Breast Cancer Awareness Race and Jimmy's Day!

Another great race in Hagerstown, MD. AFC had another great showing minus the several mechanicals by Adam(flatx2), Mike W(flat), Weezal(rear derailer in pieces), and Matt P(chain).

First race of the day was by Pat and Greg in the Cat 4 race!
Pat: 5th place
Greg: 16th

Next race was Jim Klender and Mike West! This was Jim's second race and he was rolling on that mountain bike! Mike also did really well considering he had a flat.

Jim Klender very poised!

After the masters race was the 3/4 B race with Adam, Alex, and Pat(2nd race). Along with them Jimmy started a few seconds after the B race! Adam got a great start but on the first steep hill climb got a really loud flat and was very far from the pit so had to run close to 1 mile:) Alex continued and did well in his first B race with a 4th place finish close to Chris Mayhew. Pat did well considering this was his second race of the day! This was definitely a great day by Jimmy Klose who won the U18 race and later went on to win the U16 race!! WOW

Later was the U16 which featured Jimmy, Tommy(Jimmy's brother), and Alec. Seems like AFC has a lot of brothers! Tommy looked very strong on his mountain bike and finish 4th while Alec youngest competitor out there with his mountain bike which could of weighed as much has him:)

Left to Right Jimmy, Tommy, Alec ready to start!

Special report from Alec in the U16 race at 1:30:

Okay, so there's so many things to talk about. Let's start with the BIG hill. It was very rocky and felt like it was almost vertical. It was about 15 feet tall. I tried to run it, but actually walked it. On the second lap, Alex D. (Thank you Alex) helped me get my bike up it. Darn hill. After that, there was some gravel. And then there was a slanted hill (off-camber) that was very bumpy. I did not like it. Then we went around a bunch of turns and little hills. And then the sand pit. It looked easy but it wasn't actually easy. On the first lap I had to push my bike through it. On the second lap, I made it riding through it. Then we rode in kind of a square on a flat place. And then down a short hill, u-turn, and then back around and back up the hill. I could never ride my bike up the hill. Then there was the finish line, but it wasn't actually the finish line until you did a couple of laps. I did 2 laps like I was supposed to. That made me happy. Oh, wait, I forgot about the barriers. They were before the sand pit and I did fine with them.

Alec running with bike up STEEP hill!

Thank you to all the AFC guys for staying and cheering for me.