two nights in vegas is one too many... i just spent 7 nights and 8 days down there. highlights include:
-making a last minute decision to race the cactus cup two days before the start enven though I knew I wasn't really on point. I'm at the point in the season where you can ride all day at one speed but just don't have that top end. I am sure it was good for me to get out and race even though I felt like poo all weekend. the only time my legs felt good was in the fat tire crit and I got a side ache with five laps to go. I managed to hang on to the main group and luckily steered around a crash in the last corner and finished safely. that was my first crit of any sort and it was pretty fun. Brandon domintated the semi pros all weekend.
-working two days at the dirt demo changing pedals and setting sag for people. i was putting air in a fork on a hard tail 29er for this one guy and he goes "Hey man its a hartail how hard can it be to set up?" At that point I just gave him the bike and said have fun (jackass). He then preceded to adjust the fore and aft of his seat for a few minutes while I stood there biting my tongue. Then he took off and came back a few minutes later "Ooh party foul man- there's no bottle cage on this thing!" Hey dipshit- its a 5 minute loop.
-awesome sushi dinner on continental
-three days in Interbike. Luckily I was busy enough to pass the time pretty well during the day
-cross vegas. awesome race with a ton of people. lance was fighting it out for top 20.
-vegas trafiic
-In-N-Out burger twice. Yum.
-Riding Gooseberry Mesa on the way home saturday morning.
-Getting home!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
brian head race(s) report
after two weekends of gasping for oxygen racing my bike above 9,400 feet my lungs are feeling a little singed. no pictures unfortunately. shannon posted a good one of me on mtbracenews.blogspot.com after i talked him in to putting me on there! thanks shannon. actually i may have earned it last weekend with my first top 10 finish at a national.
lets see- some thoughts... the stage race was awesome and i am hooked on the stage race concept. it was kind of a shock to the body/mind on day two to get up and go punish myself again after a 4 hour race the day before. i wound up losing some time that day but came back on day three and managed 4th place, also solidyfing 6th overall. i was close to 5th and without the meltdown on day two think i could have been in the money. anyway, someone should put on a stage race in park city before its all private land and developed! super fun.
this past weekend it was back down to parowan/brian head to race the nmbs finals. my expectations were low because i was worn out from the stage race but i like the course there so wanted to give it a shot. i registered for the short track and xc saturday afternoon. i'm not sure why i did the short track- it was a 1 minute loop around the base lodge on pavement and dirt and they had informed me that i would not make the roll out list. oh boy. i made contact with the main group from the back row but shortly thereafter it felt like someone had put a blowtorch down my throat my lungs were burning so bad. i got pulled after 15 minutes- not soon enough!
it took a few hours for my lungs to feel normal again and i was a little worried for sunday's xc. thought i might have some sort of problem since they didn't feel like that once the entire weekend before. i think what it comes down to is that you never ride as hard as you do in a short track outside of a short track race... ever.
the xc actually went pretty well for me. i got over a mid race side ache and worked my way in to the top 10. i had a slow leak in my rear tire during the last 20 minutes but don't think it slowed me down too much. at least not as much as jeremiah bishop riding a flat tire in the single track not letting me by unless i gave him a tube. i sat behind him for too long because, well who am i to tell him to get the &%$ off of the trail. after a while ryan trebon came up behind us and did just that. he has a little more clout i guess. trebon dropped me like a bad habit in to a stiff headwind on the last road and i rolled in 9th. can't complain though- i was psyched on my first top 1o.
enough race reporting... spent sunday night in st. george to celebrate sammi's dad's 60th. got in some good recovery lounging around in the pool yesterday. i'm not going to touch a bike until saturday- hannah is coming over to visit for the weekend and we are going to take some dh runs at dv. hopefully firth can make it out.
man- that is the worlds longest most boring post. i wonder if anyone is still reading. better shut up now...
lets see- some thoughts... the stage race was awesome and i am hooked on the stage race concept. it was kind of a shock to the body/mind on day two to get up and go punish myself again after a 4 hour race the day before. i wound up losing some time that day but came back on day three and managed 4th place, also solidyfing 6th overall. i was close to 5th and without the meltdown on day two think i could have been in the money. anyway, someone should put on a stage race in park city before its all private land and developed! super fun.
this past weekend it was back down to parowan/brian head to race the nmbs finals. my expectations were low because i was worn out from the stage race but i like the course there so wanted to give it a shot. i registered for the short track and xc saturday afternoon. i'm not sure why i did the short track- it was a 1 minute loop around the base lodge on pavement and dirt and they had informed me that i would not make the roll out list. oh boy. i made contact with the main group from the back row but shortly thereafter it felt like someone had put a blowtorch down my throat my lungs were burning so bad. i got pulled after 15 minutes- not soon enough!
it took a few hours for my lungs to feel normal again and i was a little worried for sunday's xc. thought i might have some sort of problem since they didn't feel like that once the entire weekend before. i think what it comes down to is that you never ride as hard as you do in a short track outside of a short track race... ever.
the xc actually went pretty well for me. i got over a mid race side ache and worked my way in to the top 10. i had a slow leak in my rear tire during the last 20 minutes but don't think it slowed me down too much. at least not as much as jeremiah bishop riding a flat tire in the single track not letting me by unless i gave him a tube. i sat behind him for too long because, well who am i to tell him to get the &%$ off of the trail. after a while ryan trebon came up behind us and did just that. he has a little more clout i guess. trebon dropped me like a bad habit in to a stiff headwind on the last road and i rolled in 9th. can't complain though- i was psyched on my first top 1o.
enough race reporting... spent sunday night in st. george to celebrate sammi's dad's 60th. got in some good recovery lounging around in the pool yesterday. i'm not going to touch a bike until saturday- hannah is coming over to visit for the weekend and we are going to take some dh runs at dv. hopefully firth can make it out.
man- that is the worlds longest most boring post. i wonder if anyone is still reading. better shut up now...
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