Triangle Adventure Racing Team

Okay, so you might ask where’s the adventure in this….well just hold on a bit….this was my 2nd Annual Foray into the twisted underbelly of Mountain Biking…and was far more wicked than 2006…I’ve said it before you haven’t done this one then you are missing out on one of the most brilliantly designed all-terrain bicycle events around….so about 40 riders showed up..some very nice bikes by the way…some serious riders…..some well..they were there to drink…I wanted to do both..but ended up focusing on the drinking part…needless to say I did much better in that category then the riding.

We started out with a well paced 3-4 mile road ride over to the local trails which were muddy and quickly becoming extinct as indicated by the bulldozer ruts…well being as adaptable as mountain bikers with a half gallon of Jack Daniels can be, the ruts quickly turned into a mudslide competition…after about 5 beers and two shots of Jack…I took a run at it…good distance but not many style points….by now the beer was flowing..the adrenalin pumping and the XC ride was on tap…two miles of muddy singletrack….it would have been hard to ride sober, as such..massive carnage..riders dumping all over the place…I often found myself carving through trees…only to realize I was off the trail…….we arrived back at camp, only to start chipping away at the massive pile of beers…I don’t recall names…only alcohol content…7.25…6.5…8.75…5.5 and uhhhh…well some more Jack Daniels shots…and then more beers…the trials competition didnt go so well for most of the riders…myself included and so after a couple of endo’s into thankfully soft wet mud I took to the entertaining and pretty much sick viewing of people wrecking their bikes. We all then set back out again for the conclusion of the rally and the crowning of the king and queen….unfortunately the road ride back got ugly with numerous drunken cyclist crashes….after wrecking myself and getting tore up….I took a shortcut to the house to lick my wounds…thank god I was feeling pretty righteous or that wreck might have hurt…….all in all it was a good day…a day in which I finished out by hosing off the bike..my clothes…cleaning up abrasions and being worthless the rest of the day…..I can’t wait for next year!!!

Pictures here HappyFun