“S**T!…I should have gone to Napa for the weekend!” There are days when the racing Gods just don’t want you to win. I should have taken the hint when they blew my race number into Lake Shasta before I even picked up my package and the race organizers had to replace it. The Lemurian is [...]
April 17, 2011 – Sota-Pop, SnowJunky, DaKing, and Rox represented Quadzilla Racing in the Cross-Country event on Sunday at the Sea Otter Classic. The highlight of the day was posted by Sota-Pop, who continued his excellent season and battled for 4th in Cat 2 25-29 with a strong ride, just missing the podium by 3 [...]
Needless to say the Sea Otter Classic is one of the most competitive mountain bike events you can find in the Northern California area. It’s the crowd of out of town studs, roadies wanting to be mountain bikers and local hammers mixed with an un-technical course with long climbs, fast fire roads, and little single [...]
April 15, 2011 – JQ placed 5th in Cat 1 30-34 at the Sea Otter Classic on Friday with a strong ride and a time of 2:58:00 – it was the 13th fastest Cat 1 time and 16th fastest overall time. The Sea Otter Classic attracts the fastest racers from the west coast and beyond [...]
Ah, the Sea Otter Classic… 40miles, 7500’ climb. I’ve never done a race like this, so admittedly I was a bit nervous. I’d pre-ridden the course on Wednesday and knew it was loose and rutty…and a bit boring. So much fire road! I gave BadKarma who had come to support me my spare bottle for [...]
Quadzilla Racing continued its awesome inaugural racing season with another victory posted with a strong ride by Chris “Sota-Pop” Sota in the Sport Men 19-34 Category. Jon “JQ” Smith recovered and salvaged 2nd place in a strong Expert Men 19-34 field after surviving a crash in which his bike was damaged. It was the first [...]
Yet another work late wake up early race day for me. The weeks leading up to this race were scattered with un-focused training rides, more or less just get myself out and put a little hurt on the legs. With Sea Otter one week out from NVDC I more or less wanted to use this [...]
Morning comes really early when you have to drive over 2 hours to the race… I arrived at the race site and got squared away registered and bike prep’d. It was sunny but cool so I had all my warmers on with compression socks and a undershirt for core warmth. I decided to try to [...]
