Sunday, July 3, 2011

2011 - Its on like DonkeyKong

after a year Hiatus to have our Santiago- I'm back in the saddle for the 2011 race. the race has been pumped up to August 12-13th this year. Also last year they changed the start time from Friday at 5pm to Saturday morning at 10 am, and they added a handful of categories.

2011 has been the wettest year in my memory- GREAT looking Grass and garden but very little MTB miles. Luckily for me I did get my Salsa Pistola ROAD machine put together this Spring so I've been pounding on the road miles. I also played in about 15 soccer games in two months so that has helped the fitness levels.

2011 the goal is to Ride the 8 hour race and be on the bike the entire 8 hours.....is it possible- oh yeah. the first race i ever did took me about 6.5 hours. it was roughly a 60 mile trek through Milaca in about 2001 or so.