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Congratulations, guys. Your total kms are
quite impressive and serve as an inspiration to us mortals.
mike lang
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 8:56 AM
Subject: [obc] National 24 hour Challenge
- Michael Lau
Michael Lau and I arrived in
Ottawa at 10:00 last night after our 11
hour drive back from Middleville,
MI ( 23 miles south of Grand Rapids );
site of the 19th annual National 24
hour Challenge. ) Results will be
posted later on the N24HC website
http://www.n24hc.org/index.html
There
were almost 550 riders and Michael Lau from the OBC was fourth in
mileage
and won his age category with 438 miles ( 712 kms ) during the
23 hours
that he was on the bike. Michael could not get another 6.1
mile loop
( there were 3 loops - 125, 22 and 6 miles ) in the last 12
minutes. The top rider was Tom Buckley ( from Illinois, who
rides 100
miles a day to work and back; almost everyday ) along with the
2nd and
third best mileage results were all RAMM riders that had placed in
the
top 5. Tom had 472 miles. What I found even more
remarkable is that
all the other top riders had support and crews at each
checkpoint and
approximately 35% of the people had their own crew.
My congratulations
goes out to Michael Lau for an outstanding
accomplishment; he was
actually pulling the RAMM rides for some of the
event, quite remarkable
and having a conversation with
them. I learned a lot from Michael and
hope some day to
return to the N24HC with this experience to improve my
mileage.
It
was great to hear the Canadian National Anthem played before the
start of
the event and a pace car for the lead group (until they dropped
me)
I did not do as well, but I set a personal best of 327 miles or 533
kms
in the 19 hours; miles ( 192 day and 135 night ); since I had
problems
with dehydration and energy level; I tried to
keep up with the lead
pack until the first check point ( 33.8 miles
) , but lost the group in
the check point punching madness; imagine - over
50 riders and then 100
come in fast to have their cards punched and then
everyone sprints out.
Three of us tried for another 7 miles
to catch them, but to no avail;
good thing too, since my heartrate was too
high. I finished the 125
miles in 6.5 hours. The main
pack ( 25 riders ) was 5.5 hours. I rode
with a camelbak and two
bottles with Ensure, but it was not enough. I
took a break for
almost 45 minutes to have lunch and to get re-hydrated
and stopped again
at the check-point to eat again; I took another break
after the 3
loops of 22 miles and tried to get my energy up; I stopped
several
times during the night and actually had good rests of 30 to 60
minutes (
enough to drive back yesterday ). My strained right shoulder
muscle
was hurting and needed more stretching and medication.
Overall; it was a very impressive to see over 500 riders at the
start
and ride with so many fast riders in the race for setting new
records
and personal bests.
Unfortunately, Another friend was
not so lucky; he crashed after 2 hours
when a part on his bike locked up;
he went flying and ended up with a
lot of abrasion and a broken clavicle,
a separated shoulder and some
pulled muscles and will take at least 6
weeks to recover and will
probably miss the Boston - Montreal - Boston
1200 kms brevet .
Another rider just a head of Michael Lau ( two bikes up
and four from me
)hit another bike and he went flying - he received a
broken collar bone
and a concussion; this in a pack of more than 100
riders, just 20
minutes into the race. His bike was completely
wrecked;
There were several riders from Canada and even a
rider from Sweden; last
year riders from 24 states, Canada and
France. A great course and one
that I would really like to
return in the future with my experience to
improve on my personal
best. Again, my thanks for Michael Lau for
inviting
me to the National 24 hour Challenge and for his gracious
support of
me during the last few days and certainly wish him luck in
the Gold Rush
Randonee ( 1200 kms loop in Northern CA ) , during the
July 7th
weekend
I will try to write up some more on the N24HC
later
David McCaw
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