Many of you know I'm the volunteer team mechanic for El Cerrito High School Mountain Bike Racing Team. I have a son at ECHS, but he's a swimmer. I volunteered for the team almost entirely for me. So far, it's one of the better things I've done for myself. We race in the Norcal High School Cycling League, in the Southern Division. We are one of six D1 teams, and by far the smallest. D1 is dominated by Salinas High School, who regularly field ~40 riders, while we field ~15.
Last weekend was our second race of the season and our team's best performance ever. The race course was adjacent to Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterrey, CA. Our EC Gauchos won three races (JV Boys, JV Girls, and Soph Boys) and we got two second place medals and a fourth. We placed second in the team competition behind Salinas, but beat both of our East Bay Rivals Berkeley and Albany. We also hold a strong second place in the season-long team overall competition. It's a big challenge for our small team because you use your top 8 finishers to make your team score. When you only field 15 riders, going 8 deep is tough. My weekend had several highlights. I solo-camped out at Laguna Seca Friday night, and the evening was so warm and dry that I didn't even have to use my rainfly. I enjoyed a very pleasant coffee outside on Saturday morning. Being on site gave me plenty of time to do a lap on the very challenging race course. Grant would possibly approve that I underbiked with no shocks, but would undoubtedly disapprove at how much crabon I was running. Besides personal stuff a couple of our kids dug incredibly deep and had best ever results. Being around their energy has been a sort of fountain of youth experience for me. Sadly, during the offseason, our team trailer was stolen. So we've been renting a U-Haul for each of these race weekends. We have an opportunity to buy a used trailer now, but are quite short on funds. If you feel like helping out a terrific group of kids with ANY amount, please check out our GoFundMe below. Thanks Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA https://www.gofundme.com/help-echs-mtb-team-replace-trailer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
