"I really wasn't planning to go that early, but I had a gap coming out of the [ranch's] field, and I decided to go from there, and yeah, it was a long day by myself."
"A lot of our day to day focus, and what we see as SEVEN is all in the build towards the World Championships. They are in alignment, so our day to day focus is really the World Championships, which is carrying SEVEN along with it," said race director Stephen Gallagher.
"The King Ridge Grasshopper was my first enduro-style event, so I was excited to try something new. The hard steep climbs were rewarded with spectacular views of the Sonoma coast."
I broke my wheel about 150 km in so that was it, day done. The wheel, it was unridable, so I got a lift from a local guy out there who was headed back to town and then tracked down the crew.
Johnston emphasized the satisfaction of continuous improvement, stating, "I feel like I can continue to get better every year in that scene. I learn more and more every race."
"While continuing to devote a significant prize allocation to the series itself, we felt the time was right to offer additional prize money at each of the six races comprising the series," Kimo Seymour, Life Time President Media & Events said in a statement. "This will enable us to attract a competitive, global field of top athletes and to further grow the sport domestically."
