Oakridge 24 and a Broken Pedal!

Here is the race report from the Oakridge 24 hr Race...

Well Roger and I took off Friday morning for Eugene. We were pretty proud of ourselves for getting our two-person kayak on top of my car and then Roger's one person kayak inside the Explorer - very impressive. We meet up with Jared and then headed off to Oakridge. We checked in and then headed back to Jared's for some great pasta and some entertainment from Boden. Saturday we set off back to Oakridge. For the start of the race, we were driven up about 40 miles up near June Lake and the North Fork of the Willamete river. The start of the race had everyone run out to June Lake - pick up maps and passports and then head back to our bikes. Once on our bikes, we started a truely epic singletrack ride along the Willamete River. I am guessing the bike leg was around 35+ miles. To start the leg, Roger quickly realized that he front shocks were toast - thus over every bump, he would bottom out. This became a real problem as the singletrack was pretty technical. Roger did a couple of pretty epic endos as his front shock would compress and stay compressed - sending him over the handlebars. On one step switchback, I came to all that I could see was Roger's bike upside down in some trees - No Roger. I peered down the end of the steep turn and there was Roger - in a heap cramping up! However the bike issues soon migrated over to myself as somehow I damage one of my pedals. my clip-in point was completely managled, thus I could not clip in. This was not much fun as my foot kept popping out causing great frustration.