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I'm doing the 25, figured since my company would pick up the registration what the heck.

It's looks like a lot of up and down, a coworkers strava track said almost 3500 feet and 27 miles. I'm going to get worked!

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the rider formally known as craptasticycler
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I did this event last year, there were a couple brutal climbs. Had planned to do it this year, but did not for various reasons...

I had a good day out there.

I stopped by Poway Bicycle the night before just to buy some GU and a new pair of sunglasses, and walked out with a loaner / demo Niner RKT 9 RDO to ride in the race.

My bike is an aluminum '08 Trance X2; 26" 3x9. The RKT is a full out XC race bike, 29", full carbon, 1x11. I figured with all the climbing dropping 5lbs of bike weight and having a more efficient climber would make the day less painful. The RKT is an awesome XC race bike!!!!

The course is definitely hilly!!!! There's a good mile to mile and a half grinder in the middle, and a couple of short stand up and mash the pedals to try and make it to the top climbs. A bunch of the DH sections have big sand pits at the bottom, which is a little sketchy seeing as how I was hitting like 36mph here and there. They actually had guys at the bottom waving people down to make sure they slowed before they hit the sand.

I did ok, solid "middle of the pack" (64/125 overall) performance for a non-racer. Strava said avg speed of 11.4 over 27 miles with 3200 feet of climb.

This is the course if anyone is curious:
https://www.strava.com/activities/521327221

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the rider formally known as craptasticycler
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Good race report, thanks!

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Thus, if we are to understand the world, we should live somewhere between judgement and amazement — Alfredo Lopez Austin

Nice race review, I especially like that you got to ride under artillery guns, or whatever they are called, cool.

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