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.

j.