Saipan, back to where it all begun

Four years ago I did my first official Xterra, it was a Tsunami year, I met the Moore's and Brown's and it took off from there.  Forward 4 years later we are back at it, adding army to the mix.  We went pre riding the course this morning and were fortunate to ride with a couple pros from Austria and one from South Africa.  This course is in my view more challenging than Guam with more single tracks and trickier section covered on coral stones.  Theses stones are so slippery when wet that it makes it impossible to ride.  Today was no exception and that section was wet.  All the other section were the same and it was nice to be riding and get used to the course again.  We took off early as the heat can be punishing but even at 830 in the morning, it was quite warm.  The temperature was showing 34 degrees at the end.  Luckily there is a nice little store where you can buy cold drinks half way through the ride.  The ride up mount Tapochou is still brutal and I'm certainly not looking forward to it on race day.  There will be time for more riding but later il go for a light run and tomorrow will be doing the famous tank to tank swim where we get to swim to some old WWII tank that got stuck during the invasion.  Stay tuned for more updates, until then, happy trails!

Carpe Diem