BC Bike Race - Day 7 - Whistler to Whistler

Up early ....for the last time!!! Yay. And boo. It's almost over.

K manage to lose dopeyon the way to whistler.... He rides in a
different school bus.

Arriving at whistler it's COLD. NASCAR and like have no arm/leg
earners so they spoon one another for the last time!! Missile can't
find his bike...again...Dopey comes to the rescue...again....thanks
Dopey.....again

Thus morning I feel like crap.....I am coughing up unmentionable stuff
from deep in my lungs that makes me want to vomit.

Still, we are in whistler. The fresh air does me good as i feel far
better at the fairmont chateau our staging ground for start,
intermediate aid station, finish and "banquet". The only thing
chateauish about the thing is it's size. It's amonster building , for
whistler at least.

We arrange ourselves in groups of 3 then we hear we willbe let loose
in waves of 50. We are off. At least the leaders are. We see them
climbing a steeeeep hill. We are delayed because in their enthusiasm
the leaderstske the wrong way anchave to be brought back inline.

We are off. Boum. Steep up hill. Wow. It is steep. Dopey takes a while
to warm up so he isbehind fir a bit. We climb to descend. A certfadt
ski piste run off ensues followed by another steep uphill. The first
10 minutes are "fun"

We climb higher and eventually inter 'nice n easy' a green downhill
track bur wd ride up it. Fast. A traverse and then we enter a real
downhill track withbig kickers. Dopey flies. Literally. Obviously.
Missile descends at gets abit if air....I want to finish intact:so far
no mechanicals, flats, fallings, or blood. Let's keep it that way.

Blood is spilled however....but not by me or dopey. Two unfortunate
souls apparently were overwhelmed: stunned looks, bloidynises and
bleeding faces from obviousface plants. They are being looked after by
other people so I ride on. Ouch.

We pass thru the " chateau" some if the strip teasers....oops i mean
massage girls are there cheering (us??) on. I don't see them or hear
them but they saudtgry were there when wd saw them aT the banquet.

The hard part is over. No mire real climbing. But looooots of
technical single track thru the woods ensues: all trails named after
Frank Zappa Songs: toads of the shirt forest, why johnny can't read,
the torture never stops.

Just like Zappa, these trails ate Fun. Vety technical twisty turny dry
rocks n roots. Awe sssss mmmmm!!

missile is rocking!! Overtaking left and right, dopey is struggling
(apparently) to keep up. Every time u shoutout Joest to seeifhe us
there...he is...but apparently each time he had just caught up with
me.....only to see me blast off again because I thought he was hanging
with me.

We ride some elevated platforms. Quite a few actually!! some long
ones. Fun. Fun. Fun.

We get kicked out of thefun on"the grand wazoo" thinking we must be
there. We have done 21 of 21 km already!!!

But what us this? More uphill??? Oh yes. A nice steep fireroad to keep
us warm!! I hammer up - heart rate is good: legs are good : I overtake
quite a few people. Yeah. I check for dopey. Almost there just a few
people back. I slacken off a tad Dopey catches me up and in we go to
the last few turns through the woods. Berms. Rail em. Down through the
ski piste and over the line with a nice wheelie!!

YEAH ....WE MADE IT.

Good job Dopey. Thanks for being a great team mate. See you next year,
same time, same place?

And now. Sleep..... tomorrow (today) the bike park and 2 Norco
downhill "rigs" await missile and Jason.

Good day to you all from whistler.

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