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* At 1:32:20 the rear camera turns itself on, it wouldn't turn on at the start.
* At 58:13 my teammate almost gets taken out by 2 charging deer, just barely escaping getting t-boned!
* This race was 3 weeks past a broken rib, concussion and injured hand/wrist. Felt decent on race day, but not 100%. Also, post crash, I switched to 170mm cranks from 175mm after years of too many pedal strikes. Due to the crank change, I had my seat a bit too high and that resulted in some very sore hamstrings mid race. Lastly, I switched to new shoes along with the cranks because I was getting bad hot spots on my toes. So lots of new stuff on race day! Caveats/excuses aside, I made some hydration and fueling changes that had me feeling the best yet at a 100 mile race. Was aiming for sub 8 hours, but came in just short at 8:16:43. It's all I had on the day and was happy to persevere in spite of the inuries and new gear.
The start of the race was unseasonably cold (40 degrees) which required a wind vest and arm warmers. Though by the end of lap 1 (2:40:53), it warmed up enough that I was able to ditch the extra gear. Lap 1 was pretty fast for the first couple hours and outside of my pace. Eventually I dropped back to conserve energy but that fast start may have cost me later. Lap 2 felt about right but fatigue started to set in. Even thought Lap 1 had an additional 13 minute (4 mile) roll in, my Lap 2 time was slower at 2:43:24. At this point I was now 4:17 minutes behind after 2 laps to go sub 8 hours. I would need to make those 4+ minutes up on Lap 3. It wasn't to be and Lap 3 I fell apart and it took me 2:52:27, for a total race time of 8:16:43. Which was a PR for me on the course as my time in 2021 was 8:36:24 (opposite direction) and 9:19:11 in 2018.
The Lumberjack 100 is a 100 mile race featuring 85% singletrack terrain and 15% two track fire roads. The race was held on June 18th, 2022 in Wellston, Michigan (Manistee County) at the BigM, XC and Ski Area in the Manistee National Forrest. The race consisted of 3 laps of about a 32 miles, with a couple mile initial paved rollout, totaling about a 100 miles with around 8,500 feet of climbing. Course direction for 2022 was clockwise, which was a second time for me in this direction and the same as in 2018 when it was my first ever 100 mile MTB.
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