I was feeling good right off the start but just a few minutes in I hit the creek crossing and then started to incline and I somehow unclipped kinda digging the pedal into my ankle. Weird-lots of pain but then intense tingling sensation set in afterwards.
I kept riding thinking if I stopped I wasn't going to start again. I had some issues riding through out that generally related back to the whole left ankle situation. In the last five minutes or so on the Huffman trail, I somehow found a tree. Right handlebar then the right side of my head-not my smartest move ever. Never saw it coming, but then if I did I probably wouldn't have hit the damn tree. When I got up I was little out of it and I thought i might have broke a shifter, so I picked up this part and rode into the finished around 59 mins. My shifters and bike are fine : ) I mistaken a broken bell? from like a trek bike as a possible missing part from my shifter.
Conclusion: After this series I will move up to Sport in all MTB Races. My ankle looks multi-color now :) I got a pretty sunflower for the podium! I have little feeling in my foot-nerve issues?? But yeah I finished!
