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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

2009 Midget AR Adversity Excercise

Raced the 2009 Midget AR with John McInnes this past weekend. It started well for us with a lead after the short opening trek, paddle and run back to the TA. Then, about 1/4 mile out of the TA John's front tire exploded.

Not the tube, the tire. Right through the sidewall. KaBLAM!

I have to say that it's the first time I've seen a little bit of fear in John as we were at speed (around 20 mph) and he had to fight it a bit to get control back.

To make a long story short after 45 minutes of trying to find a new tire (including an aborted trip to the rumored local Meijer) we finally got one thanks to race director Matt VanHoosier. Even after the tire was fixed I forgot to put my helmet on as we left the TA and had to loop back. (Coincidentally from about the same place John blew his tire. We were starting to think we'd just be doing laps between that point and the TA all day.)

We rode hard for the rest of the race, made (almost) no mistakes and managed to catch all but
one team for a first place finish in the 2 person coed. (Hard to compare 2 person and 3 person times due to a slight variation in courses at the start of the race.)

It was my first time racing with John and it went really well. We race together WAY better than we do time math together...

Oh, and the coolest part of all? We got yard gnomes as trophies.

Sweet...

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