Well we are doing it! I have done 1 lap and my back hurts, knees and am a
little tired. Everyone but alan has been on the ride (Claire and Sarah are
out now). Most people are smiling, Rocket is grimising because he has
pulled a muscle or something. Times are between 1h3m (me) and 1h 45 (not
sure but that figure has been banded about). Paul is the next fastest so
far at 1h 15. Generally we are all doing well both teams are beating 2
mountain bike teams. I got pushed off on the first bend after a reasonable
run (they shortened the run this year!) which annoyed me (grumble, grumble,
grumble). I have several sores for being hit by trees. All fun.
Joe Marshall! is mad
He is still smiling and is 40 mins into his 4th lap. He took a 25min break
after the second lap to eat but is doing between 1h 25 and 1h 45 (he fell
and winded him self on that lap).
Got some photos but my phone wont allow me to upload them so will upload as
soon as I get home.
> Keep on going guys, what did you all decide on riding?
Mostly Cokers. I did 2 laps on the 29er (I think Leo, Joe M. and sarah
all did 1 on a 29er) and found it was about
the same speed as the Coker overall. I rode more and pushed
less with the 29er though.
93 17 24:31:13 MBR
94 17 25:12:55 Unicycle.com Factory Team
95 15 24:01:50 Norfolk N Good
96 14 24:03:09 BN3 SRAM World Cup DH Team
97 11 25:11:28 Dynamo Bull
98 10 24:33:16 Unicycle.com Workshop Team
The factory team beat 3 bike teams in our (mixed) category see above, 3 sport mens teams and one sport women.
Joe Marshall did well in solo going out again after being advised to stop with bruised/cracked ribs…but I’m sure he’ll tell us of his experiences…
> Keep on going guys, what did you all decide on riding?
I took the coker out for my first lap, after much humming hawing about
which to use. Leo had come in from his lap saying, take the coker ( he
had been spinning like crazy on his 29er) , so I did. OK time, in fact a
great lap, I really enjoyed it, rode more than I expected to and had a
blast, 1hr.38 on the clock .
Lap 2. 3am. I took the coker again, BIG mistake. i’m not good in the dark
and i was really slow, couldn’t ride as much as in the light, suffererd
badly from lack of fuel and sleep. took a monterously long time,well over
2 hours.
Lap 3. start time 1.30pm, this was to be our teams final lap, hoping to
drag us one place up the rankng by getting more laps than the MBR team. I
took the 29er out, I was suffering quite badly from lack of sleep and too
much carbo gunk. Managed to ride pretty much all I had on the coker and a
whole bunch more in the single track that i couldn’t coker. Time 1hr
40. So no real time difference for me between the two wheel sizes in day
light.
I was the last competitor to cross the finish line! It had been close as
I caught up with a buch of slow riders at the top of the final
assent. However having free-wheels they beat me on the final decent to the
finish line. It was nice to have the last two decents to myself tho, no
overtaking two wheelers shout RIGHT, or RIDER at me before zipping past a
hairs breadth away from my pedal. I could really enjoy the ride bouncing
over the roots and picking my line entirely selfishly.
sarah
Unicon 11 ~ Washington USA.~ July 25 - Aug 2 2002
The world unicycle convention and championships. http://www.nwcue.org
