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The requested ride report.

I showed up rode and finished JK

O.K. so the original plan was for me to grab the bike in Ojos and ride the bike to the finish, that would have been about 410 miles. The other two guys were going to put in the first 40. On race day a bus had flipped and the road was closed, they were turning people around. Now in a full frantic panic we decided on the radio that I would take the bike in town. My buddy who paid for the whole thing rode the bike off the start to mile .4 yes less than half a mile, and I rode the rest (about 450 miles). I lost my GPS unit at like mile 30, which was weird since it has worked perfect for 2 years of thrashing. I had to run the whole thing on memory and markings and I had to guess speed in speed sections. Needles to say I blew it and missed a bunch of virtual checkpoints and sped some as well. I got docked about 2 hours for my mistakes so my official time is like 15hrs and 40 minutes my undocked time was like 13hours and 40 minutes. My official finish was 10th in class....not all that impressive, should have been more like 5th or 6th. If I was in the Ironman class which is essentially what I did I would have got a second. I really wasn't in it for the place I just wanted the finish and I officially got it. My XR650R never skipped a beat and was a great bike when you get tired, it will couch whoops at speed. For a fat old guy with essentially no training I did O.K. and I'm not super beat I could ride it again today. I am not really a Baja racer type guy. I like riding slow single-track and this is the most 5th gear riding I have ever done. I won't ride fast when I can't see so I got smoked by a few bikes in the beginning and I don't really do 100mph I just cruise consistent. I rode all my prerunning and the whole race with one washout in a corner at like 3mph.My goals were to make it in and out unhurt so I can still provide for my family and if I could accomplish my first goal and finish as well that would be a perfect day. I did both and am pretty stoked on the whole deal.

That's awesome, are you planning to do it again or now that you have done that you move on to other things?
Congrats on a great accomplishment that not too many people have done!

A Baja 500 Finisher Medal beats any of that shit handed out at the Olympics......

Your the friggin' man!!

I wish Brit was still here.... I'd make him give you a handjob....

That is a huge accomplishment ! Well done, you should be very proud of yourself! All of us are!

I'm jealous.

Some of you have met me. I'm a 6'4" overweight Dad, I mow my lawn on the weekend and take my kids to soccer practice, It's not really my style to toot my own horn, but I would be totally lying if I didn't say on the inside I feel like the coolest dude in my neighborhood right now. I'm really stoked I finished and can't believe I did it, I'm not exactly the pillar of fitness. My buddy who paid for the whole thing wanted to run the 1000 but I don't think I can with all the family responsibilities I have coming up....I'm a Dad first. I think he wants to pay for me to enter the ironman class next year, my unadjusted time we would have been second in that. It really is different to run that long vs sprinting 150 miles or so and switching riders. We will see. I could leave it alone and be done with it but it wouldn't bother me to do it again either. I wasn't sore the next day or even at the finish line. It was really fun and I am stoked to have that stupid medal.

I wish Brit was around too

Hell yeah that's awesome!!!

Great Job!!!

Sounds like you would do well in the iron man with the mind set of going for an afternoon cruise.

Congrats man! Glad that you accomplished what you set out to do!

Rhino's 500 Finish Trophy.

Its a major award.....

Rhino89523 wrote:Some of you have met me. I'm a 6'4" overweight Dad, I mow my lawn on the weekend and take my kids to soccer practice, It's not really my style to toot my own horn, but I would be totally lying if I didn't say on the inside I feel like the coolest dude in my neighborhood right now. I'm really stoked I finished and can't believe I did it, I'm not exactly the pillar of fitness. My buddy who paid for the whole thing wanted to run the 1000 but I don't think I can with all the family responsibilities I have coming up....I'm a Dad first. I think he wants to pay for me to enter the ironman class next year, my unadjusted time we would have been second in that. It really is different to run that long vs sprinting 150 miles or so and switching riders. We will see. I could leave it alone and be done with it but it wouldn't bother me to do it again either. I wasn't sore the next day or even at the finish line. It was really fun and I am stoked to have that stupid medal.

I wish Brit was around too

On ya' mate
Totally know what you mean, when I finished Finke and got my rusty old railway spike for finishing I felt like I had one the race on the inside. If your anything like me your skills and speed while doing the race will increase every time you tell any poor soul who will listen.
Cheers

Spy footage...

Damn! That's one hell of a save!

I wish I could ride that fast...but guaranteed I would not have saved it.