This year's weather looked to be slightly more promising, only producing cold with no snow or mud. Awesome. So onward:
- Liane asks if I want to be a on a team. I tentatively accept.
- I ride it my first time with Erik in Nov, takes about 2:45 and I fell once. Not terrible - and I didn't do the last His & Her's trail part.
- I ride it with Liane, Heather & Nicole. We get rained on. Takes about 2:40 for that.
- I go with Erik and friends and try to lead the slow group, I fail. I leave the group behind - suckers! I do 1 full loop and a half loop. The full loop I did in 2:20 and I stopped frequently in hopes those behind me would catch up.
- No night riding - I did all that training at FI.
- Arrive on Friday and set up camp by Elaine and Zac.
- Start to get cold.
- Commiserate with Elaine & Liane over the lateness of Nate and fire
- Eventually Nate shows up, everyone rejoices
- I enjoy a brat from the food vendors with a little too much horseradish mustard. Sinuses = CLEAR!
- Hang out around fire
- To bed early as it'll be the last good sleep I get for a bit
- Slept in
- Made it to the pre-race meeting where Todd reminded us to play nice. Crunchy....
- Watched Heather be our lead rider
- Elke went 2nd
- Liane went 3rd
- I contemplated the amount of daylight I would get
- I head out with about an hour of light. Sweet!
- Made it to the arch before turning on my light
- Some dude mooched off my light on the stupid climb
- Sweet downhill and my first lap was done! (1:58)
- Heather goes out, some dumb@ss knocks her over
- Elke goes out, her back tightens up
- Liane goes out and comes back
- I decide to sleep for awhile because it just looks like the 2 of us
- I go out about 7 and take the nice sunrise lap, a bit longer than the first lap (2:10)
- DONE! Celebratory beer
- Wait for Elke and Liane to finish and we all celebrate surviving our first 24 hr race together.
- Perhaps next year???
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