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Sunday's race was pretty crazy, here's how it went down:

0625 - I line up at the start.
0626 - I do about 8 double-takes, and receive verbal confirmation from my team mate, before realizing that my LA had flown to Maui just to be at my race! Surprise!!! How freakin' cool is that!!!
0627 - My team mate David says "Oh shit, someone's going to attack early!"
0630 - Race Starts
0630 - I attack off the line
0632 - Wireless SRM loses contact with Power and HR sensors
0635 - Finally manage to pair up the SRM PCVI and crankset to get power readings

I spent the best part of the next 2hrs riding own my own... From about 4000ft I could see Chris Lieto chasing me on his own about 1-2mins behind. At about 7500ft Chris was getting close, so I sat up and waited. We worked together for a bit, but he was taking some hard pulls and I eventually decided to let him go...

Somewhere about 8500ft I got off my bike to adjust my rear derailleur as the gears were jumping all over the place.

I had one time check that Lieto was 4mins ahead of me, but when I got to the lower parking lot the guys at the turn were going nuts and telling me that Chris wasn't much ahead. Had I know I was so close I don't think I'd have stopped to fix my gears earlier, but shit happens. I'll never know how things would have panned out had I kept on the gas instead of taking care of the mechanical.

I wound up crossing the line 59sec behind Lieto, with last years winner, Dennis Farrell from Colorado, closing in fast to take 3rd place. After the finish, Chris told me that he was close to passing out on the final part of the climb and had to weave around the road to make it up... If I was riding a Trek TTX time trial bike with aerobars I'd probably have been weaving too. That's bad ass!

The best part about the finish was having L.A. (wearing black) right there!
Photo: C.Roberson

At the summit of Haleakala.

TOP 10 Results
1) Chris Lieto 2:51:46
2) Mike Zagorski 2:52:45 @ 0:00:59 (Winner of 20-29 age group)
3) Dennis Farrell 2:53:00 @ 0:01:13
4) Ray Brust 2:56:28 @ 0:04:41
5) Rick Beach 2:56:49 @ 0:05:03
6) Giel De Nijs 2:57:05 @ 0:05:18
7) Tony Lany 2:58:11 @ 0:06:25
8) Brian Todeschi 3:00:01 @ 0:08:15
9) David Lelong 3:00:22 @ 0:08:36 (Winner of 17-18 age group)
10) Gary Tingley 3:12:38 @ 0:20:52


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