Racing and having fun
We have been trying to race as much as we can this summer, there are so many races here on the East coast its tough to make it to all the mountains.
I raced Dual Slalom and DH at Highland the weekend of the 12th and the courses were great. The new dual slalom course is one of the best courses I have ever raced. I was first in DS and the DH. While we were at Highland one of our friends offered my mom and I a chance to fly to Colorado for the National Championship. It was so nice of them and my Mom was so excited to travel out west, so we said yes and thank you, of course!
Colorado was so much fun and beautiful scenery - we hung out with Kirt, Lindsey , Travis and the Allride Academy everyone is so supportive, thank you! My 13-14 year old group was pretty big it was good to see so many kids racing! I wanted a clean solid race run and my Santa Cruz V-10 delivered the goods - Travis spent so much time dialing in my bike for me - I am so thankful for all his hard work. Thanks to Kirt, Lindsey, Santa Cruz Bicycles, Sram, MRP, WTB, DT Swiss, POC, Deity and all my teammates from the Allride Academy.
Once my race run was done we jumped on a plane Saturday back to Boston and drove to Bartlett NH to race in the DH GES at Attitash. We got to Bartlett at 4:00am slept for 2 hours then put my bike together, put on my gear and started practice - i was really having fun on this course and the weather was perfect. I won the Cat 1 18 and Under race, but really had a great time riding and racing with my friends.
We had a crazy week/weekend that I will remember for a long time to come - Thank you to our friends for making this happen for me!
Again thanks to Kirt, Lindsey, Santa Cruz Bicycles, Sram, MRP, WTB, DT Swiss, Fox, POC, Deity and all my teammates from the Allride Academy.
Richie