Welcome to the Two Wheeled Texans community! 
Feel free to hang out and lurk as long as you like. However, we would like to encourage you to 
Always wanted to visit the Rock and what better way to tour it than to ride through it! The dirt crew this weekend was Amber, Uwe, Robby, Gary, Virginia, Joyce and I. We all stayed at the same rustic lodge in Quitaque. Saturday brought exitement just short of Turkey Tx as we saw 7-8 turkies and then 6 mule deer in a canyon.
There were ~500 riders that raced the enduro on Sunday and after going through the first test section I soon realized why. The terrain changed to absolutely beautiful, we rode through TPWD sections that are off limits to any form of motorized transport, that is unless you are in this enduro. There were hills, ravines, super tight sections throughout the race. Conditions and traction were perfect, could not have timed this event better.
Uwe, Robby and I were on row 97, Amber was on 94 and Gary was 76. Uwe lead the way with Robby right at his tail and me bringing up the rear. With Uwe keeping time, there were no blown checks this time around. An enduro experience gets waay better when you do it the right way and Uwe did the math for all of us while providing riding tips throughout the race. Definitely felt improvement in my riding. Met up with Amber throughout the race at resets, saw Gary at the pit/gas stop 30 miles into the race. He was looking for our pit crew comprising of Virginia and Joyce but they got lost somewhere and arrived after we had gassed up and left.
There were longer tighter sections after the pit stop, I think it was check 9 where the most time was lost, followed by a 60mph fast section with big wide whoops for some serious air time then onto a FM road for 2-3 miles and finally to the last test section that was mx style with never ending figure 8's onto the last check. It is pretty typical to crash at least 2-3 times in an enduro or for that matter any day while riding dirt, this time I did not drop it even once, know it will be a tough record to match in the future events and maybe it's a hint that pace can be picked up a notch
Amber's buddy Ginny King handed out some energy gel packs and electrolyte capsules. These work wonders and there were no cramps in this event. In fact I was no where nearly as fatigued as previous events, it was a 60 mile blast. Off to the next event
Oh and we (Uwe, Robby and I) entered the challenge team contest, the name's Team Fart Fart
There were ~500 riders that raced the enduro on Sunday and after going through the first test section I soon realized why. The terrain changed to absolutely beautiful, we rode through TPWD sections that are off limits to any form of motorized transport, that is unless you are in this enduro. There were hills, ravines, super tight sections throughout the race. Conditions and traction were perfect, could not have timed this event better.
Uwe, Robby and I were on row 97, Amber was on 94 and Gary was 76. Uwe lead the way with Robby right at his tail and me bringing up the rear. With Uwe keeping time, there were no blown checks this time around. An enduro experience gets waay better when you do it the right way and Uwe did the math for all of us while providing riding tips throughout the race. Definitely felt improvement in my riding. Met up with Amber throughout the race at resets, saw Gary at the pit/gas stop 30 miles into the race. He was looking for our pit crew comprising of Virginia and Joyce but they got lost somewhere and arrived after we had gassed up and left.
There were longer tighter sections after the pit stop, I think it was check 9 where the most time was lost, followed by a 60mph fast section with big wide whoops for some serious air time then onto a FM road for 2-3 miles and finally to the last test section that was mx style with never ending figure 8's onto the last check. It is pretty typical to crash at least 2-3 times in an enduro or for that matter any day while riding dirt, this time I did not drop it even once, know it will be a tough record to match in the future events and maybe it's a hint that pace can be picked up a notch
Amber's buddy Ginny King handed out some energy gel packs and electrolyte capsules. These work wonders and there were no cramps in this event. In fact I was no where nearly as fatigued as previous events, it was a 60 mile blast. Off to the next event
Oh and we (Uwe, Robby and I) entered the challenge team contest, the name's Team Fart Fart
Better start wrenching dude, I'm waking you up @ 7AM tomorrow.
This was a great enduro, the funnest one I have done so far. The next one is going to be a sandy whoop mess though.
