Fairhill 2009
Well after the months of training and dieting and all the anticipation, finally race day has arrived. The Fairhill race is the first XC race on the schedule for the Mid-Atlantic Super Seriess (MASS). Fairhills is located in Maryland with fast slopey hard packed trails with undulating hills. Got up a 6 am threw some waffles in my belly and off to the trails. It was a beautiful 60 degree day with just a slight chill in the air. I am racing this day with my buds Mike. Melissa, Laszlo and an Evomo teamate Scott Lyter. Being the first race of the year it is a short one which was evident at the all out sprint at the start. My goal this year is to podium in one race and show off the Evomo colors. But my goal this race was to finish in the top third. In trying to achieve this goal I wanted to be around 7-8 going into the trail. This was much harder than anticipated as all the other racers believed this was a one mile race. I entered the trail probably closer to 10-11 and settled down and began to race. After about 3 miles I started to pass all the people who shout their load in the opening sprint and were beginning to bonk. I maintened a good average speed for the 7.1 miles that the race and finished in 38:15. As we anxiously wait for our results I enjoy my post race Fluid recovery drink. As the announce the top three and don’t hear my name, so I jump in line to get a cheeseburger. Then over the P.A. I hear “and coming in 5th place Kevin Sine from team Evomo“. So I got to pick out a crappy prize but realize I’m only two spots away from reaching my overall goal this year. At the end of the day I ended up 5th out of 26 finishing in the top third with my buddy Mike just a few bikers behind me. Unfortunatley for Scott, he had some mechanical problems on the trail and being such a short course there wasn’t enough time to make up for it. So all was well and good until Monday. When I went to check my result all the sudden I was in 6th place. So after some investigating someone in our class lined up with racers 15 years younger than him. So given the open trail to race in since he was first to go off his time beat me by 30 seconds and the series accepted it. So now “someone” has got a target on there back.
