Henry entered into his first bike race, Bike Cochrane's Angry Hawks Enduro Race.
Here is the proof and the fun of it.
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Signage for our race sponsors.
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My F250 Camry utility vehicle being used to move bike racks back to Buffalo Bean for the race.
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Bike racks in position and ready for action.
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Natalia making candy bags.
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Natalia got co-opted into making candy bags for the racers. Of course, she LOVES this
kind of stuff - see Hallowe'en at our house.
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Race tents in position and getting ready for racers to arrive and check in. We looked legit!
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Ryan and I screwed up in registering Henry as I forgot to assign his age and Ryan thought he was 9.
But it didn't matter as he got his race plate and he was jacked.
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So was Henry's friend Ty who we were super thrilled was able to make the race.
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Big Hill spent the morning helping kids tune up their bikes and Tim hugely helped out Ty in getting
his bike ready for the day.
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The boys with our race arch - big thanks to Richelle who brought this, a generator, and many other
things to make this race feel more legit.
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Ryan made this podium with wood that Colin R had cut for us. Henry and Ty checked it out the morning
of the race.
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Starting to arrive and fill up with people.
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Bike racks almost full already, which was awesome.
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Ty and Henry, excited and nervous for their first race.
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Big bikers!
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Ryan getting a big shout out from Richelle for making this race happen.
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The kids getting ready to race and a view of how many kids were here. We had ~80 kids registered
and had plates, along with a number of toddler kids too.
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Henry and Ty getting ready to race.
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Graham brought the whole family in for the race and Fisher got to do his first race ever.
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Henry, Ty, and Fisher waiting for the start.
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Me, riding with Buffalo Beans in bloom.
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Henry and I at the race.
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We had a bit of a bottleneck at the start of stage 1. In retrospect, we could have started the big
kids on stages 3 and 4, but we'll know that for next time.
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Sponsor sign at the start of stage 2.
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Looking down at the start of stage 1.
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Beard tongue found above stage 1 as I went to water plants.
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Henry doing the first stage. He asked me to ride with him so I naturally did just that.
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Coming down the switch backs.
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Henry's friend Ty finishing stage 1.
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Henry and Ty starting stage 2.
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Henry and I at the top of stage 2.
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Henry getting ripping down stage 2.
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Ty coming down the bottom of stage 2 with all of our Buffalo Beans in bloom.
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Ty at the finish line.
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I told the boys they could crush their candy bags after stage 2, which they promptly did.
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And then, they went right back up for stages 3 and 4.
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Top of Angry Hawk and ready for the last stage.
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Ryan's mom made cookies and Ryan got medals made for all of the kids. Look at these smiles.
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And on the podium too.
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Fisher was our last racer to come in, which I think was quite an effort on Graham's part to
get him all the way through the course.
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Bottom of Buffalo Junior.
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Last berms to finish.
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Fisher was a trooper and kept going all day.
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The bigger kids helped all of the little guys by both encouraging them and also in some cases
pulling them up to the latter stages by Tow-whee straps.
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Fisher's last gasp to finish.
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Ryan got a hold of the microphone as Fisher was coming in and declared him to be our Heart of the Race
winner. Fisher was so excited to win a medal and a cookie, but he also won a camelback for being our
heart of the race. Graham later told me that Fisher refused to take it off and even slept with it that
night. Graham said that Fisher had to pee about 300 times the next day since he just kept it on his
back the entire day and kept drinking from it.
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Fisher's new camelback.
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Henry also got a big surprise after the race as Graham's bike shop fixed him up a new 24" Norco,
which honestly Henry should have already been on. Henry was so excited and just kept saying 'AWESOME!'
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8 of the top 10 finishers.
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Henry and I riding stage 2 at Angry Hawk.
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Henry and I coming through stage 2.
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Racers lining up for the race.
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Henry starting out on the race course. In Enduro, the downhills are timed, but not the uphills.
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