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[QUOTE="SirThumper, post: 170450, member: 19789"] Not having raced a H & H before, I can't compare it to any other coarse but, I thought the course was awesome. The first loop was mostly dried up (rocky) river beds and old RR beds, throw in the dustiest roads you can imagine with the sharpest lava rocks there is known to man and you pretty much have the first loop. It was 33 miles long and for me went by really fast, even though I crashed hard and washed out a couple of times. One of those I was trying to avoid a downed rider that lost it in a corner with about 2ft of powdered dust in it. The second loop was the best, it had a ton of high speed sandy trails that I could really get into a rythym with. It had some nice water crossings that I saw a couple guys stuck in and 1 big hill to climb too. I did have an advantage in the fact that this type of terrain is what I ride mostly here in Idaho. Climbing big hills, going down big hills, going over rocks, trees, mud bogs, is not a problem for me for the most part. The coarse itself was a blast. The hardest section, in my opinion, was a steep down hill with jagged rocks in it. Some were loose and some were not, if you let your bike get out of hand, it could get ugly real quick. (I saw the results of that when I got to the bottom) Some said the long, steep, uphill climb was the hardest for them, it was made up of loose shale rock and was a big hill. I enjoyed that part myself. Hands down though, not being able to see most of the time was the hardest part about the race to me. The crew did a great job marking the coarse, The only problem I had was that when I came upon a orange danger marker, it ws to late to avoid the said danger, I just plain got lucky a few times and pulled it out. In those conditions the markers could have been 50ft from the danger Zone and that would have helped. If a guy was in the lead and was not going through dust he would have been fine though. The danger markers were to close to the danger zones for anyone else. I didn't wear any roll offs nor did I wear tear offs. Noone in town had any for my smith warp goggles (roll-offs), so I used some Pledge on them and went for it. I did wear a wrist sweatband to wipe them clear with, it worked to some degree. I'm not sure Who ended up winning the O/A. I will do another H & H, it was a blast. I would like to do one under different conditions, where things were a lot less dusty, I'm totaly healthy, and my bike set up properly. If I race in the dust like that again I will take some allergy medicine before hand so I don't clog up like I did. I hate the fact that dust can get to me that bad, a couple friends ask if I went down hard cause my eyes were so bloodshot. I learned a ton of information in that race and I gained confidence for the next one. I was even happy for my friend who passed me, he has been trying very hard in MX to beat me for a long time. when he passed me he said he had the biggest grin on his face he ever had. He later said that I was the only guy he wanted to beat. I got a big kick out of that. This also was his first H&H and his first trophy ever. I just laughed and said to wait till next time.:p [/QUOTE]
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