Bear Creek, Season finale

This was the MASS series finale, and the end of the mountain bike season for most of the guys. The fast forward developmental team was out in full force, with almost everyone in attendance.

This year the sport race started right after the expert race at 10:30 in attempt to speed up the results that followed.  Everyone was getting ready and warming up.  This was is the last mountain bike race of the year and everyone wanted to end on a high note.  

My race started off with a killer pace down the fire road.  Then their was a mad rush to be into the single track first, i managed to get to the front and had open trail.  I knew that part of the course very well, due to the old short track races that were held their.  I felt like i was riding good, cleaning everything, and keeping it smooth.  I made an attack at the rocky climb that turned right onto the old rail road tracks.  I was flying down the rail road tracks and feeling good.  I held the lead till the technical climb at the very at very end of the lap.  Cameron passed me and i couldn't respond.  Then Hal caught up with me and we road together till about the same spot on the third lap where he then pulled away.  Todd caught up to me at the top of the climb before you head into the single track.  I managed to keep him close enough that when he had to get off his bike to fix something i made up time and passed him back.  I then road to the finish where i got third in the race and third in the series.

Their was a tight battle going on between Jacob and Kyle going into the race.  Kyle took 2nd in the race with Jacob right on his heels for third.  However Kyle's impressive finish wasn't able to take down Jacob's insane consistency for the series,  Jacob climbed onto the second tier of the podium for the second year in  a row.  Kyle came in third for the series not far off Jacob and also went onto the podium for the second year in a row.

Zach had another sweet finish, battling his way to a top 15 finish in the pro/elite field, as well as in the series.  Forrest doing some class changing in the year could have been on the podium in the sport junior field but decided to bump up to race expert.  Where in only his second race he cranked out a 7th place finish!

Possibly the best part of the day was when the announcer called up the team for our third place overall finish in the team standings.  For a first year team to be collecting those kinds of points is awesome! It just shows the overall consistency the team had, to perform as a whole, incredibly on a regular basis. 

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