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[QUOTE="bishop_d, post: 717844, member: 25238"] Now that I can finally lift my arms above my waist after riding that expert split, I'll throw in my .02. As previously posted, Eel and I got bumped to the Expert class after going 1-2 in the year end points. I've got to say thank you for that flat tire in November Eel, I'm sure you had me in that race, and probably would have taken year end honors. By the way, if you ran slime, it probably wouldn't have been so easy for me to flatten. My wife was busy this weekend, so I took on the task of hauling my two boys, 6 & 11 years old, out to the event by myself. I've tried this once before, and swore I wouldn't do it again. How easily we forget. I had hoped to spend a little more time hanging out with the crew, but ended up chasing them around most of the weekend. Did a little geocaching in the morning. (If you guys have a gps and haven't tried this, check out www.geocaching.com. It's a blast.) After fixing lunch and playing Mr. Mom a little, we test rode both the kids courses to make sure the boys could make them. I really didn't expect to have to work at staying up with the older one yet, my how they progress. My 6 year old entered his first race where he finished around 14th or so, and my 11 year took third in the beginner class. Spend the rest of the night playing Mr. Mom a little more. Come race morning, I was really missing the wife. Kids are wanting to ride first thing in the morning. Luckily all the friendly women of TWMC are nice enough to watch them during the race, but I still had to get them all geared up, and give all the bikes the once over. Once I got them going, I look around and notice that while I've been tending to my offspring, all the other riders are looking like they're ready to race. After some rushing to get bike and body prep'd for the race I made it to the line with time to spare. The last thing on my mind all weekend had been my own race. At the line I find that two of the Crew, Scar and Pvt Joker, are on my min. Scar had told me about his new computer the night before, so I gave him a few tips about where to ride in your minute and what not. He listened to my advise much better than I did, since I went into the first two checks 10 & 16 seconds early. The course was a blast! I was riding with just a few seconds against me, until that nasty trick at the end of the second loop. There we were riding right at the 30 second mark, looking for a check any time and the course suddenly hangs a left where it use to go straight. From the lack of any existing trail, it didn't take long to figure out that this was a special, and we better hustle. I ended up being 7 seconds out of my minute. I was bummed at the time, but found that seven seconds, or even that minute meant very little when it came to the expert split. The third loop speeds were cranked up pretty good, so we were riding WFO most of the loop, then we get to the Ama. finish and the check crew points down the ugly virgin rocky canyon. I was really wishing I was still in the Ama class at this point! As Eel already stated, it was 1.7 miles of hell, and I was physically spent. As we approached the final hill climb, which happened to be back up the nastiest down hill of the regular course, I had nothing left to give. I spoded my way up the hill, stalled and fell over about 3/4 the way up, with all of the finished Experts and Ama's watching the newest member of the Expert class. I really wanted to just lay there and take a nap. It took everything in me just to get the bike up on two wheels, and there was no way that I was going back down that damn hill. I bulldogged it up the steep section that had wronged me, then was able to ride my way to my first Expert finish. The best part of all, later in Moore's RV, he shows the film footage he took with his new digital camera of me trying to start my bike on the hill while Eel effortlessly rides past. Looks like I’m going to need a little gym time if I’m going to ever have hopes of seeing a trophy again. Sorry for the long rambling, I think I'm still recovering. What a great weekend, can’t wait until the next one! [/QUOTE]
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