great conditions for a race that has you hauling yourself across highways, gravel rail trails, farmers access roads, ditch crossings, and ATV trenched trails and cornfields. There was a significant headwind this year that made the need to be in a paceline as you hit the open trails ever so important.
All the off road sections were fairly dry but soft making it tough to push the cross tires across with any great momentum. Three key sections were, as expected deep with mud, enough to cover the frames and jerseys of all riders.
Early into the race, there was a huge pileup as a crash on the railtrail that sent waterbottles and bikes sliding and skidding. Both DH racers (Edgars and Gord) were lucky to avoid any of the
multiple crashes that occured through the day.
The top finisher rolled in after 1hr, 53 minutes 50 sec, ahead of the other 1017 other male 60 km starters. Not quite 7 minutes behind at 2 hrs and 39 secs was Edgars Apse in 27th place, bettering his previous year finish of 52nd. Gord Lemon, who started well behind 350 riders, fought his way to finish in 111th place at 2:13:05. Of the 288 competitors in their age category they represented 15th and 42nd respectively.
Not so bad for the Flyers early in the season.
Link to the results. http://www.parisancaster.com/Results/P2A2008/Par2Anc60K.htm
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