the knob – day two
there was much inner tube carnage on race day. the support shop actually ran out of tubes because so many people were flatting out. kaloz got the vary last one. my first lap i flatted out twice in about 10 minutes and had a slow leak the second half. thanks to glass and thorns i dropped from the middle of the pack to about 20 minutes behind and gave myself heat stroke trying to catch up on the dry hot climbing part on the back of the lap (vomited AND passed out!) by the time i got in my first lap took about an hour 50. i damn near dropped out and took a dnf(they are still showing the dnf on the results), but i sat down for ten minutes, got some goo and some water and when i wasnt dizzy anymore i went out on my second lap. i’m glad i didnt bitch out because i rocked the second lap in about 45 minutes. which would have put me in the top half of the sport class if my first lap hadnt been a total clusterfuck. kaloz had to walk about 1.5 miles back to the starting line to get a new tube on his first lap with predictable results and then broke his thumb on the over/under chute that took mike out on day one. mike had a pretty uneventful run on race day (thankfully since he almost sat out with the broken finger) and turned in about a 2 hour time.
hopefully next time we dont have such a disaster on our hands (literally). even so it was a great weekend and we can not wait till the next race at the knob on may 24th.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:32 am
It was a great weekend Even thou i broke my finger. They have the results posted on the camba site. Will try to have pics and results up soon.