Monday, July 16, 2007

the hundie-K

A few more miles in the books now, and I'm enjoying my recovery day at the computer chair. Sooo, peeps did show up after all. How 'bout that? I think we had 60-some starters for the 100K. Not as many as the 100 for Maximus, but way better than the pre-reg site looked.

I had a good race. No flats, no mechanicals, no funny belly. I had one silly front wheel wash on Abby that had me laughing like, WTF was that....? I also took a couple of idiot lines on 3-Mile as if I'd never ridden that trail before. I hope Churtle didn't see me dab those...

Highlights
  • smilin' for the action sports photogs Tomi and Jake
  • Miller High Life courtesy of Tomi and Jake
  • seeing Lee and Travis hunting for carnage at some of the more interesting sections
  • some of the logs on Yellow Ridge
  • Methodist Hill, even the climb out wasn't as sucky as I expected
  • Canada Hollow, yummmy stuff here
  • Grave Ridge at 50-miles in (maybe this should be a low-light?)
  • riding with buddy Albert most of the day. he had more issues than I, otherwise, I'd have been solo much of the day
  • riding w/ Cheryl, and then watching Michele and Cheryl duking it out for miles. I'm not sure where exactly I passed Michele for the last time, but she sure looked broken. Don't mess with Le Turtle out there...
Lowlights
  • some of the logs on Yellow Ridge
  • every inch of trail after Grave Ridge until crossing 233 again. that stuff really messed with my finishing mood

3 comments:

Tomi said...

funny how some of those trails are only ever ridden on race day.....

Anonymous said...

Well done! I hope the beer was cold after a hot day.
Race route up Dug Hill rd, isn't that logged out? Was over there a few weeks ago and couldn't find way to top except via middle ridge rd.

And coming down Methodist, I crossed over powerline to left and followed a narrow track into trees and found nice trail down into big switchback on Griers Hollow Rd, seemed abandoned.

Congrats on 100k.
treeskier

Anonymous said...

I guess there's no doubt about you doing all three of these aberrations. That's healty, but git some rest old timer.. the Gauley is calling.