Hardcore 24

So it has come and gone, too quickly some might say. The short end of it, the race got canceled at 8:58pm saturday night in response to an incident on the race course that took the life of another racer. There was no racer rage, noone got chopped for a line, no dangerouse performace inhancing drugs to be found, just another average guy like the rest of us, challenging his limits. Only thing was that he had a medical condition that made his limits much greater than the rest of ours, he faced his limits and unfortuanlly lost, or beat them as he was out there racing his bike having a whole blast of a time. I send condolences out to his family and Park Ave. Bike who was putting the event on, where he was a manager.

I wanted to do a race recap, not what I feel like writting tonight, more on that later, sometimes your personal goals and achievments have to be put on hold to think of others.

The one high point I want to share, last part of the lap, last lap, climbed to the top of the climb with a 12 year old kid, doing his first night lap, of his second 24 hour race ever, on a 29er. Plus the fact that he schooled me on the fire road decent.

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Getting it all ready

Been taking it really easy on the bike this week. Just commuting from Kris's house into town and my normal riding around town on the MTB to get the fit all dialed in.

Spent the evening getting the final things together, grocery getting, repacking the clothes. Eating the pre-race dinner, beans and franks and scotch. What a way to build some fat stores.

Lets get this all going!!!

Its Comnig

It's on. After the past 6 months of training, countless hours geeking out and deciding on gear, bikes and food, I get to test the waters this weekend with The Hardcore 24. Weather looks great, resting hard, but the legs feel the strongest ever, hell even riding a gear hardtail with a suspension fork, thanks George at bike29.com.

It is great when you are feeling it going into a race, knowing that you are prepared and looking to throw down. There is the looming goal of 200+ miles, did just under 150 in Georgia this fall on a hard ass course and a single speed.

We shall see, thanks to all that are helping, Kris, bikeman.com