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[QUOTE="SirThumper, post: 170150, member: 19789"] Let me start by thanking those who offered me sound advice before the race, I really am gratefull for all of it. [B]It helped.[/B] Saturday morning was spent signing up and figuring out just what class I was to race. There were only a couple of O/30 Nov. guys so I decided to go with the 4-Stoke Nov class. After watching the first wave take off I was so nervous, I knew I had to start that 420 on the first kick or I was dead meat. well it started and I was in fourth untill we went down pit row wide open where I passed two guys and there I stayed for most of the race. I began catching the tail end of the yellow class bikes about 15 miles into the race and passed a couple guys that I went down to the race with and that had started 5 minutes ahead of me.:) . about 5 min later I was pushing a little to hard considering I could'nt see a dang thing, and [I]WHAM[/I], my fornt end is no longer pointing the right way and I launch over the bars and crash in the rocks, only to have my buddies go by whooping and hollerin. I jumped back on and took off and I noticed that I couldn't hold on to the bike very well cause I tweaked my wrist I had broken 2 1/2 months ago. My collar bone was also stinging pretty good. It took a bit but pretty soon I was back up to speed. Another near crash I had was just after a checkpoint I had a good gap in front of me and I just took off like a rocked and hit a dip in the trail at about 60MPH, (it was marked, but I didn't get it shut down quite fast enough). Again,[I]WHAM[/I], I launch through the air agian, this time still on my bike, off through the 4ft high sage brush trying to gain controll and get back on the trail without hitting all the big rocks I was going through. I saved it, and gave thanks to the man up stairs for making it possible, man did my ankles hurt. First loop complete, I cruise into the pits at 5mph and was greeted with a great pit crew who took care of my bike while I changed goggles and got a drink of ice cold water. I asked where I was and trenton says "man, you are smoking, there has been no other green number plates pass here yet. About that time the first guy left the pits ahead of me. Trenton told me he figured I was about half way in the middle of the yellow class bikes and I took off. In my opinion the second loop was the fast loop, I was flying, I caught and passed a lot of bikes and was doing great untill my wrist just started aching bad. It got to the point that I could barely hold on to the bike. I knew I had to back off or crash hard so I put it on cruise control and tried to relax my wrist. The dust was terrible and that is putting in mildly. I could not see most of the time. At a point in the second loop I had clear sailing for about 30 miles and I made up a lot of ground there but for the most part of the race I ate dust. I got choked up once while getting a drink of water and dang near brought myself to tears:) Hacking and coughing while tear- assing down a trail is not recomended. At the gas stop, I gassed up and took off, went through the checkpoint and I look down and I was in such a hurry to get going I had left my gas lid off:scream: , luckily it was still in between my Pro-Taper pad and my number plate. The last 10 miles my wrist was in agony and because of it I was fading. I knew I was still in second because I had not seen the leader and noone had passed me....yet. Along came a bike and to my surprise it was a friend of mine. I stayed with him for a while untill I had to back off again or loose the bike. I finished right behind him and took 3rd. It turned out that the first three bikes were in the same class:) I was never so glad as to top the big hill and see the finish several miles away I knew I could make in that much further. The dust really tore me up, my eyes were bloodshot for the rest of the day and I am talking funny today from breathing so much dust. I had a blast all in all and I got a nice plauqe to hang on my wall. I ended up washing out about 3 times, killing my bike twice, and crashing hard once. Over shooting a corner 3 or 4 times, following a guy off the trail for about 50ft, passing about 1/3 of the yellow class bikes in one shot because they went the wrong way and was in retreat, I saw the problem and ended up off the hill before they got back through the gate, I bet there were 15 to 20 of them, all coming back down that hill. At fist I did not know what was going on, then I realized they had went the wrong way. The only problem I had with my bike was that it was set up for the MX track and was as stiff as a board, by the end of the race I felt every last piece of gravel I hit. I'll know better next time. I can't wait for the next one. I'll be a little smarter, ride an intermediate class, and have my bike set up better. It was fun. [/QUOTE]
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