100 km mountain bike race when I only finished 90km and why not the last 10km. To me it seemed at the time a lack of caring, by all means it was definitely a challenge I had put a lot of myself into it, enuff anyway for a bike race 2 weeks earlier I never knew existed.
I had come to a point slightly beaten and battered and I made a bad decision and took a wrong turn, I knew to check my gps but it was a downhill and I realized at the bottom what I had done, even without this off course tour I was not going to make the cut off. I actually knew two days earlier from a ride that my times on muddy trails were gona put me 30 minutes over the limit. So i was gona have to hustle the whole course, the distance didnt bother me but I've only a very limited time to re figure out muddy trail riding. Its been over 20 years since I rode a bike till a few months ago and iI have not been in the mud at all except for Thursday.
O.K. here it is the thing about mud, might be dirty heavy slippery mean but bottom line is it's so much fun.
Oh and my sons loaner bike, apparently old technology from what I was led to believe at the start line faired me well, the shifter up front quit working on the lil ring but I managed without it fine.
So back to my DNF, by choice, I just didn't care enough knowing I missed the cutoff and having to climb up the hill to get to where the last course marker was; sore from crashing, and just had enough. It was over.
Would I do it again, yes I would not hesitate, it was a super nice event in between two other events out here.
It taught me alot, I dont kniw why my neck is not nothing me after or now but I'm just gonna go with it.
Carpe Diem
On course the previous Thursday, which was far worse than race day.
All cleaned up
Bike on Thursday O-hagen turn off prior to the cloud burst.
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