I kept trying to tell myself that I
wasn't tired and to keep going no
matter what. A couple of lap riders
were in my way, but it gave me an
opportunity to scope out new lines,
so I was pretty happy about that."
"The course was dry and dusty
but super fun; perfect mixture of
fast stuff and hard stuff," said
Bolopue. "We ended up having
some lap traffic and had to take
some lines we didn't take on the
first lap. I tried something and
didn't make it, so I lost a little bit
of time [on Flynn]. Near the last
half of the race, I just started to
run out of gas [laughs]."
Third place was a battle
between Nick Fahringer and
Hayden Mosa. Mosa found him
-
self behind a lap rider as he set
up for a hillclimb; Fahringer took
advantage of the situation and
pushed past both riders, mus
-
cling his way up the hill and ran
away with third place.
Mosa got back on pace but,
unfortunately for him, he had
made some decisions on his
tire setup that didn't quite work
in his favor. Shortly after getting
passed by Fahringer, Mosa real
-
ized the mousse in his rear tire
had completely disintegrated. He
was able to keep a hold of fourth
place to the checkers.
"I'm not much of a morning
person, but once we got past
noon, I was ready to roll," joked
Fahringer. "I had a midpack start,
then worked my way into second.
We got to the bottom of a hillclimb
section, and I got too deep into
a bad line and lost three spots.
A good technical section later, I
made two passes, then in one of
the new Pro hills, I passed Hayden
in a bottleneck. I could tell he was
not happy, but I made a clean
pass and just rolled with it."
Rounding out the top five was
Champion Brick's Tobin Miller,
whose finish was his career-best
in the USHE series.
The USHE East Hard Enduro
series will continue October 12
with the Mad Moose Hard En
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duro in Marquette, Michigan.
Matt Musgrove
OVERALL (Top 10)
1. James Flynn (Bet)
2. Logan Bolopue (She)
3. Nick Fahringer (She)
4. Hayden Mosa (Rei)
5. Tobin Miller (KTM)
6. Maverik Thaxton (KTM)
7. Coran Calvert (She)
8. Mark Fortner (Bet)
9. Leiber Ponce (KTM)
10. Ayden Marinchek (KTM)
WIND
IN THE
P64
Sherco pilot Logan
Bolopue pressured
Flynn early on en
route to second
overall.
Nick Fahringer
completed the Lightning
Strikes podium.
