Carrie sent me this email -
Shelly and I both had a GREAT time at the 12T race! We both raced solo. The heat got to me early on and I ended up taking a break in the afternoon before riding 2 night laps. Shelly had a great race and charged hard all day and into the night. We both finished doing 5 laps and agreed we could have done one more had the time allowed. 50 miles and 8,000 feet of climbing ain't to shabby for the amount of time we train! We'll be doing the race again in January with a goal of 6 or 7 laps.
This course was a BLAST! One of the races where you don't feel like you are climbing the whole time...lots of fast, fun single track on ridges and rims... spectacular views, great folks out on the course. At times the wind blew hard from behind, then the side, then as a headwind... crazy. The trails got softer as the day went on in some sections making for sandy, loose conditions. We watched some spectacular endos and saw the trail eat a lot of tires and tubes. The one big injury (the one they closed the trail for) was a guy who went off the trail and got a manzanita branch thru the arm. Ouch. From the top of a ridge we saw the medics leaving code 3 with him in the back. I think that was the only serious injury... but lots of scrapes and bruises.
On my last night lap about 8pm Tony went FLYING by me up a steep climb and I didn't realize it was him until he had passed me and I yelled out to him. He was charging hard and I couldn't believe he was still going so fast at that time of the day. We only saw Will once in the staging area as he was waiting to head out.
We took our kids back out on the trail the next morning (we camped all weekend) and they had a blast riding the single track and seeing where their Mom's raced! FUN venue and great atmosphere!
That's our update! See ya soon!
Blue skies, Carrie
PS: NiteRider guy gave me a charger!
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