2012 Ski2Sea is a wrap and another year of great success for our
Bike Barn team! We had a fantastic squad put together for the race, with myself, Aart Van Kooy and
Jeff Symonds are all
Bike Barn employees. We all joke about how serious the race is somewhat jokingly but you have to have a pretty serious team to take the W in this event that has been around since the early 80's. I hear old stories from my father that start with "back in the old days when ski2sea first started". Back then for the road TT they wore sweat pants and no helmets, nowadays the top guys like our roadie had a 10,000 bike, skin suit and an aero helmet...Or myself on the MTB downhill leg that is all on the road wearing an aero helmet, skin suit, 29'er bike, road chain rings, road cassette, booties etc..you get that point that we much geek out for what I can our local "World Championship" It seems like more people would know you in town if you won Ski2Sea over a World Cup mountain bike race..Olympics step in just above Ski2Sea.
Jeff Symonds video report is up and ultra motivating for anyone who has not done the race or I should say awesome family event to attend! Here's the video:
2012 Ski2Sea race recap video
Here is the newspaper report:
Click this link It explains our close by not so close chance of possibly but not really possibly losing the race for a crazy reason..
Already excited for next years event, fingers crossed it won't overlap with a big race like a World Cup or anything..
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