This Friday, myself and the rest of the Mudbuckets team will journey to wilderness of scenic West Virginia (no Deliverance jokes… at least not yet). Saturday at noon the 24 Hours of Big Bear will begin with our team being represented by Scott Trimble. The LeMans style start will consist of almost 150 team sprinting 1/4 of a mile to their bikes and tearing onto the 12 mile course. There will be bumping and rubbing, but like they say, rubbin’s racin’. Scott will be followed by Rick Spangler, then Jim Cassidy and myself batting clean-up. I expect that I should be on the course by 4pm for my first lap. When I’m done, we’ll start all over again.
After reading the race update that was sent out by Granny Gear this week, we’re all really excited about this weekend. There are tons of people expected to be there, with nearly 150 racers on the course at all times (this nearly guarantees that I won’t be riding alone in the event that I start to hear dualing banjos in the distance… ok, maybe one reference!). There will I have to give a big thank you to all of the people that have supported our team during the preparation and fundraising for this race. We certainly couldn't have done it without all of you. We fully intend to make you all proud! If anyone is interested, you can watch the realtime results as the race is running at GrannyGear.com. All riders will be wearing RFID bracelets that will track our times for each lap and the overall time for each team. You’ve gotta love technology! I also hope to have some great photos of the event next week… after I can walk again! So wish us luck and thanks again for all of your support!