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[QUOTE="the Eel, post: 1240531, member: 19952"] ... I was getting so tired I started tipping over regularly and stalling frequently. My hands would periodically stop working. When I would tip over a few times I would just lay there and think about how I should not get up. Just lay there ... you don't have to get up. Lay there. Go to sleep. :) The forest was dark and you had to look right down at your front wheel to follow the trail. The maze went on and on. At points along the trail the club had posted signs or tokens of their affection ... I saw an arm hanging off a tree, I rode through areas with names like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, and once passed a pair of dirty underwear draped in some branches on the side of the trail. Chernobyl in particular was nightmarish - literally fresh cut by the club - bushwacked through dense brush - about 1/2 mile if that - and I stalled the bike about 20 times it was so tight and slow - all logs to drag over and cut off stumps to pull around. It was a death march for me after mile 65 or so. I marched like a dead man to 88.5 where there was supposed to be a final rest stop, but when I arrived - 80 minutes late - it was no longer there. The place was deserted and the ribbon back to the staging area had been pulled. I never saw sweep, or if I did, they had just kept on going past me. Luckily 88.5 was at a major road, so knowing I had now certainly houred out (verging on 2 houred out!), I took off my gear, ate a powerbar, and just thought for a bit. You become pensive at times like this. You think about life. Besides, with only a handful of gas left in the tank and not knowing where I was, I wasn't going anywhere soon. At this point I had been on the bike for about 7 hours. After a little while a guy in a blue Mustang stopped to ask if I was OK and it turns out I was just up the road from the staging area. What a relief. I rode back toward Elfendahl and stopped for a little gas from some cool guys along the way. Thanks fellas! When I arrived back at camp, with 90.47 on the ODO, I was a little surprised to find out that noone even knew I was still out there. When I handed in my card I was just told I had houred out and was DQ'd. Cool - thanks for the 411, bud. it's all good. I'll be back next time better prepared - better bike setup and better fitness. And as a member of a club so there's someone who's got my back. Great race. Well marked. Super trail. Glad to be in Washington - it's gonna be a steep learning curve ! [/QUOTE]
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