Hey I was there

At the race.

That was not my happiest moment. G-ride was schooling me on that downhill twisty stuff. Hell even Matt 'I haven't raced cross since 2005' Wilson was going better down that than i was. So i guess maybe my "skilz" really aren't all that great. Of course G-ride was on Cubus buzzsaw tubulars running 20 psi less pressure and Matt has forgotten more about racing that I've learned...

So I come out of the corner. I really don't remember which lap, one of the latter ones. Where G-ride rode up with Dan Coady and Onion River guy and dropped me and Matt... But I was hurting. Back hurt, legs weren't responding. I was deep in the wow does this hurt sort of realm. Definitely this was one of those hitting yourself in the head races. It felt so good to stop. I looked up and before the clip started I knew that Henry was standing there with his video Camera. "Oh Boy, don't fuck this up G" ran through my head. Smoooooth he's following you with the camera... It wasn't pretty, it wasn't fast, and it wasn't a perfect sequence. BUT i didn't eat shit/crash or do anything stupid like that.

for the first part of the race i was putting good time into Matt on the logs "run up" by not dismounting. ONE DISMOUNT per LAP? seriously. Both day. I got off the bike a total of 9 or 10 times this weekend (i think only 9 because we did 5 laps each day and I got lapped on day 2 or we did 6 on day two and I did 5). Riding those logs was faster. Matt was just making up time on me in the next couple of sections. Course was sort of kind of wicked Hard. HARD.

Like I want a training race to be. 40-50 minutes of non-stop torture focusing on what I don't do well (riding a bike fast).