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B mooww.~~~~_E_~_~_S_~_~:_R_~_d_ll _ e o ~ c-r .... v ..0 S v > o Z Hawkins tries to stay dry in the lo-degree temperature so that ice won 't form on his legs as it has on the protruding tree branch in the foreground. Hrehor hot/told a fMorrison By Merle Acord "I . Runner-up Randy Hawkins (left) congratulates overall winner Jan Hrehor (right). Newly-crowned National Champion Jeff Russell said he was more concerned about staying warm than riding. He finished third overall. 18 MORRISON, IL, NOV 3 . t was a good race but too cold ," said . Czech Jan Hrehor aft er . collecting the overa ll three foot hi gh trophy for winning the Brush Poppers M.C. "Bitter End" AMA National Enduro. Randy Hawkins, the 1990 National Enduro Champion, equalled Hrehor's 28 point score but lost out at the tie breaker and fini shed second overall. The 10 degree temperature (a record low for this time of year) was accompanied by br isk winds that dropped the chill factor well below the zero mark and mad e riding the 117 mil es of frozen turf an exercise in agony. And, to compound th e frigid digit scenario, th e cold sna p froze th e ground but not the flowi n g water in the deep creek crossings. Team Suzuki's Hawkins, showing the class of a champ ion, comp limented the club: " I tho ugh t the Bush Poppers did a gret job but they can 't con trol th e weather. I had a lot of fun excep t at the start of the run. I did a big crash righ t off the start . I bent my bars and brok e my front fender off. I don't know wha t happened, if I got crossed up in a rut or wh at, It shook me up and it took a little tim e to get going again and I dropped a minute to Jan at the th ird check. We rode the same the rest of the way excep t Jan beat me at the tie-breaker." In answers to questions abou t Jan, Hawk in s said, "Jan carne over from his native Povazska Bystri ca, Czechoslovakia, seven weeks ago for Suzuki, to ride the American enduros and if he can win, he'll probably be part of their team next year. He 's going horne next Wednesday and I think we'll most likely see more of Jan next year. " Newl y cro w ne d AMA Nation al Enduro Champion Jeff Russell was tied with Hrehor and Hawkins at the sixth ch ec k with 19 points th en dropped two hot points at check five and went five to their four at check eigh t and finished three points off the pa ce for third overall. "I had a so-so ride ," said KTM 's Ru ssell, " bu t I was more interested in keeping warm than rid ing.'.' T eam Husqvama's Kelly Getz said, " I froze my butt off. It was a good run but too cold. I don 't care tha t much abo ut rid in g th e road anyway but today it was pure misery. We were abl e to sta y on tim e excep t for check three and four . They had three resets and that got us back on tim e and made th eir hot checks work ." Getz fini shed fourth overall. T eam Green 's J eff Fredette also dropped 31 points and wen t to the tiebreaker with Getz and Ru ssell. Fredett e who was fifth , said , " Brrrrl The hard sections toda y were the com fields. They were frozen and slick with zero trac tion. If you got crossed up you fell down. Som e of th e areas, because th e fr ost isn 't deep ye t, were broken through and the traction was good but there weren 't too many of those. I don 't think an ear ly or late number mad e that much difference toda y." . The' cold weather laments stopped with T eam Husky's Bill And ersson. " It 's not so bad," said Sweden 's ISDE World Trophy Team member when asked abo ut the weath er. Andersson rod e a 610 four-strok e to the HighPoint A circle an d si xth ove ra ll. Andersson also rode hi s machine from th e m otel (20 m il es) to the club .grounds. When asked why , he said, " It