Ouachita Challenge results quick report
The 2007 Ouachita Challenge is in the books. This is just a short report of the day's events as I know them right now. Lots more information to come.
Who won? Jason Sager, by about 31 seconds over Chris Ploch, who made good on his plan to podium this year. Congrats, Chris, on your monster impressive performance. We'll all be checking your blog to get the lowdown on how your day unfolded.
The course record... not broken this year. The 4:30 and change mark will stand another year. The winning time was right around 4:50.
The Unit and I started with our crew dead last. Our crew started out at the back of the neutral roll out and one of our lot had a mechanical as we approached the top of the first climb. Keeping a crew of 4 together through all that great singletrack proved to difficult; and our crew quickly split into 2 small groups of 2. Unit and I spent the day picking our way forward and ended up (we believe) tied for 14th in the singlespeed category.
The day started out in the 40's under a bright blue sky. Ultimately the temperature topped out in the low 80's, just as predicted. A slight breeze made it about what I'd call the perfect day for a 60+ mile romp through the mountains of Arkansas.
We have a lot more to tell, but those are the high points for tonight. Time to relax and recap the day's events before some well-earned rest and a long drive back in the morning. More to come.
Good Job!
Great work guys. And mega congrats to the C man on the silver medal, that's really fantastic. Looking forward to hearing more.
Most appreciated
Thanks Bobber. We really had a great time.
Riding around in the mountains with hundreds of people, many of whom you've never met, but all of whom wouldn't hesitate to do whatever they could to help you out of whatever jam you got yourself into... how could we not enjoy ourselves.
Mark Ewers
I may not be fast, but I'm 2 old 2 go slow