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A couple months ago, our good friend Jay Aument gave us a ring, and wanted to know if we wanted to join him and his girlfriend Diana in a 24-hour mountain bike race (the Ford 24-hour Champion Challenge at Seven Springs, PA). Jay assured us that there were no performance expectations (we hadn’t been on mountain bikes in years), and that we’d all just be out for a good time.

We were not disappointed. Diana’s friend Jean joined us on the team, making it five of us to split the 24 hours, which makes things much easier. Jean’s partner Kristen and friend Joyce came along too. Wow, what a group. These people are the bomb. We had an absolute blast the whole time. Basically, it seemed like a lot of partying and having as much fun as possible, interspersed with some rough mountain biking.

The course pretty tough for us! Really technical, but Jay, Diana, and Jean all had good advice and coaching for us that really helped out. I feel like I learned a ton in the process. No major injuries on our team, which was a big plus (although I did take some chunks out of my arm and got some road rash trying to make up for lost training time the week before).

We’ve got to figure some other event that we can do with this group. It was way too much fun not to put together something else with them. Here are some of the better pictures from the weekend.