I recall instructing my bike to feed every time we hit that long fast switching single track going through the forest. Each time my bike's meal would be different, golden sunshile singletrack topped with fast cornering followed by turbodwarf slipsteaming and then a bit of forest single track in the mist with the stars still visible.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Donald Klopper (GMail) < [email protected]> wrote: > ... no, this is not a report... > > I just wanted to tell you if you weren't there, you missed out... it was > AWESOME. > > Some rain, some mud, some sleep, LOTS OF fun. > > And we were in the only category that I remember that had a team that got > to the podium for a 4th place finish (someone must have spoken to the > organisers because that 4th placed team was a bit of a special team, being a > D&D team and all...). > > Not a single flat, no mechanical issues, no injuries. > > I only flew over the handlebars ONCE, which in 66km of riding isn't all > that bad... memo to self: don't assume the front wheel will pop out of the > muddy hole before hitting the bridge. > > Our team did 50 laps (actually 49 since we got an extra lap for doing more > than 7 laps at night ... AS IF WE WOULDN'T...). > > So the "real" distance was 406.7km assuming 8.3km per lap... > > 3rd placed team was Red Ants, and they did 58 laps... and they only lost > out to 2nd place due to a 10 second missing the 12h00 end-of-race clock. > > Thanks Adri for organising the team. > > WOW. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DarkAndDirty" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<darkanddirty%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en. > -- "Dream big and live those dreams. Why ration passion. Pursue Passion. Death and/or old age is coming, we must live sweet. The time is now. It is not only life, but the quality of this life." - Mike Libecki http://thespoonthatbends.blogspot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en.
