http://assets.ngin.com/attachments/document/0011/3362/Sandwich_Results.pdfThe results are linked above. I won't racap my race other than to say that I was broken by the end of lap 7. Instead I will just tell a few quick stories about the day.
I was the first one to pass the bacon stop and at that time it was one guy leaning against a surly big dummy. Every lap after that the set up became better and better and the crowd got bigger and bigger. It was like a midlap party that cheered everyone up every time they went by. It was definately a highlight of the day and mountain bike racing is missing that kind of element on a regular basis.
The singlespeeders were going through chains. I think I counted 7 broken chains. Yet they kept on turing over laps.
One guy rode the big boulder to skinny every single lap and he completed the race.
One guy skipped the big log pile in the field on the first lap and instead wiped out on the slick grass going around it.
Bikes were broken left and right, but no body parts were seriously injured and that's always a good thing.
Looking at the lap times you could tell the course started out a little wet and dried out over the next 3 laps. People got faster through lap 5 in some cases.
Cumulatively we probably burned 50,000 calories out there.
One of the crazy guys on a cyclocross bike finished all 7 laps. That is one tough dude.
Let me know any other good stories from the day as I am sure I missed some great stuff.
We will be back next year. Probably the same name, maybe a different format (teams).
