Cracked tooth blown fork race

It was with some trepidation that I prepared for this year's Pickett's Charge race in Bend. My race bike was spending time in the shop, as its fork had been releasing copious amounts of oil, causing it to bottom out and otherwise generally malfunction. Additionally, there was a recall on part of the rear shock linkage, and it was recommended not to ride it until the manufacturors had remedied the situation. So I resurrected the old 31-pound Giant VT full suspension, and slapped some well-worn racing semi-slicks on to give it some decent acceleration (and consequent limited traction and braking). Seemed to work OK in test rides, though felt a mite skittish.
Then next bit of misery had to do with the teeth in my head, not on my chainrings. One had been paining me here and there for years, so finally decided to get some crown work done on it on Tuesday before the race. But this backfired, as it flaired up in major pain afterwards. Two more trips to the dentist that week, along with various prescriptions to kill the pain/inflamation. So cranky all week, and couldn't ride much as blood flow exacerbated the pain. Observed that increasing my alcohol intake to 4+ a night helped assuage the pain, however that probably wasn't going to make me any faster on Sunday. Then Saturday, after starting some new high dose adrenal inflammatory depressant drug, went to the gym to languidly move some pieces of metal around, and yanked something in my shoulder.
So started the race Sunday in pretty bad shape, with a bike I know is slower than my race bike, a throbbing toothache, and an ailing shoulder. But the upside of this is that I was totally relaxed, and didn't give a shit how I did.
The gun went off, and I nosed into the dust cloud created by the front pack. Actually the dust bowl effect wasn't that bad, having been mitigated somewhat by thundershowers the previous evening. The first of 2 20 mile laps went by rather quickly. Felt great and noticed my split time was good, even with the CIA technical section they added this year. Was having a blast - full suspension just plain makes racing more fun. Not much to report on this race : temps were great, no controversies, racers very courteous and allowing people to pass. Had a good surge at the end, and passed a couple people on the downhill, which is rare.