redass review

well that was fun while it lasted.this is my race story.my adventure started the wed before the redass where i was in a wed nite race in birds hill.it had rained and was a little slick.on my first lap i went down hard and hit a stump which in return dug a nice hole in my leg.i remember then my wife warning me not to race.man did she call that one.so off to the sewing factory i went in portage.2 hrs later they finally got all the dirt out and put it back together.well this wasn't a great start for the redass the doctor told me not to race to much strain on the stitches he said.i thought to myself there is know way i am going to miss this race ,the cash i spent ,the training,all the talking.so friday came and there i was at the supper and meeting,man what a good supper.it was nice to see all the racers everyone was happy and probably a little nervous.it was short and sweat.so back to portage i went with my wife to get ready,it was around 11:30 when we finally hit the sack.3:oo am wakey wakey ihad to have coffee load up and pick don sissons up at 4:30 and be at the race start at 5:30 5:45.once there we all got ready took some bathroom breaks and were off.it was a great morning sunny not much wind.i started off with the front group,but it didn't take long and few guys took off hard it was blair and the other speedsters which left me in a group of 4 others don,lindsay,brian and dallas.we all were riding well together most of the time at around 25 to 29 km's per hour.dallas was the first to drop off to his own pace while the rest of us rode on to check point 1.after a short stop and a refill on water we rode on shorty after i realized that i would not be able to keep pace so i fell back and regrouped.alone know it was time to break out the tunes ohhhhh yeh.about 2 hrs later i ran into ben so we rode together, then 1 hr after that we ran in dallas and dave,after we found the road with no sign we were off to check point 2.by this time my spidey senses were ( you know ) i was out off food and water i was very weak so me and ben stopped at store by checkpoint 2 were i bought a sandwich and large ice tea mmmmm good,then down the road to the checkpoint were i had the rest of my food and drink.there i ran into don,dallas ,dave,hal,and jon.i then realized that i had know jacket for night so don gave me his because he had to retire do to really sore cramping feet.after refueling i rode off with jon which started off great until we got soaked and the roads got muddy but we forged on.then just before dark we ran into hal and dave who were trying to find there way so we formed a team and rode together to portage.we reached ckeckpoint 3 at around 2 am where we ate changed and i even took time to hot tub it.after all that i decided to get the show back on the rode,hal thought it was a plan so we took off together at 3:30am we both had tunes on and rode pretty steady with some rest stops along the way and then finally the end 11:15am .i really want to thank all my riding parteners,don for the jacket,hal for taking lots of cool pics and for the pain killers and everyone else involved.thanks lindsay for putting on the race.