the Eel
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- Sep 23, 2000
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Raced in the TWMC Sunrise Run last Sunday. The 8 am start time had me rolling out of bed right around 4:30 am - which was especially painful since I spent the day before checkin' out cool bands and drinking beers at KROQ's Weenie Roast.
I blasted out to Spangler and arrived around 7:30 AM ... then hopped to it - sign up, program the WatchDog, suit up, and time to race.
The amateur race was 48 miles long - twice around an 18 mile loop and then another 12 or so. It was in the 90's so I was pretty hurtin' by about 40 or so. The course was fairly tough as TWMC's go and some of the speeds were higher than we've seen in awhile ... howzabout 48 MPH and 72 MPH in spots !?!! So this race actually had people dropping minutes. But June events are notoriously tough and this one kept the tradition. It was fast but if you rode hot then you could do OK. I found out later that there were no checks within 3 miles of the resets at free time back at camp .... wish I had made the rider's meeting to find this out. If you got a head start at the resets you could do well. Alas, I did not get a head start and only pulled 7th amateur. Not too bad I guess .. always learning, always learning.
The course was a combo of quite chewed-up flat trail ... real loose ... alot of deep whoops, some very loose hillclimbs which gave some people problems, and one winding rock littered gulch with a little rock waterfall. The course was UGLY with a capital U but it was actually pretty cool ... pretty demanding on the legs and arms, especially with the heat, but once again the result of someone's hard work and creative choices (Hats off to Fred Mulder and company! ). I did some mighty dog-paddling to get up a few of the hillclimbs .... I bet that looked creative !
KelsoRat was the only Wrecking Crew member to show ... guys, what's up ? You are really missing out here. Kelso rocks ... he was out there in the 100 degree heat racing on a big-boy DRZ ... give the man a freakin' medal for that ! What's up with the crew ? Oh yeah, it was father's day wasn't it ... well maybe next time.
Hope to see you then ....
I blasted out to Spangler and arrived around 7:30 AM ... then hopped to it - sign up, program the WatchDog, suit up, and time to race.
The amateur race was 48 miles long - twice around an 18 mile loop and then another 12 or so. It was in the 90's so I was pretty hurtin' by about 40 or so. The course was fairly tough as TWMC's go and some of the speeds were higher than we've seen in awhile ... howzabout 48 MPH and 72 MPH in spots !?!! So this race actually had people dropping minutes. But June events are notoriously tough and this one kept the tradition. It was fast but if you rode hot then you could do OK. I found out later that there were no checks within 3 miles of the resets at free time back at camp .... wish I had made the rider's meeting to find this out. If you got a head start at the resets you could do well. Alas, I did not get a head start and only pulled 7th amateur. Not too bad I guess .. always learning, always learning.
The course was a combo of quite chewed-up flat trail ... real loose ... alot of deep whoops, some very loose hillclimbs which gave some people problems, and one winding rock littered gulch with a little rock waterfall. The course was UGLY with a capital U but it was actually pretty cool ... pretty demanding on the legs and arms, especially with the heat, but once again the result of someone's hard work and creative choices (Hats off to Fred Mulder and company! ). I did some mighty dog-paddling to get up a few of the hillclimbs .... I bet that looked creative !
KelsoRat was the only Wrecking Crew member to show ... guys, what's up ? You are really missing out here. Kelso rocks ... he was out there in the 100 degree heat racing on a big-boy DRZ ... give the man a freakin' medal for that ! What's up with the crew ? Oh yeah, it was father's day wasn't it ... well maybe next time.
Hope to see you then ....