The schwag plays out like this:

Spinergy Xyclone wheelset $900 list
MiniNewt 350 USB headlight ~$110 on Jenson
Crank Bros. Multi-tool ~$60

They were doing the raffle and you had to be there to win. A lot of '6-hour race' people had already gone home. So if someone didn't claim the prize, they'd put the next item on the pile and do it again. I couldn't believe my luck.

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I didn't mention this before, but each lap had about 1375' of climbing, so I was pretty close to a 14,000' day of climbing.

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There was a lot of teams riding. One class is called the 'Salty Dog' class where the combined age of your team has to be at least 180 years. At the podium presentation one of the teams that went up was _reeking_ of smoke. They walked through the crowd next to me and a couple guys I was talking to. One of them was like, "Whoa...". I said, "Hey, we're racing mountain bikes, right?"

Those guys looked like they were having a blast.

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I was just looking at the lap times. I guess through the first few laps I was swapping the lead back and forth with the guy that came in second. After 4 hours I had regained the lead, but we were only separated by about a minute and a half. I started pulling my gap after that.