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September 28, 2006:
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Over the weekend was the Unadilla GNCC. For anyone who wasn't there, it rained alot leading up to the race, and then it poored Sunday morning while the A.M. race was racing. I knew it would be a long day for my race in the P.M., but I wasn't nearly prepared for what I was in for. 175 guys didn't do 1 lap out of a little over 500 bikes in the P.M. race. I had successfully wrecked my clutch, and overheated all within the first half-mile. Within that first half-mile, it was chaos. There were bikes everywhere, and lines going everywhere. I don't even know if the line I was taking would lead me to any arrows. When I overheated, I hiked out and grabbed coolant and hiked back to my bike. I put it in, and got going again, only to pick another wrong line, where I boiled all the coolant out again. I put whatever water was in my camelback in the bike and got going again. I was riding good, started picking slower guys off and I eventually came across a course worker, where I opted to ask for directions to get back to the pits so I didn't wreck my bike, because if I overheated, I was done as I had nothing left in my camelback. I made my way out, where I armed myself with two poland springs bottles full of coolant and put them in a fanny pack and then headed back out to where I had left off. I knew my day was over, but I was determined to do 1 lap at least. I got back into the trail, and started moving well, only to wind up having my brakes fade in and out. What was great, was that I ended up having no brakes going into the motocross section of the course. I had to get down Screw-U (which is very, very steep) with no brakes, that was a blast! I managed to get down it with no incident to speak of, except alot of yelling! I had to stop once shortly after that to put some coolant in and made it around for 1 lap. The one lap only took me 1 hour, 52 minutes and came across in 39th. Not bad considering the amount of hiking, and stopping and also the riding out through fields back to the pits I did. When I made it through the barrels, I kept going until I hit the first mile of really tough trail, where my bike started to overheat and lost my clutch again. I found a spot to ride out and called it a day, a little beat knowing that I gave up. Every dnf I've had this year has had me being towed out, so riding to the trailer under my own power left me feeling a little defeated, but it was no sence in trying for another lap in those conditions and the condition my bike was in. All in all it was a blast though, and can't wait for another wet Unadilla GNCC!
-Seth Eberhardt |
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