So, How did the Quad go?

Me: “Well, the weather looked like it was going to be a mess of snow and rain, but in the end it was perfect. I could tell my endurance is not where I’d like it to be – I got so tired on the way up. I was having a good race for me though, meeting my time goals despite some nasty calf cramps, until the bike down.”

Friend: “The last leg? What happened?”

Me: “I DNF’ed. My first. Boy that was a bummer. I had a mechanical. I was so disappointed”

Friend: “What, a flat tire? Didn’t you carry stuff to fix a flat?”

Me: “Yeah, I had a flat tire…. well, really it was two flat tires….”

Friend: “Oh, so you didn’t have enough to fix two flats. That sucks.”

Me: “Yeah, and then the seat came off the titanium rails, and the carbon fork broke. Not to mention the handlebars were crumpled into a small doughnut, and the aerobars snapped off.”

:P
Here’s a picture of my ‘mechanical.’

Unfortunately, a forest service employee had a seizure while driving his truck through the bike transition area during the race. No one was hurt, miraculously, but he crashed into a line of about 15 bikes. Mine was one of the casualties. If I’d gotten to the transition area 10 minutes sooner, I could have saved my bike! D’oh!