News From India

Our man Dougy-Fresh sent us a heads up all the way from India:

we finished the race today and are back in gangtok. its been a long 9 days on the bike (something like 30hours). feels like an eternity but i got stronger as the days went on. lots of good and bad things. we are all safe and okay. the bad has been trying to eat in a timely fashion and get protein. also decent sleeping arrangements. the bike race wasn't what we expected. we weren't racing all day as we have come to expect with endurance races. That kind of killed tim and i with our singlespeeds but we fought hard and did well. actually switched to a tougher gear ratio on day 3 because the grades of the climbs weren't as steep as we thought. it allowed us to ride faster and hold our on on the climbs. probably less than a mile of singletrack and the climbs were all pavement roads and jeep trails. i had two flats and blew the compression cartridge on my fork (this morning... last day thank goodness). tim had one flat and also blew his fork (he had a spare lefty). halan and janel had no mechanical issues.

harlan took 1st solo men. janel (tim's gf) took 1st solo female. tim took 6th solo men (singlespeed) and i took 7th solo men (singlespeed).

met some great people from canada and india, europe and nepal. the nepalese riders want us to come back and ride/race with them in nepal.

time to eat again. i think i've lost a lot of weight. protein has been hard to find since chicken and eggs are banned due to bird flue.


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