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Originally Posted by habernac
cral12, how was the mudfest at the 24 hour this weekend?
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Thanks for asking!
The conditions were pure insanity! They're saying worst conditions of this event in history (20 years). 2008 was the previous worse apparently. Many described half the terrain as 4-6 inches of blended peanut butter...lol...especially over night for my first ever night ride!! Slightly better conditions in the morning.
I have to say probably the most physically draining thing I've ever done. I think I got 5 minutes of sleep total, which didn't help. Pretty mentally draining as well with the weather and conditions, but our team was stoked that we persevered.
We actually did not do it for the results (just for the challenge, something to accomplish together), but we got home and pleasantly surprised we finished in 6th place in our category (4-person team). We were tied for same # of laps as 4th & 5th place, but last lap clocked in later. We could have had 1 more lap, but after each of us did night lap, we paused because of treacherous conditions and waited 2 hrs til 6AM for next guy to go out again.
[think our Captain is signing up for another 24 hour event today for us...haha]
I haven't posted many picks yet (more to come), but a couple on Instagram if anyone interested:
https://www.instagram.com/kryzralf/