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Enduro - Open Men 18 & Under

I arrived to the Sea Otter venue at 7:30 AM on Thursday, and I thought I had plenty of time to get a few practice runs on the first stage. Unfortunately, the packet pick up took so long that I only got one quick lap in before the pros went off. I got shuttled back up, and spun around until my start time.

The first stage doubles as the DH course, mainly…

The first lap started at a brisk pace, and I pushed my way into the top ten. I stayed in a pack of about 15 guys for the rest of the lap, and the pace settled in.

When we hit the flowy roller section on the second lap, Topher Lewis broke away from the pack, and easily put almost a minute into the main group. By the time we hit the rocky half of the course, all that was left of the big group was me, Clayton…