One problem thou, only one finish.
So after a seven hour drive out to Ohio for the Mohican 100, a crappy night sleep and an early wake up call my race ended WAY to early (less then 20 miles in) when some nice young lady decided to take out the rear half on my drivechain. Derailleur hanger snapped, damaged derailleur and whacked rear wheel.
I guess the plus was that it happened right at a check point, and a couple bystanders offered to drive me back to the finish. So my Mohican day ended in a little under 10 hours, to bad seven of those was the drive home.
After an emergency late night repair by the Bikewrench, Wifey and I headed down to Iron Hill for the four hour endurance race yesterday.
After an early morning shower the 50 or so enduro riders (23 in the Open I think) headed into a slimly, slippery mess that was the trail. I went into the trail in forth and held that until I sled out on a wooden bridge toward the end of the 5.5 mile lap. Hiting the brakes on a wet wooden bridge any ten year old can tell you is a bad idea. Braking to change lines and miss the huge root coming up would be a good idea, unless your rear wheel is still on said wooden bridge.
The good thing is my two Teamates that passed me as I was countin fingers and toes did not see my jackass move.
On the third lap the trail started to dry out and things were moving nice. As I rolled thru to start my forth lap friends yell to "go get the wife, she just went into the trail" (the Sport class started two hours after the enduros did.) So after a quick howdy with Wifey (I think it boiled down to me yellin "give me a line") and her throwing an elbow my way I was off. Really, I'm pretty sure she was elbowing me out.
So lap five ran into lap six and then into seven with no changes. I finished the day in 6th with a little over 35 miles in the saddle. The body was a little sore from the "short race" the day before and the knee by no means felt right, but I was happy with how things ended up.
The next Kenda Cup XC is this weekend, but we'll see what the Doc's says tomorrow before making a call on that one.
Huge congrat's to Jason and Rich B on the sub ten hour times they threw down Saturday, nice work guys.
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I was sorry to see you on the side of the trail. Sucks to have driven that far only to have a mechanical, er, "incident" that soon.
Yeah man, when I heard you shout at me, I was like "what the f?" Sorry man. Way to bounce back for Sun. and good luck with the docs.
Thx guys, I was a little shocked at how impatient a couple riders were. They were treating that first 15 miles like a XC race.
But it's already on the schedule for next year.
Wow dude that blows. I hope it all heals up quickly. You should come on down to Vadge for the Massanutten Hoo Ha if you can. The XC is good but the XXC is epic.
Peace,
Metro
Metro,
Wifey and I will be there Sunday, just not sure if I'm in for the XC or the XXC. Not really much info online about the whole thing thou.
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