RR: "12 Hours Of Temecula" Final Update/Merged Threads

Congrats to Trizz,Wayland,Carl,Neil,Allison,Willie for your performance throughout the series. That takes alot of commitment and determination to be that consistant. As for my race report , I ended up doing 6 laps. I faced a couple of challenges like a gnarly otb fall due to a rider stopping right in front of me on a fast dh section and a bunch of serious cramps. What can I say , Im hurtin for certain today. 12 hour kicked my butt

 

There will usually be a link posted on the 12 Hour site a few days afterwards. What's funny is that all the photogs were camped out on all the sketchy sections. :lol:

 

Thanks. I noticed that too. I guess everyone loves crash photos.

 

Nice job Steve. I saw you on the course in the aftermath of your crash in the afternoon. And you still went out turned a few more laps after getting beat up.:bang:

 

hey lkn2ryd/simon!?
i thought i saw you in the crowd. sorry we didnt have the chance to say hi!

 

m210 - hey there! I saw one of your riders, a tall guy with a tan troupe jersey. I was going to call you but I got caught up in the camp setup and registration lines. Hope your race rocked. Mine was enlightening:lol:. I am no SOLO racer. I tried it and "it" owned me. Cramps were the only item on the days menu. I'm gonna try to do the series in 09. You going to do Solvang?

Simon - Out

 

Having been one of those guys, I submit that the slow descending had more to do with having logged 10+ hours and upwards of 80 miles of riding by that point of the race. I chose to walk many of the downhills on laps 8 and 9 due to fatigue. It had little to do with bike choice or lighting.

 

Originally Posted by graves.z

Apparently dedicated xc riders on hardtails have trouble going fast down tech setions at night at speed. The only time the entire day I was happy to be on a 5inch travel 33 pound all mountain bike .

i was on a hardtail! i passed lots of guys on suspension bikes on dh... so....
bring what ya brung. its all racing and its all a good time!

 

here's a few pics from our support crew:
1: ben and roy (troupe 5 man team) line up at the start and i give them my motivational speech!

2: ben at the start. focused.

3: troupe's guest rider amanda at the start

4: i head out through the sand trap at the start

5: coming in on the berm at the end

6: dusk.

7: basecamp

8: done. just over a minute to spare...

 

Touché. But there were an awful lot of guys going slow in the morning too. I just had a blast bombing down stuff at night. Made the day worth it.

btw great job cranking out 9 laps. That takes some serious commitment and ability. Things I have neither of yet. :lol:

 

Maybe if you'd had a full suspension, you wouldn't have been so fatigued. Now you know I'm just foolin'. Good job, man.

 

great write ups!!

 

To each his own. You won't win an endurance event on the downhills. But you certainly can lose one.

I think lots of the walking in the mornings were folks on the course for the first time. Hell, I walked that long steep powder downhill that sent 2 people to the hospital.

 

I'm missing my red chair, I think there is writing on it, like chicks or something.

 

Well...i finally got around to documenting the pain and suffering!

Thanks again to all of the STR support out there! Sorry Pho'dUp for nearly running you off the course a couple of times...I was on a mission!

Jason...killer race bro!!

Here is a quote from the blog entry...for the full write-up click the link in the sig.

 

shudder pics

The crowd gathers -- man, this race has gotten huge! Way to go, Jason (and crew).



Wendy Skean and my girl, Betty.



Fellow SoCal Interscholastic MTB coach Matt Gunnell and his teammate Lee.



Jason makes the requisite annuncements to the gathered hordes (note the freakin' moon in the upper left... we'd see more of that later, for sure).



Liquid Cycling racer Max Foorman



Ron and Pua Sawicki ran pit for their young Keiki team, represented at the race by 15 year old Gene Capinas on the left (he and his grandmother flew out from Pennsylvania for the race!!!), and my 12 year old boy Willie on the right. It was really great to see two Team Mata Keiki riders roll (and they both got some bling at the end of the day!).



A quick snapshot of Team Mata Keiki before the race.



Me getting ready to have a verrrry bad day. My bro Patrick took this one of me, and the next four pictures as well.



Willie gets it going during the Parade Lap.



Gene rolls in from his first lap.



Patrick got one of Carlton showin' some skin (and not lookin' real happy about it)! Yeah baby!!!



Great pic of Willie rolling in! Go, Patrick!!!



On my third lap, I got off the bike a lot on the Dam Climb -- my legs were for shit and I knew this would be my last outing for the day. I took along the Nikon and took some shots of racers (one racer asked me along the way what the hell I was carrying in my pack -- body parts?!?!?! -- he laughed hard when I told him it was my big-ass camera).

Here's Trizz making the Dam Climb look easy atop his Voodoo.



Now, there's an MTB racing portrait!



Lukewiens going so fast up the Dam Climb he was blurry (couldn't possibly be photographer error!).



Racers climbing the damned Dam Climb.



Dam Climb silhouette.



17 up

Rockin' the Dam Climb with just a bottle of pink stuff.



More Dam Climbing.



Racers duking it out on the Dam Climb.



"Hi! I'm doin' the Dam Climb. Get the "F" outta my way!!!" (He didn't really say that -- I'm just using some dramatic license)



More pics below...

 

who shot this race I saw camera men everywhere including the option over the whoops where I tried to play up to the camera and take the rocky line down

Waiting for full results

 

an interesting bit of data...

i was on a three person team and was recruited a few days beforehand. my two teammates had been training for this for a few months and were pretty strong (compared to me at least) at climbing. at the top of the climb where they were giving split times, they were anywhere between 5 and 8 minutes faster than me to the top (somewhere around 21-23 minutes compared to my 28-29 minutes). even with those times i still managed anywhere from about 5 to 10 minutes faster per lap (unofficially).

kinda interesting on how the downhills can effect overall lap times.

 

Damn! Did you cut the course or something? :lol:

I don't think there's enough downhill sections to make up 10-18 minutes per lap. 21-23 minutes to the top is pretty damn fast. That should be good enough for sub-hour laps. What did they end up doing as far as lap times go?

 

More racers headed on up the Dam Climb.



Racer #162 making the Dam Climb look sorta... fun!



Night lights coming in to the finish!



Pua, Mario and Koa relaxing toward the end of the race.



Team Mata Keiki after the race (can ya tell?).



And that's it for me!

It was another great event. Can't wait for January. I will strive to do better -- maybe even get some training in between now and then, and try and get my boy to train with me, too! That should be excellent.

- shud