It’s a little after 2 am and I’m just back and unpacked from the 60 mile MTB race today on the Berryman Trail in Mark Twain National Forest, southwest of St. Louis a couple hours. It is in a beautiful setting. Other than my left hand, the rest of my body is pretty mad at me and thus, rebelling. I’m toast. The results were very surprising. I won the race. There was an enormous amount of effort, physical and mental. I would very much like to sleep until noon, but that doesn’t really work any more. Maybe I’ll get lucky and sleep until 10. I’ll get to the specifics later today I hope.

Some of the spoils.

Full Results
Result
1 Niels Albert (Bel) BKCP – Powerplus 1:08:26
2 Klaas Vantornout (Bel) Sunweb-Revor 0:00:36
3 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) Sunweb-Revor 0:00:45
4 Tom Meeusen (Bel) Telenet – Fidea 0:00:54
5 Bart Wellens (Bel) Telenet – Fidea 0:01:09
6 Sven Nys (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-KDL 0:01:31
7 Bart Aernouts (Bel) AA Drink Cyclocross Team 0:02:14
8 Francis Mourey (Fra) FDJ-BigMat 0:02:45
9 Thijs van Amerongen (Ned) AA Drink Cyclocross Team 0:02:58
10 Julien Taramarcaz (Swi) BMC Mountainbike Racing Team 0:03:04
11 Enrico Franzoi (Ita) Selle Italia-Guerciotti-Elite 0:03:12
12 Dieter Vanthourenhout (Bel) BKCP – Powerplus 0:03:21
13 Gerben de Knegt (Ned) Orange Babies Cycling Team 0:03:27
14 Radomir Simunek (Cze) BKCP – Powerplus 0:03:45
15 Egoitz Murgoitio Rekalde (Spa) Grupo Hiremet Taldea 0:03:50
16 Twan van den Brand (Ned) Orange Babies Cycling Team 0:04:03
17 Jim Aernouts (Bel) Sunweb-Revor 0:04:15
18 Thijs Al (Ned) Telenet – Fidea 0:04:22
19 Marcel Wildhaber (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB Racing Team 0:04:28
20 Niels Wubben (Ned) Rabobank-Giant Off-Road Team 0:04:44