Prayers

What ever that word means to you, send some out to THE nicest, most sincere, most incredible father, husband, planet crusader, and bike racer...

Yogurt boy went down on the barriers at Dayville. Matt's just flat out one of the toughest guys out there, but he is also one of the most focused and well prioritized humans you will ever have a chance to know/meet.

Those barriers that almost caught me on a pre-ride lap. The barriers with caution tape on the edges and the only indication that they were sitting there in the shadows were two low level flood lamps. It was sort of a barn, covered bridge type affair. The barriers were a few feet inside, in the shadow. No chance of really having good vision going into them. None if you had tinted glasses on. I cam flying in hot and heavy winding it up. There was a similar "structure" after the sand pit with nothing inside, so i assumed same... the lights triggered the last second oh shit slow. In the race, not a problem, but i'm like kinda freakin tall. To be a "hurdle" for me the stuff would need to be 2x the height. As it was i came in, made a pass on Bill D as he was going through them and i one stepped it inbetween. Flying in, on step in between the barriers. It was really really cool, until i found myself over-geared going into the right hander after that. That kinda sucked.

I fought it out and finished just behind Bill for 4th. It was a small field, but not the smallest of the day. And from the word on the street - Brockton was transformed from a MTB-cross race to a Crit-cross race. Dayville was the ideal course for me, techincal lines that demanded respect, high speed barrier, long steep run up, good roadie power section. I finally nailed the line and Bill was sitting in behind me and said "nice line geoff" that was cool... THAT fired me up, fed a few more heaps of coal in the furnace. When i over geared and bogged down? That closed the dampers a bit. Thanks for yellin out there Zank!

Canton was fun to head up as a spectator. Didn't see much of the racing, but it was good to see folks and chat for a few.

Oh and finally. The bike needed to be cleaned after a race. I got to race in sloppy wet conditions... it was intensely fun.

And now that the sox have won we can all go back to getting some rest!
peace
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