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Wild Boar Enduro 3/14
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[QUOTE="MelloYello, post: 750261, member: 36936"] When I think of all the hardwork, the hours clearing and marking trail, the blood, sweat and tears the Timekeepers shed to put on the Wild Boar, I could just pummel them all with a baseball bat.:p (Borrowed from President Bartlett) My day started out optimistically enough. Being the only rider on my minute, I didn't have to deal with the dust and I accidentally zeroed the first check. I got through the two special tests ok (although the Bad Ass Trail kicked mine). At gas, I started to feel my thighs cramping a little so I ate a banana and drank a lot of water. I take off from gas and whadaya know, I zero another check.:yeehaw: (Again, quite by accident.:whiner: I'm new to timekeeping) The checker tells me to haul ass, so I oblige, trying to do at least half of the 24MPH average. The trails start getting tighter and steeper and my muscles start cramping tighter and harder and Wham-o! into the bushes I go. I am now contorted among the manzanita and as I try to extricate myself, the cramping increases exponentially. Whooppee! (Borrowed from endoquest) As I lay there writhing in pain, a wave of emotions flowed over me. First came Despair: Oh God, why is this happening to me? Have I not volunteered enough for trail maintenance? Then came Disgust: Why do I suck so bad? And why am I in such bad physical shape? Then came Depression when I realized that I might not finish. I sat there in my personal manzanita thicket for a few minutes thinking about what to do next. There was still another 30 miles of trail to the finish and I was certain they were not going to be "emotionally-fluctuating, cramping-like-a-room-full-of-women-and-their-special-friends, rider-friendly" trails.:eek: (Sorry, ladies, for the insensitive analogy.) I eventually got back on the bike and started slowly (even moreso than before) down the trail. I began to feel a little better and decided to grit my teeth and finish, even if I houred out. The next thirty miles were excruciating and eye-opening. I never thought I had a lot of determination and drive in me, but making it to the end, the whole time wavering between thoughts of "How much can I get for this bike?" and "I wonder what the Sawmill will be like?", showed me otherwise. And I realized that I've come a long way in the 2 1/2 years that I've been riding dirtbikes. And that in another 2 1/2 years, I will have learned a lot more and hopefully be in better shape that I won't want to puke myself inside out when I get back to the truck. And for all that, thank you, Timekeepers. (And may you all burn eternally in Hell.:p) [/QUOTE]
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