After attempting to ride the course on the day before in 17 degrees we were very happy when the temperatures made it up into the 20's for the Wednesday races. Brendan Lehman raced in the masters's 30-34 group where he made it to 10th place.
The next race was the master's 65-69 where Paul Sadoff made it to 14th place. The master's fields were not that large but the course was pretty demanding with many corners, a lot of bumpy turf and some headwind stretches. This isn't the epic nationals course with long, steep runups and death defying muddy descents-it is a fairly tame collection of features. # 1 is the "Belgian stairs " which is about 8-10 railroad ties put into the ground on an uphill that would have been fine to ride up but was now a short run to an off camber with an uncomfortable remount. # 2 is a sand pit that was basically frozen and fairly easy to blast through, although there were many people crashing there. There were a few places on the course that were slippery with icy grass where some people were ending up on the ground. Even though it was only the first day of championship races there were many spectators present.
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