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Nap time! Or not...

25 Hours of Frog Hollow. The longest one day mountain bike race and a good party (although if it's not held over time change, is it really one day?) Pit Boss and Leader finally got to race their   favorite style of NASCAR relay racing - taking on the duo teams and holding no quarter at least until it was time to stop.  Pot Boss was given the La Mans start due to Leader's inability to run. And generally because he's faster and the guys almost always start... And fast he was, coming in to transition in the top five riders. Leader hobbled to her bike and started pedaling her first lap. Windy as $h1t, making passing wheels very attractive and dusty as h€11, greatly diminishing the attractiveness of that draft. Neither of those two facts would change during the race. The wind would ebb and flow, playing riders for fools as it died down in town only to come roaring back moments after leaving for a lap. As for the dust, well that just got worse and worse, coating everything in bro