Well I just finished up with one of the longest weekends I've had in a long time. Friday started off leaving to Fontana at 8 in the morning, arriving at the race at about 2:30 I was excited to start riding. The hill opened at 3 for practice for a couple of hours, and it went good. Got more comfortable with the bike and was feeling alright.
Saturday morning started with a good breakfast at the hotel and headed straight to the race for practice for the day. This practice session I was feeling even better and started jumping a section in the course that nobody else was doing. A hop double thing off of a rock onto the downside of the hill. It was a fun yet time saving move that I got dialed in by the time practice was over. The rest of the day consisted of walking around the pits and checking everything out, watching some XC races and pro DH practice. I was ready for the race runs to start the following morning.
Sunday morning came around quick and I was stoked to get to throw in a few practice laps and get the race run done.....I may have practiced a bit too much as I noticed my legs were pretty much dead as I walked from the shuttle truck to the start gate. I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to pedal along the wall section very good.
I sat int he start gate hoping that I would have a clean run and be able to pedal hard. Flash forward to after my race run, I crossed the finish line and my legs were on fire. As I sat there cooling down I realized that my run had been pretty dang good, no mistakes really. I missed a two lines that I would have liked to get but all in all it was a good run, but I didn't feel like it was enough to win. Surprisingly I took 3rd place, which I did not expect. So I was happy with the weekend.
On another note: Nate finished up 1st in his class, Doug took home a solid 2nd place, and Ian Keller came away with a 25th place finish in the pro class.
Pictures and links will be posted as soon as they come out!
No comments:
Post a Comment