Ellen, Scott, and Mike are back home and resting. I really should be sleeping after only 1.5 hours sleep Saturday, but for some odd reason I'm up and semi-coherent. The rest of the BFR crew got in a comfy stay at the Wilkesboro hotel room.
Great times again, despite the monsoon Friday night. We got the race compound set up literally next to the start line around 4pm Friday. Rains rolled in around 7pm and left water standing in the campground and popups demolished, but our stuff held out.
Race day saw us get stuff laid out and ready to roll, and the course was actually decent by go time--a little gooey in places to make for painful climbing through peanut-butter mud, a little slick on some of the bermed corners, but definitely rideable. Biggest pleasant surprise to me was that the mud really only stayed at trail level and did not kick up into brakes or drivetrain, so parts didn't get trashed.
Record number of racers, and the increased fields were mostly 5-person teams, so there were always fast people working their way around the course. Danny and Jay on one duo team, Mike and Scott on another duo team, Shawn solo, and Danielle, Ellen, and Marcus on a 3-person team.
Not too much bike carnage: multiple tire changes searching for the optimum tread/pressure, some broken saddles and spokes, and lots of literal pains in the butts of our racers' tails.
We delivered in spades: double-digit laps including everyone on the Angel team doing night laps for Marcus and the Angels, a win for Mike and the author as duo team Off Constantly, second for Jay and Danny in duo, and a second for Shawn.
Great job, teammates! I had a blast and was so glad to spend the weekend with you.
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