Made my first Sprint Enduro! What a learning experience.
Battle Creek MC is a really cool place, we drove up Friday and stayed over, ran Round 1 on Saturday. My first thoughts were, how am I supposed to know what to do? It was all new to me. They did a good job at the riders meeting explaining it all for everyone that had never been there before and once you get in line other riders help you figure it out.
They started with the Cross test and had chutes setup to line up via A/B/C. You just sort of lined up in the chute where you thought you fit speed wise and you go off every 15 seconds and then just go as fast as you can to the finish. The start and finish on each test are super tight in between trees to make sure you go slow for the transponder.
Then you go back to the truck, sit down for 10 minutes or so, get a drink, and then go up for the Enduro test. Continue alternating with breaks in between until you have done 3 runs on each test.
On the Cross test, I would usually catch and pass a couple guys during my run. A couple times fast kids came up and passed me. The Cross test was some of the most run riding I've ever done! 4.5 miles long of wide sweeping woods and then MX track. It was super, super fun!!!! I could have done that all day long.
On the Enduro (woods) test, OH BOY. My first run on that I crashed 3 times, stalled another 4 times (thank you magic button) and got passed by probably 15 people. It was way more tight and gnarly than I was expecting. I was thinking as I was doing it "holy s**t I have to do this 2 more times." They also had 3 "Extreme" endurocross sections but there were pussy lines around them. On my first run, I took the pussy line on all of them just to get through it. The next two passes I took the extreme lines, they really weren't too hard but I did eat s**t in the firewood my last run and had to have people help get the bike off from on top of me!
I ended up finishing 7th out of 8 in 50B. Clearly my woods times were way off the pace. Total time for me was 95 minutes.
Results here and you can filter by class and see all the times.
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Overall it was super fun! I will go back for sure, not sure if I will make the next one but there is one at Dutch Sport Park I will probably hit.
