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[QUOTE="GETMETOCA, post: 555634, member: 28996"] Another fun-filled weekend with my DRN homies! I sucked in the Piglet, so my ride report focus will be on the positive social aspects of the weekend and much less on my riding. 2:00 PM Friday, I'm in a two vehicle caravan with Karna and Justin, heading toward Clear Creek. We get to the newly sectioned off meadow that will serve as overflow camping and there's Buddy waving us in. NVR FNSH has the Taj Mahal parked at the top of what will become the NorCal Spode circle of campers and tenters with yellow caution tape tied to strategically spaced shovel handles to mark our territory. Firelily has just purchased a new toy hauler and I really want to check it out so I run over to see it before unloading. I see a stove and oven and a shower and creature comforts and I'm glad Firelilly has such a nice new rig - she deserves it! I finally meet Placelast, my favorite ride report guy! What a great and interesting guy! Placelast, I hope we see more of you at future rides! Kali and Kevin are there with Nellie and so is Jonala with Buzz. I get my bike and gear unloaded, then set up my impromtu kitchen on the tailgate of my truck. Its dark by the time I get dinner ready for the group. It sure was nice to have 4 or 5 hungry men with flashlights and lanterns lighting my every culinary move. Thanks guys! I wanted to ride up to check in and get my minute and all that good stuff. Having a headlight was in my favor this time as it was dark-thirty by the time I left to go. I got minute 26 with Firelilly and Buddy, Kali and Kevin and I all on the same row. While I was up at Oak Slope I got to see ScottYZ250 who FINALLY brought his wife Shara to the event. What a great gal Scott! Bring her more often, will ya? On the way back to camp, NVR FNSH wowed me with fireroad nac-nacs and no handers...:worship: This must have been my gratuity for the use of my headlight, as he had none. Saturday morning and key time is 10:00 am which allows for a nice, leisurely wake up and preparation for the Piglet. Check air in tires (Thanks, Justin), tape time card and number to bike, wipe frost off seat, make breakfast for NorCal spodes, give dogs their treats, install jart chart (thanks again, Justin), make second pot of coffee, set wristwatch to correct key time (thanks once again, Justin). Time to put my gear on and stretch a bit. Karna and Justin and I ride down to sound check and pass. Time to head down to the starting line. Karna and Justin are on an earlier minute, so I hook up with Kali and Kevin and Firelilly and Buddy. We sit off to the side while earlier minutes take off. Mike Pascarella stops by me to say hi, he's riding with his 10 year old son Joey (More on Joey later). Good to see him. Okay time to go! Minute 26 takes off, Kali and her new timekeeping skills in the lead. After a few miles we're all running a little hot, so we pull over. I remember how slow I am and decide to go ahead, knowing that my speed will somehow yin and yang with the time. Ooops! Into the first check 1 minute early. Guess my yin was a little faster today than usual. About a mile later, we're all on a double track trail. I'm negotiating a medium sized rock in the trail just as Buddy makes a move to pass me and KA-POW!! we knock bars and both of us go down hard. I raise my head and Buddy's bike is yards ahead of me but Buddy must have gone over the creek embankment. My left shoulder feels overextended and I have the feeling severe road rash on the left side of my body is in order. Buddy struggles up the side of the embankment to make sure I'm okay. Buddy's shoulder is also messed up, but he's a tough guy (We call him Buddy Soprano around the campfires) I get to my feet, wave on Kali and Kevin who have stopped to assess the carnage. Buddy is worried about both me and my bike but the bike starts and I'm okay, nothing broken as far as I can tell. Time to get going. The rutted downhills were a bit disconcerting, the single track twisty stuff (next to potential fall-over-cliff extravaganza's) were freaky. But, thanks to my lowered gearing, I made it up EVERY SINGLE hill I encountered - this was truly an accomplishment. Secondly, the really freaky rutted downhills did not faze me and although I took them slow, I got down them with no trouble. By mile 20 my shoulder and arm started to swell up and give me some trouble. I was unable to control my steering on steeper downhills when my left side protested. A couple of washouts later, I decided I should get to first gas and assess my need to go on. I get through more check points and see that I'm going so dang slow I fear I'm close to houring out. Farmer John is at another check point and assures me that I have a reset coming up and I'm doing fine. "It gets easier after this check; Enjoy yourself!" says Farmer John. I'm just so happy to see his comforting familiar face, I believe the rest of the way to gas is going to be cake. Not so. Okay, it was pastoral in a meandering, meadowed, kind of way for a little while, but then came some more single track stuff and whooped out uphills-dang! Why is my left arm throbbing so bad?? I gingerly touch my left tricep and notice that is all bulged out like a water balloon. My elbow guard acting like the perfect tournequet to my swelling arm. I get to first gas, wore out and hurting. I decide to call it a day and cut my losses. I turn in my time sheet and head back to camp. Once there, Mick and Jennifer and Pierre get me some ice for my arm, which is now turning blue. The bulging fluid filled tricep is kind of gross and Kevin has flashbacks of an elderly, sleeveless school teacher. He tells me not to write on any chalk boards for a while :confused: Mini has this amazing Japanese medicine patch for just such things and slaps one on my arm. The pain starts to subsist and so does the swelling. We all hit the sack a little earlier that night since those riding the Boar have a much earlier key time. Sunday morning arrives and its a flurry of activity for the guys riding (Justin, Mick, Fremontguy, NVR FNSH, Jonala, RetSenior and others) We head to the gas stop to cheer them on and give them encouragement. Little Joey Pascarella comes in with his dad at the second gas stop and he is completely wore out. I am simply amazed that this 10 year old boy has the guts and the skill and the strenghth to get through 60+ miles of an enduro that is clearly kicking some grown men's asses. He's down only 17 minutes, but he's completely exhausted. He can barely get himself off his bike so I help him complete the task. I just want to scoop this little guy up and hug him and squeeze him, he's so brave! Someone puts a wet hankerchief around his neck and I hold him up by the shoulders and walk him to some shade. Someone gets him a Capri sun and he starts to perk up a bit. I tell him that I took a class for beginners last summer from his Dad and Dave Wood and that his dad had shown us all this big, steep embankment that "his son Joey" had conquered and how proud everyone was of him. I knew he was feeling a lot better when he told me what trail he had passed me on at the December Training Wheels enduro at Forrest Hill :| Joey decides he wants to finish the last loop of the Boar and he gets back on his bike. I am just in awe of this kid. I wait for Brian to get back from loop two and find out he's out there helping downed riders and guys out of gas. Always the good samaritan :thumb: Time to get back to camp and load up and head out. Another great weekend had by all! [/QUOTE]
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