66.6666666% Podium Domination

Greetings, loyal Team Seagal fan. Great news awaits you! This past weekends 2 teams of 2 soldiers each entered into an epic battle of our lives at Landahl State Park, in the Rapture in Misery 6/12 Hour race. The competition was fierce. The trail was even more fierce - to our hands, minds, and taints. Mason Storm/Casey Ryback and Nico Toscani/Dr. Wesley McLaren eye-of-the-tiger'ed all that way to 2nd and 3rd place, respectively, in the Duo Open class. Our first official Podium! Now sit back while I tell you a tale.

We all were pulling 2 laps on, 2 laps off in the most humid conditions known to man, in order to make breaks a little more worthwhile. Bratburgers were punished quite handily, and may PBRs were crushed throughout the course of the weekend. I think a further pat on the back is in order to Dr. Wesley McLaren and Nico Toscani for pulling their first night laps in race setting - that is, their first night riding experience ever. The presence of the Destroyers was conspicuously absent... Something that was present though, was an amazing french press that fits nicely into a Nalgene bottle; talk about the best part of waking up.

Mason Storm was found to have done an extreme makeover on his mustache I believe that his Power has increased by an unquantifiable amount. Here he is holding one of the name-tags that Nico Toscani had prepared for each of us!


This is what you would see if we were passing you. Or if you were about to pass one of us. Picture taken at the riders meeting.




If you look closely, you'll see a classic Seagal glower:





In a perfect case of "so weirdly coincidental that I couldn't have ever planned it," a team came and set up camp RIGHT NEXT TO US with an oddly similar theme. It was their first race ever. Can you believe this?


Here's the money shot!


The last few are courtesy of DRJ:




Congrats to Chris, Bob and Wes for putting in a battle of epic proportions, and pulling out the win in 3 Man Superfast in most dramatic form! Welcome back, Ploch!


Many other stories are to be told - just ask us! Tons of fun, and now are even more excited for the 24 Hours of Landahl and the Burnin' at the Bluff - both of which we all hope will increase exponentially in size this year! Get some towels ready to mop up your soon-to-be-melted face!

-C. Ryback