San Diego Tour 2010 - will it rain?

For the last few years, it has rained on at least one of the two days of the San Diego Tour. This year, the event is being held a few weeks later. Early forecasts indicated that it might still rain at some point during this event.

I'm coming in to this event very tired. I have a take home exam and two papers due for the last day of class next Tuesday (the Tuesday after the event). I'm still looking forward to this weekend. The competition is going to be intense.

We are ready to go on Saturday and there is no rain - yet. It does look like there will be no rain during runs.

We start out with the first run and I'm in first place, but Will hasn't run yet. He's dirty, so I stay in first. Run two is no improvement. I start out with a really good first section. My shift light is going off at the end of a tricky section. I'm excited and make a mistake, effectively throwing the run away.

In the mean time, everybody is starting to go faster and people are passing my time. There is one more run to go. Let's see what I can do with this. I do the same thing going out on my third run and hit the shift light again and I'm so thrilled with this section that I forget about the upcoming turn - oops. Another run down the drain. Some faster times are being laid down still.



This is an odd weekend. I'm exhausted, but having fun. I'm also doing things that make no sense - I almost walk into people, I leave my credit card at dinner, making silly mistakes on course, the circuit breakers for our room go out and we have no heat/air conditioning etc. I see how this weekend is going already. It's only Saturday.

Sunday doesn't start out any better. I cone away decent runs on my first two runs and decide to run a conservative run to stay in the trophies. This run ends up being 7/10 slower and is a mistake. It leaves the door open for others to sneak in ahead of me and they do.



One funny thing that did happen - what are the odds of getting the exact same time as somebody else, at the same event, in the same class, in different Civic's on different tires? Well, it happened. Jon and I had the exact same time.



By the end of the day, I've dropped to 6th place, the last trophy spot in ST. It's nice to trophy, but it sure sucks to be at the bottom of the trophy list knowing what could have been. And no, it does not rain this event - though it did sprinkle briefly when we weren't running. With the recent earthquakes in the area, we were also speculating if there would be another quake during the event, but that fortunately didn't come to pass either.

The drive back was a very long one. I had one Monster, a Starbucks and 3 stops in order to make it home in one piece. The next event will hopefully be better - I'll be done with class at least.

I almost forgot. We did get some nice photographs:




Thanks for taking the photos Mike.


Here are a few videos from the weekend:


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