24 Hours of DINO

We won despite my best efforts to derail our train. Two laps DNF'd for me.

1st place in the Mens' Open 4-man 24 hour race, with Austin, Tony, and Dave. My first two laps were ~57min in the daylight, fast and smooth. 3rd lap was 1:05 at night, and then things came a bit unraveled with the 4th lap around 3am. Started fine, then cut a tire on a rock pretty early on. 'Fixed' it, but only had one CO2 cartridge, so fixed meant 8psi. Nursed it through a lap without a pinch flat, squirming through turns the whole way. 5th lap was great, around 7am. The light, plus air in the rear tire, made for a much improved lap of 1:00. Lots of fun, but I am exhausted...

Overall, Austin, Tom P, Dave, and I worked great as a team. With 3 different flats we went from a significant positive time gap at sunset to a defect by sunrise. With some great efforts we pulled back time and took overall 1st on the last lap. Also, Jason/Tom M and Cato/Rob had very solid results on their equally tough 12hr team. Good work guys.

Perfect weather, perfect company, perfect weekend! A lot of fun on a real fun trail... Cato and I got 11 laps in despite what the results say! Somehow the computer missed one of Cato's laps and makes it look like the 1st place team beat us by 2 laps. Not the case. Oh well, get em' next time!

Oh yeah, New Belgium in Indiana!

12-Hour Two Man Class. T Morris was my teammate. First experience at this type event. We put up a good fight clocking 4 laps apiece. We were loosing time to the 3rd place team so did not do a9th team lap. I did the last lap completely in the dark, first night mountain bile racing experience. It was the most fun lap of the race and my time was only a few minutes slower than previous lap. Good time had by all.

The Clydesdales came in 4th for the 12 hr 2 man team. Great Race/ Great Trail. Congrats to Cato and Rob rocked it in second place.