Slackin
So the last time i posted i was saying how i was going to Parker for the road race. well.......that didn't go so well. I felt great, bike was all set to go and the field took off. I was around top 10 the whole time until my "incident". The course consisted of many rollers. It really reminded me of the T-day nighter back in A-Town. Everything was going fine until we hit the back side of the course. 55mph cross winds were insane! We the echeloned across the road. I had was i thought was the best seat in the house with a 6ft 200lb guy blocking for me. I mean no wind was hitting me where i was. However when someone attacked the cut over to the side that everyone was echeloned across, this cause everyone getting on his wheel to move over. Well sure enough that awesome draft i had started moving over.....and over...and over.....and now im in the ditch. I mean ditch. This was a mini gully. We were going pretty fast but somehow i managed to keep myself upright, my bike on the other hand took a little tumble. I got myself back on the road and chased, teetering about 50 yards behind. The winds got the best of me and i couldn't get back on. Riding back to the car i was pretty pissed. Entry fee, drive time, money ll down the drain. I get home and i have a flat on my tubi as well. great!
Well i redeemed myself to some degree by getting up at 5:30 with Bryan to go to the mtn bike race in nomans land. On the way there we went through Fairplay to see a temperature of 22 degrees! we raced in 47 degree weather, it warmed up a significant amount but was still cold. First lap was pretty interesting. Ft. Lewis guys put something like 12 guys in the mens A race and started it by putting 8 of them in a train for the start. They throttled it and i was hanging on alright until my nose started running real bad. I mean i thought i had a lot of snot coming out! That was until i looked down to see red droplets falling at record pace from my nose. i stopped at the feed zone now almost dead last to plug my nose up. I finished the race 16th out of something like 35 or so from what im told. Alright but id like to think i could have gotten top ten again. It was good to see noah again, the whole ft. L team were pretty dominant this race but Bryan hung in there to represent with a 4th place. After the race the team ate and me and Bryan got our Buck Hunter Pro on. that game rocks!
Well sry no pics but i got kinda lazy. Ill post something fun soon.
holla.
Well i redeemed myself to some degree by getting up at 5:30 with Bryan to go to the mtn bike race in nomans land. On the way there we went through Fairplay to see a temperature of 22 degrees! we raced in 47 degree weather, it warmed up a significant amount but was still cold. First lap was pretty interesting. Ft. Lewis guys put something like 12 guys in the mens A race and started it by putting 8 of them in a train for the start. They throttled it and i was hanging on alright until my nose started running real bad. I mean i thought i had a lot of snot coming out! That was until i looked down to see red droplets falling at record pace from my nose. i stopped at the feed zone now almost dead last to plug my nose up. I finished the race 16th out of something like 35 or so from what im told. Alright but id like to think i could have gotten top ten again. It was good to see noah again, the whole ft. L team were pretty dominant this race but Bryan hung in there to represent with a 4th place. After the race the team ate and me and Bryan got our Buck Hunter Pro on. that game rocks!
Well sry no pics but i got kinda lazy. Ill post something fun soon.
holla.
posted by blakeharlan at 10:32 AM
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