Breck Epic–Day 5

They just had to do it… seems like every MTB stage race ends up with some janky stage that leaves many of us scratching our collective heads.

Breck Epic was all over it today with climbing choice single tracks only to descend silly ski area service roads. That wasn’t enough, though. BE served up a nice hike-a-bike through some sort of wetlands (evidently a hiker/biker political hot-button). Which leaves my to wonder why?

Why push ones bike through a marsh anyway? If the hikers want their muckhole tire-track free, then they can have it!

Next up was the deathmarch/hike-a-bike over a mountain pass ala TransRockies(walkies). Dumb and dumber dudes! Anyway, there is your constructive criticism–you want this bike racer back, keep me peddlin’!

Anyway, for those who care, I finished way off the back and some dude won. Don’t really care who or how because sometimes we all just have to take a breather in our very own little pain cave to lament and reflect on what might have been…

Check out the course here:

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=8603495

My body seems about half broken but my will and spirit rock on unitl next time!

VP