Well this race went a little bit better than the last one.Showed up around 9 got 2 practice runs in and on the last one i ate crap and popped my tire and bent my derailer...i ended up carrying my bike back to the truck where we got it fixed....but i had to race unable to shift haha....but all in all it was fun and i ended up getting 4th place! out of 15

Well I had my first downhill race on Sunday, January 11th 2009 in the Southridge series in Fontana. Practice runs went well on the downhill i mean the course wasn't gnarly by any means, just wish washy. Well the race came and i was haulin balls down the downhill....doin good and then out of the blew my bike just kicked out to the side (Wierd) on a section i had no problem with in practice. I went down faceplant and when i got back up my bars were all out of wack so i had to fix them (took about 20 seconds all said and done). My good friend Roy got 3rd place with a time of 2:44 and well i got a time of 3:04...so that crash costed me a shot at the podium! It still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.......