Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Churn and Burn 12 Hour Mountain Bike Race
On Saturday 25 July 2005 I rode in a 12 hour mountain bike race (at Stewart Buffer Zone (Newburgh, NY) with 4 other friends: Chris, Jason, John and Ryan. Weather was sunny and warm in the mid-high 80's, humidity fairly low.
End result: we all did 8 laps (of 7.75 miles per lap), except for Jason who did 9.
Official race results are here: http://genesisadventures.com/Stewart%2012%20Hour%20Results.pdf
Shockingly we were not DFL but we didn't exactly have a shot for the podium either... the winner did 15 laps, and as I predicted... almost doubled our lap count. However, who cares! This race kicked arse... tons of fun!
Ryan, took some awesome shots of us and some of the other riders here:
Johnny "take a pipe" K.
Always a laugh, this is Round Eye Chris
Super Jay
Mergs on the first of 4 steep climbs that haunted us in laps 6, 7 and 8.
"Is that camera on?"
This bridge was way dodgier than it looks!
Take a pipe...
13 laps
Nice form
Very Kingdom Trails-like... we hit this all day.
This picture says it all...
Group shot after the race...
Headin' home... NYS Thruway southbound.Photo Credits: http://www.geocities.com/ryganley
