Cranky Monkey Twelve Hour Duo, Quantico Marine Base, VA
June 24, 07 
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Buddy was putting down some consistant laps. The rules of the day had your last lap going out before 7pm. You couldn't leave for a lap after that. Buddy's fifth lap had been fifty-eight minutes. I left him an hour to do his sixth lap. Would he get back in time to send me out before 7pm and do my seventh lap?  Yep - with five minutes to spare. Technically we had second place firmly in our grasp even without the last lap, but the rules of team obligate you to go if your teammate makes it back in time. So yeah I did seven laps and seventy miles that day. My last lap was the longest, but I was taking my time and enjoying my time on the bike.

Matt had the ultimate compliment when Wes came in with thirty seconds to spare. Technically Matt didn't have to go out either (they had actually won the entire event already), but obligations being what they are Matt painfully headed out.


There was a photographer at the event taking pictures. I thought for sure I'd have a photo of me on one of the table-top jumps, but no. I did see
him taking pictures as I went over this log near the end of the race. He got two shots, so I mushed them together. There was a picture in the
gallery of some guy actually launching off this thing. Too precarious for me to get air, but riding it was fun. 


Rob actually made Frank Zappa Kappa t-shirts for everyone. It was kind of funny seeing the pink and green all around.  


The awards were held around 9pm that evening. The guy with the blue hat leaning against the tent pole is Levi. He won the 12hr solo event.
It's ok for him to lean. 


Rob, Diane and Marc got second place in the three person open category. For having everything Diane hates in a mt. bike course (hills and
technical), they did really well. 

 
Levi ecstatic over his first 12hr solo win.  


Buddy and I got second place to Ethan and Mayhew in the singlespeed duo class. They rode well. Not bad considering I had done 170 race
miles in a weeks time. 



 

 


 


 


       










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