Sea Otter

Alisha says: Last weekend I traveled to California and raced Sea Otter at and around the Laguna Seca Raceway with my Primal/MapMyRide teammates. There is a lot going on at this event and that is what makes it really cool. There is a big expo that many of our sponsors attended and had booths set up as well as a ton of mountain bike and road bike events happening non stop for four days.

In addition to racing we got in some great sponsor time spending a lot of it in the Primal tent. We were treated to have Allen Lim and Biju Thomas cook us most of our meals from their Skratch Labs food truck. If you are an athlete and want some awesome recipes you should check out their cookbook The Feed Zone. We also visited BH Bikes, posed in masks and moustaches at Sidi and went on a nice media ride along the beautiful 17 mile drive in Carmel.

When we weren't visiting with sponsors we were racing! The stage race consisted of a crit, road race, time trail, and circuit race.  The highlight was going after the queen of the mountain points in the road and circuit races. I was able to collect enough points to win the Queen of the Mountain competition. The bummer was that I had to miss podium in order to head to the airport to catch my flight that I ended up missing anyway. I was able to get on a later flight and Emily stood in for me on the podium so I guess everything worked out.

 Going for QOM Points

 Media Ride

 Visiting Sidi

 Visiting BH

Racing

Emily filling in for me on the Podium