Flyin' Brian Super D, yet another 1st
Brian Head is always a great race. We used the same popular course as last year with the exception of the option to launch a 10 foot drop, go around it or take the single track wide around the outside (slowest option). I practiced the drop but at speed I was almost landing to flat. The transition was great, but you had to scrub a ton of speed to hit it and actually land on the backside instead of on the flat.
Once again the upper section was cardio hell. This race starts right at 11000 feet and you can feel it. Brian Head's been getting a ton of rain and it seems like most of the top soil has been erroded leaving a pile of rocks on any trail. Even little, easy Color Country took a gash out of my bashguard.
Not a lot of trail maintenance has been going on up there so everything was rough. To Brian Head's credit they added a couple of berms and on Timberline and some new stunts on another trail we didn't use.
Anyway, this race puts me 4 out of 4 First Places. I missed Wyoming so that will be the event I have nixed for the overall. Just need a First at Sundance and I'm golden. Until then.....