Nick charging hard at the New Bethlehem Peanut Butter Festival. Nick ended up finishing second in his age group despite the wasp nest

Mike at the New Bethlehem Peanut Butter Festival. Mike also finsihed third in his age group, too bad about the wasps.

New Bethlehem Peanut Butter Festival

Here's Alex racing toward the finish at the race earlier today. His fourth place finish overall was the best on our team with Mike finishing seventh and Nick finishing twelfth. Both Mike and Nick had an unfortunate incounter with a nest of wasps. I tried another MTB race today but after only about a mile my chain and derailure hanger cracked putting an early end to my second try at xc racing. Alex also finished first in his age group

First MTB race

I did my first MT bike race today. The plan was for me to lead out Nick to the trail and get him a big enough lead to be first on the trail and then he could destroy the field. It worked and he had a good lead and then his chain broke, twice! Nick ended up finishing 12th. As for me, I'm a terrible Mt biker but I finished and hope to improve, I know I can't get any worse.