Sunday, July 13, 2008

rainy days

I went out today and rode the mtb at valley falls. This was the first time i have rode my mtb in over a month since the epic ride to bb and the first time out to valley falls since may. The race is coming up next week there but i'm not racing ( got the family reunion to go to on sunday). I rode out from my house and as soon as i was riding around rock lake it just started pouring the rain down, i just kept on riding. Riding in the rain on the trails reminded me of racing back in the junior days when it didn't matter what was going on it was just being out and riding. Anyways had a blast and just rode a variety of trails. Probably close to 30 miles in 3:30. Hope to get out more on the mtb this week it was a blast.

The collective released the new video "seasons" last month and i got a copy of it. It follows riders through the seasons and has some really good video and music. Most of it is up on youtube, search for seasons.

This past winter I did some training for the pond jump at the appalachian classic. I ended up having to work that weekend but here is the video of my backflip.

summer catch-up



Welcome all!
Summer has been going fast! I took my final final ever on May 9th, then busted it to get down to massanutten VA for the yee-ha dh race. Little practice time on sat morning but still ended up with 7th in expert 19-29. Next adventure was memorial day weekend. I went down to snowshoe with jonny and chuck for the day and did a ton of runs. They had the western lift running so it was nonstop all day. Sunday was a race at wisp, it was a non-mac race and there was the us open at Diablo so the turnout was not the best. The day turned out good for me and chuck getting 1st and 2nd overall.


I got the weekend of 24 hours at bb off at work and headed up to big bear to check it out. It worked out great because amber wanted to go up but had to work. So I hopped on the mountain bike and rode up from Fairmont. 50 some miles later I arrived at big bear and hung out with some friends and heckled on the racers. The capitol cup was my next weekend off. It was a huge race since it was a gravity east event and drew over 100 racers. It was a combined time of 2 courses on 2 different days. Saturday I went up solo, got in some p ractice runs and ended up getting 4th. Sunday chuck rode up with me, got in some more practice for Sundays race and ended up with 3rd and 3rd overall for the event in the expert 29-29 class. I took this july 4th weekend off and headed down to Seneca rocks for some rest. I did a great ride on Saturday heading down to see chuck who was supposedly camping but bailed when it started raining. It was still a great ride on some back roads down in the mountains.
Outside of all of this I have been working a ton I think 38 hours/week was the least I worked since school was out. Spending time with amber and trying to keep up around home. I got a garden that I have been working on (more pics later). Also been trying to do as much riding as possible when I got time. I met up with a new group of guys that ride around Fairmont http://www.fairmontflyers.com/ and they keep me motivated to ride my road bike. I need to go on a mtb ride soon though. I started rotations last week. This month i am at rational drug therapy which deals with insurances.




Pics from capitol cup weekend: