well the 100 miles of grinding is over. im not sure how i feel about the race i went as hard as i could ended up 45th out of 20o which im happy with. i could have done better but could have done worse. the freaking forest road climbs were sick. the longest was no joke 10 miles long at like 10-14% covered something like 3000 feet and a whole bunch of 2-3 mile climbs that were leg breakers. the little bit of single track was great (30 miles) it just happened to be covered in mud at the start and i was to blown at the end to enjoy it. the area is amazing big pines and red clay with vert. walls up and down the valley for miles.
the actual race was ok me and magnus got really good starts i was top 15 for about 2 mins then told myself if i didnt slow down i was going to die. it was pretty cool to be right there with floyd, chris e, harlan, and the other really fast guys. the first 3 miles were on a 3 mile paved climb i think i could have made it over with them but that might have been the end of the race for me so i dropped some gears and found the next group which included magnus. thats pretty much how we enterd the single track. then it was catch some people get passed by some people for the next 85 miles. i need to figure out how to finish stronger the last 15 miles i was in full mangina scream and it cost me one of my goals .
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That's a good placing. You even had time for photos!
Wang
im sure you know that the pics were on the friday ride. if we would only have had that weather on sat. say what you want about floyd guilty is guilty but he is the only big name that i have seen blow up and still finish he still beat me but finished more than 40 min. down to the leaders. tinker dnf'd every time he dropped out of the top 5 last year.
Tinker's hair weighs 15 pounds alone. No wonder he can't finish.
wang
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