Re: 24 hours of unicycling
Yes lets talk it through over a beer it will be a good one to plan for. And
when we have finished planning we can have another beer and set the world to
right… again. 
It was interesting looking at the long pre-ride video. It looks positively
pleasant compared with red bull, but I guess they showed all the down hill
stuff not the slog up hill that would have been boring on the video. What
is interesting is that I am certain that I have ridden in that area in 1986
(on a bike) it looks so familiar, I must get my old notes out and check.
Red Bull is within a forest/park and some of the single track is on the
border of what can be done with a Coker off road even when not tired. I
have taco’d my wheel several times but had it spring back into place trying
to do some of the stuff. Most of us just accept that some stuff is just too
hard and jump off and run the mad sections, but saying that… so do the
bikes! sometimes they dismount right in front of you when you were going to
ride it, especially on the first lap where I am placed in the first 10% due
to a good run and then have everyone pushing past.
As for what we are like after 4 laps… we are certainly not sturdy, we are
knackered! our camp exhibits lots of sitting or flumped people. We found
last year that diet was a major factor in our performance, as soon as rider
got in we fed them with a big recovery drink and often a big bowl of pasta.
It does wonders! and not red bull, keep that for the drive home. That is
one of the things that I found really hard was having to get in a van and
then drive. I have a 5 hour drive after the event and last year had to stop
3 or 4 times just to get some sleep. Although this year Claire is coming
with me so hopefully I will persuade her to drive the Van.
You certainly get some respect for doing it on a unicycle. Almost everyone
is polite when passing and very encouraging.
I agree with Alan, if it rains we are in trouble: the course if you scored
it out of 10 for technical ability would be a 4 but if it rains it would
jump to an 8. That would really hurt.
Roger
The UK’s Unicycle Source
----- Original Message -----
From: “Nathan Hoover” <nathan@movaris.com>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.unicycling
To: <rsu@unicycling.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: 24 hours of unicycling
> Roger, we were all talking about the possibility of picking one 24 hour
race
> somewhere in the world in 2003 and having as many unicycle teams as
> possible. For us it would be exotic and fun to come to England, and I’m
sure
> vice versa for you in California. Or we could meet in the middle and do
one
> of the huge ones in Ontario Canada. I talked to people who have done the
> other 24 hours of Adrenalin courses and it sounds like the Laguna Seca
event
> is the only one around here that’s Cokerable. The others are much more
> technical which would suck at night, or at least it would be hard to go
> fast. Carl also says that the Ontario ones are more technical. Is it
> possible for you guys to Coker all through the night at Red Bull? Let’s
> discuss over beers at Snoqualamie!
>
> Joe, you are an animal! It was so impressive watching the solo bikers
> here…when people see you doing that on unicycle they’ll just die. Do you
> get a special “Solo Rider” number badge at Red Bull so riders can tell
that
> you’re not only crazy once for entering, twice for unicycling, but three
> times for unicycling solo? Best of luck to you.
>
> Everyone else in England doing Red Bull, you’re very studly doing it in
> regular 5 person teams. Personally I really liked having the bigger team
as
> a 3rd lap would’ve been really tough and I don’t want to think about a
4th.
>
> I posted about the videos last night but again it seems to be lost. So try
> this link to get to all 3 videos - al pretty good:
> http://www.geocities.com/mfpaul/laguna_seca_2002/laguna_seca_2002.html or
> http://tinyurl.com/767
>
> Have fun,
>
> Nathan
>
> “Roger Davies” <Roger.Davies@octacon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1022143067.9028.rsu@unicycling.org…
> > Well done guys! fun isn’t it.
> > I could not get the video link to work? not sure now who put that up
but
> > just get a dud link.
> > It is really interesting comparing your event and results with ours in
> > Redbull 24 hour. I think we did similar, because Red Bull is twice as
big
> > so we have more chance to beat teams and we also do not have corporate
> > category, the largest teams were 5 people, although most were 4 and of
> > course the nutters doing solo. Great photos, from what I can see your
> > ground looks better than ours but you had more climb, I think I would
have
> > preferred yours than our rough soggy field as it is so sapping of energy
> > especially on your 3rd or 4th lap!
> > We do ours race on the 22nd June and supposedly we are all training
hard.
> I
> > have not started my running training but should soon. The interesting
> > person to watch this years is Joe who is doing it in the Solo category!
> > Do you guys want to join us next year so we could get 3 or 4 teams? or
> > should we go and join you lot? Wish the world was a little smaller!
> >
> > Roger
>
>
>
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