Webster Groves

I was the only one from the team racing Webster Groves and it was a long drive so I sacrificed comfort for economy, loaded up the Honda and headed East.

Neat venue and a nice course. 55 minutes + 6 laps at just less than a mile per lap. It’s mostly flat with a little up-hill on the back followed by a long gradual down-hill. That leads into a short chute with bumpy pavement and a 90 deg RH turn with two man-hole covers, finishing in a 100 yard sprint to the line. Big Shark, Dog Fish, Gateway and Mesa were the largest teams. There were somewhere around 60 starters and enough horsepower that nothing got very far up the road for very long. I was feeling good and tried an attack of my own about 25 minutes in, but no one went with me so I sat out front for a lap and a half before I was back in the pack.

There were four $50 prime that kept it lively. I didn’t really contest any of them. I was more concerned with making the break if one went and then the sprint finish

I was in pretty good position for the last lap and ended up second wheel on the down-hill. The guy in front of me backed off the pace a bit and I should have jumped then, but I didn’t. I was remembering the state RR where I went too soon and got passed by three guys in the final 200 meters. Five guys came around me before the final turn and that’s basically how it ended with me in 6th.

They posted the results before I even had a chance to finish loading up my bike and I was on the road for the long drive home, cash in-hand, a half hour after the race was over.

The money I “saved” in gas (compared to driving the Suburban) was enough to buy lunch on the way there, pay my entry fee, support my habit with an ice cold java chip frappuccino (size venti of course) after the race and top it off with a couple margaritas and a chimichanga when I got back in town. Now if I could just drive the Honda that far every day I could afford a new bike ;-).