04/08/2025
Boston bound!
No better way to start April than punching a whole tickets 🎟️ to the 🦄 , and this that’s exactly what I’m celebrating! Getting to race was quite the mission, but it was literally all downhill from there! Didn’t get married and remember it all. Now headed home with hungover quads… ‘twas a great weekend!
✈️ Travel:
Started off with a challenging hitch 👍. Nature provided a deluge of difficulties as I made my way to the airport through the 🌧️ downpour and flooding. Both flights were delayed 🛫 but I finally made it to Vegas around midnight, race morning! Delayed transit busses and I was finally at the race pickup. The shuttle 🚍 to the start line was a party bus, complete with stripper pole. Getting to the start is the hardest part! 😹
☀️Conditions:
My 8th was memorable, with the weather now on our side. It was around freezing 🥶 at the start, but that’s a good thing. Some cross wind, but also gently pushing us along 💨 so racers were amping up their 🎯 goal times.
🏁 Course:
In typical REVEL fashion, this was a blazing fast course with over 5,000 of elevation lost along the way. No major hills, with even the last couple miles a gradual drop. After flying down the mountain for the first 20 something miles, even that felt like running up a cliff!
🪧 Pace Group
The 3️⃣ hour group was quite large. I’d expected a good number with me, but the sheer quantity blew away expectations 🔥. In the end there were 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ between 2:50 and 3:00 🤩!!! Started down the mountain with several dozen in my group, and quite a few launched even in the early miles. The group was confident, and much of the race I was *not* at the front as racers debated taking off ahead. With the strength of the group, and the reality of Boston cutoffs, I quickly decided to target a low 2:59 finish as that’d best position everyone for success. Most finished way ahead, others used the sign to still secure that sub 3️⃣! I finished just a few seconds faster than ideal, but this was definitely a success. The BQ -15 secures my Boston 2026 spot as well.
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