...to be family friendly it was 24 hours of fun for kids of all ages! HA that's a lie!! No it really was a nice weekend, excellent weather, great location, good food and lots of great people. But it was SO hard on the bodies! Heck, I'm exhausted and I didn't race! The guys are like zombies today, well atleast Keith was and I'm sure the other guys were as well. Not much sleep. You can read on Keith's blog about the race and it's happenings.
Our campsite was at a great site. We were facing the ski hill and when they came down one section it had a ton of switchbacks. I don't know how many, but I believe it was close to a mile, which was nice we could see them for so long! We could sit under our canopies and cheer them on. Or run out in the fields to get pics and cheer. At night we put glow sticks on the guys so we could tell our teammates and be ready to make the switch. Good idea I had!! I also put a bunch of glow sticks all over our canopy. Like I said, not much sleeping. The boys went to bed around 9 and were up 6ish. I finally hit the sack around 1:30 when Keith was on the course and was up at 7am. It seems like alot of sleep, but I wasn't asleep the whole time. And the guys didn't get much at all!!
Oh the food was good. Spaghetti didn't go as well as I hoped, I premade it all so it was a bit dry. But I had lots of other foods to keep them going and the guys brought their own special treats too.
The pics above are Keith, Tom, Carson and Chris. This was Carson's first MTB race and 1st time ever racing at night, he did great! I think he came away with the most cuts and such, but that's ok. Keith wasn't too bashed up at all, just muddy and smelly. But they all were that!
At night it cooled down quite a bit, which was okay, but it got SO dewy! Everything was soaking wet!! It might as well have rained!
They are talking about doing it again next year, it was a great team, well matched up! Oh the results if you don't want to read Keith's blog. We finished 4th place in the team 24 hour category. Just shy of 3rd place :( We were hoping for 3rd so we'd get prize money...ah next year!
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