St. Joe Pain Train pt. 1

The MTB season got rolling today in truly sadistic fashion. A full report will be filed soon when the memory of the searing pain and incessant desire to throw in the towel have subsided somewhat. Needless to say, 23 inches of precipitation this year, 24 miles of challenging terrain and a stacked field all combined to reduce my legs to two lengths of quivering agony. The benefit of hindsight in the coming days will likely dull this sensation, but I have not suffered so completely in a long long while. A field of roughly 25 and nearly 10 DNF's speak volumes to the intensity of todays race. More to come...