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["Kathy Mayeda" <Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com>]

I did the ride last year and survived!  It was very fun.  I'm doing it again this year.  I don't know where you got the idea that only 50% finished.  I just checked the results again and there were 75 finishers and 12 DNF.

 

The trails will be in a different order this year.  Last year there was a lot of switchbacked single tracks.  It's not an easy ride, but it was only my 4th endurance ride and we finished in the top 20.  Not because I wanted to, but Beau likes to run and I'm too stupid to stop him.  I was screaming that he was going to kill me, but I was smiling all the time as he missed turns, bounced over embankments and leaping up hills in bounds.  We were only a half an hour behind being top 10 and might of made it if I didn't have my leg cramp at lunch and took an extra 1/2 hour.  Didn't electrolyte enough so Beau thumped at the finish.  I think that I'm a wiser rider now.  Shoot me if I'm stupid again.

 

Good water availability, nice scenery, tons of volunteers taking numbers because there is an area of loops within loops that will drive you crazy.

 

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Angela and Ron [mailto:mccorkle@thegrid.net]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:39 PM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC:

Just wondering if anyone has ever done the Lake Oroville ride in the western
division?  I would love to hear about it the ride is this coming weekend.
Sounds kinda tough over 50% don't make it.  Angela  mccorkle@thegrid.net