I gotta tell ya.......
George Zelenz is a freaking long distance riding rally GOD!!!! I don't know where he gets the drive, but he is on another level folks.
He and I both took the route that led to the big teaser bonus - 5300 points to Casper, WY. We were the only two to go after this bonus. Well, let me tell you. I was speaking with him the night before as we were trying to figure out which routes we wanted to take, and I was leaning towards Casper, which was almost a BBG in itself, and a few extra bonii to get some additional points, as I knew Casper itself would not be a winner. Well George, was thinking Casper too, but a with a whole bunch of difficult bonii to go with it. I was thinking to myself, this guy is nuts. He will never be able to do all that. I know I couldn't.
So, things did not go so well for me during first 1/3 of the rallyl, as I was constantly drowsy, and having to stop for breaks. I got three easier bonii enroute to Casper, and left Casper at exactly the halfway point - 12 hours elapsed. Well, 130 miles south of Casper in the dark, a flying pair of PHIDs comes around a bend and go off in deference to my retinas.
Shit! That has got to be George! He is 260 miles behind me! There is no way he will finish on time! Well boys and girls, he did finish on time...........
barely..........
3 freaking minutes to spare! That bastard got all those other big bonii as well as Casper. Inhuman I say! A freaking rally ANIMAL!!!! I humbly bow down in his presence. I am but a mere mortal, he a rally GOD!
Ol GZ set a BLISTERING pace. And when I say blistering, I mean f***ing literally!
Witness:
Georgie Porgie's rear tire at the end of the rally. Thankfully, he had no idea until it was all over.
Congratulations!!!! Way to go George.
Me, unfortunatlely I faded. I am usually good to go during the whole 24 hours of a rally, but I had problems in the beginning, and faded in the wee, cold hours of the morning. So I finished an hour early. Now I look at the standings and see that one more medium bonus would have gotten me 5th place. Ouch. That hurts. I coulda done that. Also see now where a GPS would be useful. That would have gotten me at least one more bonus. Lessons learned for the next time.
And I didn't crash!!!!
