mountain biking 7:00:00 [3]
this is where the wheels started to fall off for me. after a few puzzle challenges we headed over the ridge to a campground TA. the ridge was a total hike a bike most of the way up and half way down - a steep rock garden.
I had been racing as if it was an 8-12 hour race and my fitness is good enough for a 4 hour race, so this was bound to happen, but I was bagged by the time we hit the campground.
didn't want to leave the nice campfire, but we headed off on another bike-O up the next ridge. I was disappointed to find that I couldn't bike that ridge either. Maybe during the day with full energy, but it wasn't happening on half a tank.
We foolishly biked right past 26 on our way to 28 and had to come back the same way instead of going straight down. We left a lot more CPs up there than we had planned b/c it was taking so long and we thought it would be good to get off the bikes for awhile.