hey all - quick recap as i am at the free hotel wireless computer - got 10 minutes, so here goes.
saturday morning i woke up to rain and temps in the 60's. hoping that it would clear out, i ate breakfast and tried to think at the task at hand. got ready and headed down to the tents around 10:45'ish.
the pits were a buzzin' with the riders going over last minute preparations. nat ross and chris eataugh's tent were going crazy (think they must of had 10 people helping them, all together). it purely was a spectacle.
i went over my stuff, made some changes due to the weather and told dad and dan to get out my cold weather stuff because more than likely i will need it.
they called us to the start, gun goes off and we are in full flight.
single track was muddy, the crushed gravel trails were covering us with little pieces of gravel, but the first laps were fast. they made some slight changes here/there (one short/one long single track section). i knew i was highly placed after two laps, but i didn't know exactly were i was sitting place wise. i almost didn't want to know - but all i knew is that nobody was in sight.
on the third lap, a blue jersey comes in view in front of me. hmm. looks to be. no it can't. hmm.. is that? holy shi*! no it can't be. holy shi* - i just caught nat! i just caught nat! we talked awhile, went back and forth and then i just picked it up on some single track, put a little gap on him and then made the gap bigger on a climb.
all the while, rain was a comin' down. and down. and down. mud was prevalant and it looked to be very similar race course descriptions to snowshoe a few weeks back.
slight issues with mounting a light led to nat catching and passing me - putting 5 minutes into me. within two laps, i caught him, and reversed the situation, putting in roughly 5 minutes into him every lap.
by morning, the pits were a buzzin' with the guy on the 29r who was flying - and it wasn't nat ross. it was ernesto and he made a 40 minute gap to chris e go to twenty minutes.
by the end of the day, chris e put had about a half hour on me. i had over a 30-40 minute lead on third place nat ross.
quick results, as best as i can remember:
1. chris e
2. ernesto marenchin
3. nat ross
4. ? think he was from britian
5. mark hendershot
6. sloane anderson
that's it - gotta run before the hotel people get worked up.
longer version tomorrow sometime before i take off at noon west coast time.
sologoat out.
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