Iron Hill Enduro
Newark, DE
May 31st, 2009
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A few Weeks ago I Packed up the car to Head down to Newark Delware for the Iron Hill Enduro. Well the forecast was for Sun all Day but Iron Hill managed to get the only bit of rain on the east coast for 2 hours before the race which turned the course to peanut butter.
I was riding very poorly for the first two laps until things spread out a bit. It was very slipery and the Maxxis Crossmarxs weren't hanging on very well on the off camber descents and turns.
Acura matt missed the start by three minutes and manged to catch me. We hit the next climb and he was gone. I had no desire to step it up at that point.
Things started to dry out a bit and I got my mojo back and was able to catch matt. we road together for a few laps...this was fun, we each took turns in the front and it was nice to bust some balls while riding. 3 hours in and the Sport Crowd was on the course. We passed when needed.
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We got to a real technical climb that most people were not cleaning. I rolled through it and i think Matt got hung up and stuck behind some of the sport riders so I decided it was time to end our social event and I attacked. In an effort to not get stuck behind some of the Fat kids on the decent i kept putting the hammer down to get around the Sport riders, but the downhill never came, but there where more Fat Kids, so i Kept pedaling hard. I was a bit torched, but the downhill finally came and I had to recover - I was really flying - I hit another climb, then another descent.....then it all ended very abruptly with a 15 MPH direct hit on a tree. I was surprised that the impact did not hurt, but both of my legs locked up completely. I had never experienced that before, there was nothing i could do. i couldn't move either leg.
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I managed to get back on the bike, but i was pretty much done - Matt finally rolled up on me and I decided that I wasn't going out for the next lap. I lost my timing chip and they did not give us number plates so there were no results for me but I didnt really care nor did I want to sit down with the promoter and piece things together, but i think I finished an unofficial 10th, but would have easily finished with Matt around 7th or 8th had I not pulled my shenanigans. It was still fun, and good training. The day ended with a Pig iron Porter out of the Cask at the Iron Hill Brewery.
Pete
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