May 4th the
Spot Brand/Twin Six and DCCCofD (Delaware Cyclo Cross Coalition of
Delaware) brothers and sisters converged on the Lodi farm in
Fredricksburg, VA for the annual Twelve Hours of Lodi. Not just
another twelve hour, this race starts at Midnight and runs till noon
on Sunday. Yeah. It's tough. We showed up Saturday afternoon
under threatening skies to setup
the
compound.
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For teams we had Marc, Matt
and I on a three man singlespeed team, Paul, Jan and Ethan on a
three man team, and Diane and Amy on a
duo women's team. Our
three soloists were Rob, Blair (training for the 300 mile Red Ass in
Manitoba) and Fitzy. Running the show were Tom
and Ethan's
girlfriend Meghan.
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The beginnings of a compound.
Before the race would start, we'd have walls, generators, lights and
heaters to keep us going through the
night.
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With a lot of people having
two bikes (just in case), we had a lot of bikes to ride that
night.
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When I wasn't racing or trying to stuff food
into myself, I'd try and grab some sleep in the back of my car. I
guess I got an hour or so through
the entire
night.
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Threatening skys made good on their word and
started to rain. The rain would continue till just about the
beginning of the race at midnight.
That left the course mostly
slick with a few really soft (muddy) sections. The off-camber roots
became particularly
fun.
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Matt preparing
our pasta feast. We actually had an area of the compound sectioned
off as a dining area. It was very
nice.
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After dinner some people
tried to get some
sleep.
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So a lot of people tried to get some
sleep.
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I wasn't
so tired, so I sat up suffering the torture of waiting.
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