This race was on Sunday May 25th in Muscatine Iowa. The course was located in beautiful Weed Park. Eric Knox and Travis Jass drove on over from Davenport and myself (Ben Acree) made the trek down from Fort Dodge. The category 4 race was 14 laps of a one mile circuit in the park, which had a very fast downhill with a speed bump at the bottom, yes a speed bump, followed by a nice little climb. There were about 58 to 60 riders to show up for this race. The first picture is of myself, off to the right a bit. Unfortunately, only made it 5 laps before the lungs quit on me. Live to race again.
The second picture is Travis taking a flier off the front on the sweeping downhill. Nice job Travis.
This third picture shows the speed bump we had to jump at 35 mph, can actually see the racer in yellow on the far left is airborne. Check out the mattresses against the post on the other side of the street.
The picture below shows Eric just about to take flight.
To the right, we have Travis actually either crashing into the mattress, taking a nap after two grueling days of racing or hamming it up for the camera.
And finally, we have Travis again with the envelope after finishing 9th. Nice job!! Eric finished in the main pack, which is quite the accomplishment considering the snake alley race was just 24 hours prior. It was a fun weekend, next race looks to be the Johnston Green Days Criterium. Thanks to Diane Jass for the attached pictures.
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