Result of first Road event.

I had a blast at this event on Sunday... 43th on 117 cyclist! 89km in 2h35min at 34km/h. what a trill

It was my first road event of the year. At the start it was a cold 12 degrees, more like a fall morning then a summer one. I meat up guys from the forum Velocia at the start. We decide to work as a team, but some of the riders are "machines" so i said to myself try to keep up and you will see. The start was a bit messy because people did not do a single line start, people were taking off in all direction. We were going downhill directly from the start. I soon realized the i had a little problem with my rear cog. I could not go on the last gear, it would go "chain stuck" so i was down on one speed, not to bad. so i followed the group to the front. but i was timid of going in the first field. I should have gone with them. So i let the group go in the first group and decided to stay in the second group of riders. My objective was to stay as close as possible of the front. I did just that with the first 30km. At one point i knew that we were gonna hit some hills, i tried to attack to regroup with the group just in front of us, but sadly my getaway was not a work team to get the group but more of a fallow that guy, so i decided to let go and not take my legs out to soon. So has i regroup with my group i see in front "l'orignal" ( René-Pierre ) from Velocia being sucked back by our group, as we said to ourselves we will join forces. René-Pierre realized that i was a fast climber. After a few hills he told me when we hit the 50km mark and we get a hill try to attack on the climb, as soon as we are on top i'll go in front and we will try to get away from the pack. We did just that. It was a good move. I was the leader in the climbs and he was the bigger rider so he got in front on the descent. we maneged to keep the group at bay thill the end of the event. we even manage to take back 3 other riders the had left the front group. We manage to keep those people beind us to the finish line, René-pierre got to the line just a few meters in front of me, i did not have lots of legs on that hillclimb finish. but i manage to stay in front of the rest of riders. It was so much fun! can't wait for the next race.

To relax after the race i went to my friend Nadia's place just on the side of Orford and we did go for a cool down ride of 40km ... it was very good for my legs. We like to have relax ride around Magog and Orford from time to time. It's sad now people are afraid to go biking with me ... i like to go smooth also! Please! Thanks Nadia for the good meal after the ride, see you soon.

Massif du Sud - Défi GENETIK

In my last Sundays race we had a little downhill race. It was a cool feature. We had a beautiful 2km downhill S road run. There was a starting line at the top of the hill and a gate at the end. They had gave us a code bar style sticker to put on our helmets. I got to do the 82th time of 175 rider. A time of 3min 38 sec. The winner is for sure Raphael Gagné with a time of 2min 58 sec and the best woman was Sarah Lajoie with a time of 3min 32sec.

This was a good part of my race. I had seen the guy in front of me about a km before. As soon as i past the start line i knew the this was a fast downhill. So i gave it all and finished just in his back wheel! I felt my rear tire lose a few time as it was improperly inflated since the "flat" change at my first stop on km ten of the race. But god it was a fun ride!

Cyclosportive Magog, First road event.

This Sunday "Cyclosportive Magog" is gonna be my first Road event of 3 this year. The ultimate one is the Défi Vélo Mag at Parc de la Mauricie in September. And i have the "Sherboucle" also on the calender.

I did my last training last Wednesday at my best training ground Jay Peak. I did a new version of my loop it gave me a 135km with 1750m of ascension. My legs were dead after this, I had done 50km , 550m the night before and my last Sunday race was still in my legs. So i went for a good meal and massage at my therapist this Friday. She had a lot of work on those legs! Went hard at it, but o so good. Hope for a good result and experience of running in the front pack. As i know the ride a bit i know that the last sprint is uphill. We will see!

My first endurance race

This past Sunday was my first endurance race. It was a new thing for me. I had well prepared my self for this, with the help of my friend Dan.gerous I started my preparation in January. Now this was it, the first one! So i got to my brothers place on Saturday for some nice relax moment with him and some friends. We had a good meal, pasta and a little wine. Went to bed early because i had to get up at 5am to go to Massif du Sud.


So after a good wake-up from the radio on the new Silversun Pickups song "Panic Switch", i was energized !
Took a good breakfast in order to fuel up for the event. 6am i hit the road, I had ask for covered weather not rain! well when i got to the Massif du sud i had my weather. the day before they were running the first stage of the big RAID 120km in two days. They had to stop the cyclist at the half mark to much rain! One guy on Sunday said to me, that it was so rainy, that the trails were transformed in rivers. So the start of the first group of riders the ones for the big RAID had to start at 8h30, we had our start at 9h. So that gave me a good 20 min of warm-up before the start. This was good for me, cos i know that my machine takes 30min to get to it's performing shape. So i did the first climb ... following the first group. that also gave me a idea of what was ahead, and i knew the distance before we hit the small trails.



So 8h50 i'm placing my self at the gate for the start. I'm not that nervous i find and that is a good thing. Pow!
We are off... i'm a bit stuck in a group that does not follow the leaders. They are already a bunch of 10 riders going at it. So as we pass the first corner i go at it. lunch a attack to catch them up, i say to myself i should try to run ahead and if i can't follow I'll just find a group behind that is going to my paste. I see that 6 riders are following me in that attack. At one point i say to my self, your on the big ring you should save your legs. As i get my gear down, it goes all the way down ... No trouble! When i try to get it back to the big ring it does not! i'm stuck on two rings now! Shit that will slow me down in the fast part! Ok i'm leading the second group of riders
so i'm where i wanted to be, in the first 15 riders. Next we head in the smaller trails, it's all mud and mud and we go up and up. In total we had to climb 1300m in 53km. So climb we did. after that fist climb we are 4 riders in the second group. Two of witch are getting away in the downhill because they can go on the big ring. i'm followed by a woman Josée Tremblay from Vélo2Max of Saint-Félicien who is riding very fast. In the first rocky road downhill after the climb, i hear "pow" that's it ... i say to my self i got a flat rear tire! Shit ... that's it i got to stop... from now on it's gonna be a race to gain back position! So i stop to change my flat and by that time i'm in the back! Got to go back up as far as i can.
From that point on, i had to do two more stop to try and fix my front ring problem. I get it to work, it had turn on the frame tube... Then it was sprint to catch up for lost time!

So in the end i finished 50th overall on 100 riders and in my class of Master 30-39 i finished 20th on 40 riders. I must have past about 20 riders to get to the end the last one 3km before the end. I'm happy with the fist experience. I could have done a top 10 i think if i had not lost time to the leaders. I felt good after the race. Next one Mont St-Anne on July 18th for a 72km.