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<blockquote data-quote="Travace" data-source="post: 134791" data-attributes="member: 111"><p>so on to after the video. sorry but not many pics of the rest of the race but about a mile after the video stops i came to the first traffic jam. there was a left and a decent sized hill climb that ws rocky and gnarly towards the top. it had bikes lined down the entire thing and almost everyone was walking the bikes up it. litterally tire to tire with a occasional dude flying by or getting stuck spinning the back tire. i attempted to get up and made it past some dude to my right but about half way my bike boils over. so i get as far to the side as i can kill the bike and find some shade under a tree and just enjoyed the show for a min. It didnt take long for the crowd to clear and so i jump on the bike and barely but my magic button gets the bike started on the hill and i make it up.</p><p> </p><p>Now im thinking just take it easy and push on. at this point the riders were pretty spread out and i didnt have any issues even passed a group of 3 riders. I cant remember the mileage but next was a road section. not long at all only seemed like a mile or so to me and i hit a speed of 70 something before getting back on dirt.</p><p> </p><p>This is where it got hard. Not long after that i entered what they call Sutro Canyon. it starts getting gnarly and really fast. I was doing good tho. maybe made it in a 1/4 of a mile in rocky bolder hopping madness, passing the carnage untill <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/crash.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":crash:" title="Crash :crash:" data-shortname=":crash:" />. i was so gassed i figure ok break time. i look at the bike and the right lever is broke and my bash gaurd is laying on the ground. I look around and there is photographers around and medics are stopping to check on me i give em all the <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/thumb.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumb:" title="Thumb :thumb:" data-shortname=":thumb:" /> and they go on. So i get out my zip ties and fix my bashguard and not long later i hear some guy in the crowd who was helping some guys who couldnt get up this gnarly rock climb you had to do yell "WHOOOOOOO #402 YOU GOT THIS ITS YOUR TURN" it motivated me so i got on... battery dead... it kicks over fairly fast tho <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/rocker.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rocker:" title="Rocker :rocker:" data-shortname=":rocker:" /> so BRRAAAAP up the rock i go hearing them all cheer me on <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/rocker.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rocker:" title="Rocker :rocker:" data-shortname=":rocker:" /></p><p> </p><p>Then it really starts to get hard for me. the best way to explain the rest of this section is 3 miles of a trail that someone took a bunch of bowling ball sized rocks and dumped em there. There was kind of a line if you want to call it that <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="lol :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> but not really and sooner or later there was always someone crashed in that line causing me to go out of it into the more gnarly stuff and thats when i dumped the bike. i was so winded at this point. i took a little breather and started trying to get my bike started again. this time it was not so easy but i got it going again. now repeat that 2 more times within 100 yards <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/cry.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":cry:" title="Cry :cry:" data-shortname=":cry:" /> so i post up and find a tree. i could feel my core overheating and i was starting to <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/puke.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":puke:" title="Puke :puke:" data-shortname=":puke:" /> so i just releaxed... took off my jersey and got a sleeve wet and wrapped it around my neck to cool off my main arterys. it worked cause not long i was feeling better so im trying to get the bike started. This is when i notice the first pro go by... which means im being lapped. no biggie it was bound to happen. I talked to a few guys while i was here and no one was having fun. Even some of of the pro's were struggling. one pro went down right next to me and some douche nugget behind him starts yelling at him.... get that HONDUUUURR out the way... the pro was yelling shut the fuck up <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="lol :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> i thought they were gonna fight for a second. so now about a hour ... hour and a half goes by with me in this one 4 mile section and i still have proll2 and a half to go still and my bike wont start. this is when i see the same blue plate #20 go by my again... this means the pros are on lap 3 and lapped me 2 times <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/cry.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":cry:" title="Cry :cry:" data-shortname=":cry:" />.. then a medic fell next to me and was resting when another guy came and fell and couldnt get his bike started as well. so the medic helped him get the bike way out the way so he could turn around. I told him hey i might need help as well my bike wont start. he was not looking happy about the size of my bike but was ready to do work anyway. I told him first i want to try kicking ONE MORE time so keep your fingers crossed.</p><p> </p><p>Kick one.... Nothing</p><p> </p><p>Kick two.... Nothing</p><p> </p><p>Kick three.... BRAAAAAAAAP</p><p> </p><p>i hear him and the other guys around me yell WHOOOOOOOOO and the medic says " PICK A LINE AND GOOOOOOO"</p><p> </p><p>i did exactly that. i think i was so scared that my bike wouldnt start and i wouldnt finish that i rode quite well. far from smooth feeling but i didnt go down anymore <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/rocker.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rocker:" title="Rocker :rocker:" data-shortname=":rocker:" /> After the Sutro peak it was the funnest part of the course. some fun ST type stuff on the side of a hill and one more small road section before winding back into town. Would have been funner if i wasnt already dead tired. i got passed by a lot of people in the last 13 miles or so <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="lol :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> but as soon as i could see Virgina City again it was like a surge of energy. Especially when i got close to town and you could hear the crowds cheering ya on. When i got to the redbull arch my family is standing right there at the finish <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/rocker.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rocker:" title="Rocker :rocker:" data-shortname=":rocker:" /> so i head into the pits and PBK and his brother had made friends with someone who let us put our gas there... it was far from needed but good to have them there anyway.</p><p> </p><p><img src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/904879_412171438881804_1098966447_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p>So i didnt go out again which gave me a DNF for my class ... which i had no buisness in anyway but i did place for overall and got my pin...</p><p><img src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/476345_10151557206137480_2068060839_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p>384 Travis Moreno Poway, CA Over 30 EXP 402 KTM 1 02:48:46</p><p>which means i finished 18 positions better then my start. <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/rocker.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rocker:" title="Rocker :rocker:" data-shortname=":rocker:" /></p><p> </p><p>So lets rewind to several months back. i asked myself "would you like racing?" and could not answer that question because i have never done it. Now i have and now i can answer.....</p><p> </p><p>YES!!!!! it was a blast and there will be more of it in my life and plan on training harder and returning next year with more experience and in better shape.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travace, post: 134791, member: 111"] so on to after the video. sorry but not many pics of the rest of the race but about a mile after the video stops i came to the first traffic jam. there was a left and a decent sized hill climb that ws rocky and gnarly towards the top. it had bikes lined down the entire thing and almost everyone was walking the bikes up it. litterally tire to tire with a occasional dude flying by or getting stuck spinning the back tire. i attempted to get up and made it past some dude to my right but about half way my bike boils over. so i get as far to the side as i can kill the bike and find some shade under a tree and just enjoyed the show for a min. It didnt take long for the crowd to clear and so i jump on the bike and barely but my magic button gets the bike started on the hill and i make it up. Now im thinking just take it easy and push on. at this point the riders were pretty spread out and i didnt have any issues even passed a group of 3 riders. I cant remember the mileage but next was a road section. not long at all only seemed like a mile or so to me and i hit a speed of 70 something before getting back on dirt. This is where it got hard. Not long after that i entered what they call Sutro Canyon. it starts getting gnarly and really fast. I was doing good tho. maybe made it in a 1/4 of a mile in rocky bolder hopping madness, passing the carnage untill :crash:. i was so gassed i figure ok break time. i look at the bike and the right lever is broke and my bash gaurd is laying on the ground. I look around and there is photographers around and medics are stopping to check on me i give em all the :thumb: and they go on. So i get out my zip ties and fix my bashguard and not long later i hear some guy in the crowd who was helping some guys who couldnt get up this gnarly rock climb you had to do yell "WHOOOOOOO #402 YOU GOT THIS ITS YOUR TURN" it motivated me so i got on... battery dead... it kicks over fairly fast tho :rocker: so BRRAAAAP up the rock i go hearing them all cheer me on :rocker: Then it really starts to get hard for me. the best way to explain the rest of this section is 3 miles of a trail that someone took a bunch of bowling ball sized rocks and dumped em there. There was kind of a line if you want to call it that :lol: but not really and sooner or later there was always someone crashed in that line causing me to go out of it into the more gnarly stuff and thats when i dumped the bike. i was so winded at this point. i took a little breather and started trying to get my bike started again. this time it was not so easy but i got it going again. now repeat that 2 more times within 100 yards :cry: so i post up and find a tree. i could feel my core overheating and i was starting to :puke: so i just releaxed... took off my jersey and got a sleeve wet and wrapped it around my neck to cool off my main arterys. it worked cause not long i was feeling better so im trying to get the bike started. This is when i notice the first pro go by... which means im being lapped. no biggie it was bound to happen. I talked to a few guys while i was here and no one was having fun. Even some of of the pro's were struggling. one pro went down right next to me and some douche nugget behind him starts yelling at him.... get that HONDUUUURR out the way... the pro was yelling shut the fuck up :lol: i thought they were gonna fight for a second. so now about a hour ... hour and a half goes by with me in this one 4 mile section and i still have proll2 and a half to go still and my bike wont start. this is when i see the same blue plate #20 go by my again... this means the pros are on lap 3 and lapped me 2 times :cry:.. then a medic fell next to me and was resting when another guy came and fell and couldnt get his bike started as well. so the medic helped him get the bike way out the way so he could turn around. I told him hey i might need help as well my bike wont start. he was not looking happy about the size of my bike but was ready to do work anyway. I told him first i want to try kicking ONE MORE time so keep your fingers crossed. Kick one.... Nothing Kick two.... Nothing Kick three.... BRAAAAAAAAP i hear him and the other guys around me yell WHOOOOOOOOO and the medic says " PICK A LINE AND GOOOOOOO" i did exactly that. i think i was so scared that my bike wouldnt start and i wouldnt finish that i rode quite well. far from smooth feeling but i didnt go down anymore :rocker: After the Sutro peak it was the funnest part of the course. some fun ST type stuff on the side of a hill and one more small road section before winding back into town. Would have been funner if i wasnt already dead tired. i got passed by a lot of people in the last 13 miles or so :lol: but as soon as i could see Virgina City again it was like a surge of energy. Especially when i got close to town and you could hear the crowds cheering ya on. When i got to the redbull arch my family is standing right there at the finish :rocker: so i head into the pits and PBK and his brother had made friends with someone who let us put our gas there... it was far from needed but good to have them there anyway. [IMG]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/904879_412171438881804_1098966447_o.jpg[/IMG] So i didnt go out again which gave me a DNF for my class ... which i had no buisness in anyway but i did place for overall and got my pin... [IMG]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/476345_10151557206137480_2068060839_o.jpg[/IMG] 384 Travis Moreno Poway, CA Over 30 EXP 402 KTM 1 02:48:46 which means i finished 18 positions better then my start. :rocker: So lets rewind to several months back. i asked myself "would you like racing?" and could not answer that question because i have never done it. Now i have and now i can answer..... YES!!!!! it was a blast and there will be more of it in my life and plan on training harder and returning next year with more experience and in better shape. [/QUOTE]
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