MuleX 2009

Submitted by Bill on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 4:06pm

Mulecross is well documented, take a look at the Mule X Blog. For the visually stimulated there is the video (highly recommended). For the snapshot crowd there are the photos. And the stat geeks the results. Here is my short recollection of last weekend.

Saturday morning my friend bob and I took the drive to Bozeman in anticipation of snow and cold wet muddy conditions. When we arrived we found perfect fall weather and the mud was really minimal. When we approached the venue I immediately saw the large run-up that dominated the skyline. I said, "holy shit ... a real run up". Not only was this run up steep but apparently muddy.

I haven't run up a hill like that in the mud since I left Plattsburgh New York. I remember the days behind the fieldhouse when we included streams, single track, and long run sections. Once I remember we even put a gate-hopping in the race.

MC-ing the event was a gunslinger and

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Submitted by Bill on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 12:13pm.

I would like to add a note for the photo second up from the bottom. The one with the course and torn down flagging. I just want to claim responsibility for the condition of this part. I was racing and came around the corner too vigorously. I caught the first stake and dragged it and all remaining steaks and streamers for about 20 feet as I struggled to remove it from my front tire/fork. Almost lost a finger. I was in a hurry because Frnak G was behind me :)

Was wondering what happened...

Submitted by Rich on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 4:49pm.

Ya know.. I was wondering what had happened to that part of the course. Did my roving course maintenance crew not do their job? Was the wind blowing THAT hard? Oh.. now I get it. The dead flagging was just a consequence of hard racing. Cool. And.. we'd know if anybody cut the course -- cuz we'd see their obvious tracks in the sloppy mud. :)