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- May 8, 2004
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Well I got one phrase to some up the race course at the River Front Race, HELL UNDER WATER !!!!
David and I road about 4 laps Saturday, about 40 miles total. It was real wet with some nasty tight woods sections. That was the easy part !!!! It's when you hit the mud run, as we liked to call it, that things got really hard.
At about mile 3 or 4 you hit a part of the trail that is nothing but a series of mud holes. We are not talking little "OH hell I just got my boots wet" type either. More of the "OH crap, that's deeper than I thought" as your bars start to go under the water. You know how you get a good feeling about some holes because the water is real muddy looking. So you figure "cool this one isn't going to be that deep". Well then there are a few on this course that the water was CLEAR, as in it looked liked a pond. There are two places that we didn't attempt to cross due to the clarity of the water. And it was a good thing we didn't. We later run into Mike on the course, he is the race sponsor, I asked him about those holes and how deep they were. He just got this cheesy grin when he said about chest deep or more !!!! Now how is a person suppose to cross something like that????
Most of the mud holes we went through came up to about our seats. There was one nasty one we went through that our front end dropped off with the water about up to the bars. It was a short one though. So you are able to gun it and start up the other side just as soon as you drop off in it.
As for the rest of the course. It was fun with some great fast sections and also some good whoops. I'm not sure how anyone can do 100 miles on this course. I guess that's why he's called it the Iron Man race. Good luck to anyone who decides to ride the race. I hope this will help you some. Maybe some of you Heartland guys can make the race on Sunday. I will be there at 8am sharp, will save a parking spot for anyone who thinks they can make it. Thanks Lee
David and I road about 4 laps Saturday, about 40 miles total. It was real wet with some nasty tight woods sections. That was the easy part !!!! It's when you hit the mud run, as we liked to call it, that things got really hard.
At about mile 3 or 4 you hit a part of the trail that is nothing but a series of mud holes. We are not talking little "OH hell I just got my boots wet" type either. More of the "OH crap, that's deeper than I thought" as your bars start to go under the water. You know how you get a good feeling about some holes because the water is real muddy looking. So you figure "cool this one isn't going to be that deep". Well then there are a few on this course that the water was CLEAR, as in it looked liked a pond. There are two places that we didn't attempt to cross due to the clarity of the water. And it was a good thing we didn't. We later run into Mike on the course, he is the race sponsor, I asked him about those holes and how deep they were. He just got this cheesy grin when he said about chest deep or more !!!! Now how is a person suppose to cross something like that????
Most of the mud holes we went through came up to about our seats. There was one nasty one we went through that our front end dropped off with the water about up to the bars. It was a short one though. So you are able to gun it and start up the other side just as soon as you drop off in it.
As for the rest of the course. It was fun with some great fast sections and also some good whoops. I'm not sure how anyone can do 100 miles on this course. I guess that's why he's called it the Iron Man race. Good luck to anyone who decides to ride the race. I hope this will help you some. Maybe some of you Heartland guys can make the race on Sunday. I will be there at 8am sharp, will save a parking spot for anyone who thinks they can make it. Thanks Lee
