12 seconds

Lost Valley was the setting for the second Team Seagal Non-Race, a night relay. The skies looked ominous and eventually opened up with a few light showers that only kept us from riding much before the "race". Instead we sat around and ate Nutty Bars. Jeremy Bock and I teamed up and he went first in the much appreciated non-lemans start to begin the 4.9 mile loop. While he was out on the first lap I had my first ice cold PBR, race fuel. Not to my surprise, he was the first one back in and off I went. It's tough going that hard with no warm up. I made it around and then Jeremy and then me on the final lap.

12 seconds. That is what separated our fastest and our slowest laps. Jeremy threw down a 18:58 and a 19:05, while the big assed boat anchor, I managed a 19:03 and a 19:10. We both deviated by 7 seconds from our first to our second laps. Greg Ott was the only other person to manage a sub 20 minute lap. I think all those who partook in inter-race PBR ingesting should get a time bonus, nah the PBR made me ride without care while fulfilling all my nutritional needs. Typical for me, I went too hard at the start of my first lap, then had to recover at the top of the climb. Went much easier on the second off the start then pushing the climb and maxing out on the gravel-much better. I got to go out on a "victory" lap with Gino and Nico at a much more preferable pace. I have to admit, I was hoping for a mandatory PBR chug at some point, would have needed more coolers.

1st - Team Big and Tasty (Mitch Johnson, Jeremy Bock) - 18:58/38:01/57:06/1:16:16
2nd - Rock Hard (Rock Wamsley, Dave Smith) - 21:15/42:33/1:04:04/1:24:29
3rd - Team Mullet (Brian Busken, Caleb Hulsey Chris Dial) - 21:37/44:51/1:06:03/1:28:12
4th - TC Man Men (Coach, Marshall Lawson) - 22:04/44:40/1:06:46/1:28:12
5th - Momentum (Jason Pryor Keith Weinkein) - 22:34/44:11/1:07:52/1:29:56
6th - T'aints of Steel (Mike Barro, Walter Davis) - 21:55/45:20/1:08:33/1:32:27
7th - Team Rockhounds (Jeff Powell, Steve Timm) - 24:12/46:12/1:08:58/1:33:33
8th - Bryan Adams, Steph Adams - 25:10/53:12/1:14:35/1:35:49
9th - 2 D00dz (Greg Ott, Jason Roberts) - 20:18/51:25/1:11:22/1:41:19
10th - Team Funhouse (Scott Lankford, Damon Moore) - 27:21/52:45/1:19:50/1:45:19
11th - Hub Bitches (Ron Clipp, Devin Clark, Andy Borger Chris Saxton) - 24:35/55:15/1:25:46/1:46:51
12th - Super Dave (Todd Hecht, Dave Dalasio) - 24:44/48:05/1:24:15/1:47:30
13th - Judd and Gino (Judd Myers, Gino Felino) - 30:43/57:54/1:24:45/1:49:00
14th - Nikko, Zach - 34:15/1:00:27/1:28:43/1:54:10
15th - Christopher, Margarette - 28:48/1:06:39/1:28:22/1:59:32

15 teams, some with 3 riders made the obvious choice as where to be on a beautiful Friday night.
Photos here courtesy of Mike Barro. Thanks to Mason, Craig, Gino, Coach,PBR and a bunch of other cool people. I think Caleb wet his cut-offs!