Getting Ready for my 3rd trip to the USAC National...
Granby, Colorado, Sol Vista, here we come !!! I qualified by finishing 8th with a Crash at the Santa Ynez Valley Classic, that 20+ mph cross wind off that 10 foot step down really played havoc with everyone. Rreally stange that a race with roughly 130 DH racers (all catagories) would be a USAC National Qualifyer, and the Sea Otter Classic, with several hundred of the best DH riders in the country did not count as a qualifyer. Oh, well, I will take em as they come. I am really looking forward to Sol Vista, going to make it a 10 day camping trip with my wife. I want that Red Stars Jersey this year, missed it by 16 seconds at Mt Snow last year.
I don't get this sport. Over the 3 years I have been racing I see a lot of turn over, racers come and racers go. All my NorCal EVOMO Team buddies have disappeared, either moved, or changed jobs and don't ride, injured, out for the season. I am just starting to get into my prime of exeprience, every time I race at a location I had been at the year before, my times are signifigantly faster. The guy that started my in this sport seems to have fallen off the map this year, lost all his MOJO becuase of induries last year. I am sure the economy has slowed some folks down. I just don't care, this sport and the people I meet along the way are too great to give up on.
I hope to see some of you at teh Podium at Sol Vista in July. 9 weeks to go, time to turn up the volume on the training !