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This should probably really be titled Reimer’s Ranch but what ever.

This weekend was round # 5 of the TMBRA race series on a new course (new to TMBRA). The course is a fun pretty rocky, ledge-y 10 mile loop. It’s funny to hear the word fun come out of my mouth after determining that I SUCK at riding that stuff, but it was fun. Reimer’s was really fun to pre-ride, not so fun to race. Racing has a way of showing you how much you really suck and throwing your bike over 3 and 4 foot ledges. Anyways, my race story is going to be pretty breif.

On the Top Ten call-up I didn’t go up. There wasn’t enough room and I felt like if I was up there I would just be getting in peoples way (this was a big mistake). 3/4 of the first lap was spent behind guys that really couldn’t get their MOJO going. Once I past those guys and started making some time back on the top five, well ZUES, the cycling god, threw his pitch fork in my rear tire.
So, I casually change a flat and get back on course right after Bryan Fawley, arguably the strongest guy in TX right now, IN DEAD LAST PLACE. He had a front flat within a mile into the race. He then proceeded to have another flat shortly after I joined him at the back. I spent most of the second lap trying to get my rhythm back and passing a few of the back of the pack guys. On the third lap I just gunned it. Passed about 3 guys and was about the pass the guy right in front of me but I didn’t feel the need to be sprinting him to the line for umpteenth. Anyways, come to find out the place in front of me was the last paying position… should have sprinted. SOUR race but it happens. I finished just slightly behind where I was when I flatted. Actually had I passed the 2 guys right in front of me, like within 10 seconds in front of me, I would have been where I was when I flatted. So I figure I must have made up about 3-4 minutes back up. I guess that tells me I rode good and that is the little nugget I am going to have to pull away from this race.