12 Hours of Sugar Creek Recap.

Kraig and I left around 11am on Friday and headed directly to the race site in Ferryville, Wi. We planned on meeting Jeff Kerkove at 3:00 and pre-ride the course. It was a great course even though there was a 1 mile long climb at the start of each lap. Each lap consisted of 730 feet of climbing and was about 4.5 miles long. After the pre-ride Kraig, Jeff and I headed for Onalaska and checked in to the hotel. Then we went out to eat and got some race day groceries. Jeff helped Kraig with his nutrition and race day diet. (I want to publicly apologize to Jeff for Kraig talking his ear off) The Holiday Inn Express was fine except that we got a smoking room which smelled! Race day started with breakfast at Perkins and then off to the race site. There were 4 entrants in the 12 Hour Solo SS class. Kraig and I rode together for most of the day in 2nd and 3rd place. The guy in 4th had some mechanical issues and was off to a slow start. Later in the day he caught and passed us. Kraig and I continued to ride together through 11 hours talking about how the race might end. While talking we decided that since he had never made the podium in a race before and I had helped him build his SS a couple weeks earlier that it would be cool if he got 3rd place. So after 9 laps I stopped and he did 10 laps for 3rd place. He had 2 flats during the day otherwise his SS was great. My day went as expected - I rode fine through 5 laps or so and then had to take more and longer breaks. Now that New-Mart is up and going I'm looking forward to the 12 hours of Metro. I plan on getting alot of riding in from now until then as well as doing the Thursday night series at Buck Hill.