A bit of choas this morning. Good turn out. I'm not sure where the victor is from.

It was a checkpoint style with riddles at each checkpoint to figure out where the next point was. Good idea in theory. The first checkpoint was reached with no snafu's, however upon reading the riddle, our once cohesive riding pack split in every direction and some ended up going the right way and a lot went the wrong way. I'm not sure how many people actually went to the correct 2nd checkpoint, but I was not one of them. After getting way lost we called the help line and they told us where the third checkpoint was. When we got there they told us the race was over, and to just head back to the start. Kind of a bogus morning, but that's what I get for not being a good riddle solver.

So a five checkpoint race turned into a bunch of people getting lost and the race being called early.

So it goes.

Oh also, there were a couple wrecks. A guy in our pack dropped into a deep wide pothole and went over the bars. It caused two flats, a trashed from rim and some bent handlebars. He was okay though.

There was another that was a little worse. I don't have full fact on this so I won't speculate. All I do know is the rider was crossing one of of the grated bridges downtown and lodged his front tire in a slot just big enough for it to fit. Tire got stuck, he went over the bars and scraped is face. Ambulance came. We were notified at the end of the race that we was okay. The other Chicagoans on these forums went to the hospital to check on him and I'm sure they can give a better account of the happening and correct me where I went wrong.

That was our morning.