Snake Creek TT Suckfest

Well approximately 2yrs, two deployments and several races later I returned to the place that I keep telling myself I am never coming back to - Snake Creek TT. Weather conditions were outstanding the weather channel hit it right on the head except the part about it raining all night the night before and being misty and raining all morning. Well morning of was decision time as far as apparel went since it was 44 degrees out and suppose to get warmer I went with the leg and arm warmers and left the foot warmers in the bag. What I should have done is sprayed my entire bike down with Pam no stick so the mud would shed off. Had a good drive up to the start with Monti and Chad and a couple other guys were I decided to go with Monti's idea of getting a early start before the other 250 riders who would be tearing up the trail ahead of me, well since they would all pass me by the 17 mile mark it really didn't matter to much.
I lined up with Jesse at the start and hung with him for about the first two miles and then away he went. After the first water crossing the feet were soaked all the way through. The weather not only made the trail into soup the humidity kept fogging up my glasses so I couldn't see worth s$!t so in the interest of time I just kept them off for the most part. I had decided to run the IRC Trail Bear 2.25 tires on the bike, this turned out to be a good idea for the most part since the trail was in such bad conditions they gave me grip in areas I would have probably spun out in with other tires. In the rock garden it was a different story the rocks were so slick that the tread was too tall to hold it just slipped. Either way was a good and bad thing depending on where I was on the trail for the most part it was a good thing.
To add to the list of issues somewhere in the first 7 miles or so I broke a clip off the right pedal so the cleat wouldn't clip in correctly. I went over a few rollers going downhill with my foot slipping around until I figured out I had to rotate the clip to one side to get clipped in. On a good note the energy product I was trying called Enervitene seemed to work really well. Especially on that hill right at the start of the second 17 miles I was able to pedal my way up that with some pretty good consistency.
Overall it was the same suckfest I had forgotten about two years earlier only worse with the weather included. I was about 15min slower this time than I was in the previous TT I completed. There is something about this trail that I just have to keep trying, it is the only trail I have ridden out here that I don't feel like I have come away going I did it right. I leave here feeling like it kicked my A$$ every time and so I have to keep coming back until I at least don't feel like I started Mountain Biking the day before I arrived there! So while I still HATE this trail and will tell anybody who ask the fact it is the toughest challenge I can think of including ORAMM. So I will continue to return until I have accomplished the goal of having a Good Ride at the Snake Creek TT. So until that time I Will See You on the Trail!