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just some really old videos of me riding bikes Lundi, 6 septembre 2010 Publié par Sky
Panorama back to back. Panorama had Nationals and a Canada Cup back to back weekends. I ended up staying with Cycling Bc in a condo for two weeks. The track was the same as always. Super fast and super dry. For the Nationals, they included the rocks of insanity which was a pretty gnarly rock face with some sketchy lines, but so much fun. Qualifying was on Saturday. Didn't want to push it too hard, so I just took 'er easy. Managed to qualify 4th in Junior Expert. Sunday felt good, and was confident I could do well. The race had other plans and I end up crashing three times and rolling out of nationals with a 18th place. |
During the week we all went up to kicking horse and rode the trails up there. Did I mention that they are sick? So much alpine single track and huge rock faces. Chad Hendren, Dave Hord, and I also got up at 5am and went and did a photoshoot up the mountain durring the middle of the week. Finally the Canada Cup rolled around. I tried not to over kill my body throughout the week for the race. It's just so hard when you're staying at a lift access resort, all you want to do is ride. I managed though ! The fridge became my new friend. Between 3 guys, and 2 weeks, we spent over $900 in food. Sunday morning I was first in line to get on the lift. I was actually so early I had to run off the lift at the top and grab my own bike because there was no one there to do it for me. I did my one full run, then headed right back to condo to go through a perfect run, and make sure my hands weren't going to be tired during my race run. I kept it up right the whole race. A little sketchy and slow in a couple sections, but my man goal was to not crash like I had at nationals. All worked out good for me, managed to get the hot seat, and then finished 4th by the time my category finished. Stoked ! Samedi, 4 septembre 2010 Publié par Sky
Bear Mtn 2010 I haven't been on the bike due to having a broken collar bone the past month'sh and this past weekend was the BC Cup#5. My collar bone isn't fully healed, but Panorama is coming u pretty quick and I needed to test out the wing. My father and I arrived Friday evening and registered for the race and got into out hotel. Saturday was the moment of truth. My first run didn't feel so hot, and my bike was co-operating how I wanted it to either. Farther on into the day I was feeling better and better. My collar bone was still hurting a little bit, but not enough to let me not race. After getting 6 runs in on Saturday I was feeling pretty confident in myself again and really stoked to be back in the game of bikes.
Sunday morning I was up at 6:30 packing up everything from the hotel and getting ready to head to the hill. I managed to get there by 8:04. I was on the first shuttle and didn't think the shuttle line would be that bad. I was wrong. By the time I got down from my run the shuttle line up was an hour wait. I managed to squeeze one more run in after that. My race run was at 2:20pm and the course was closed at 11am, so for the next couple hours I just hung out with some bros and went through my perfect run in my head a few times.
My race run went fairly well and had little to no mistakes. I took a few easier lines in my run to favor my collar bone, but all in all it went pretty well. I hadn't rode since Mt.Tremblant till this weekend so I was not expecting any spectacular results. I was at the finish line waiting for my category to end and I had 3rd place for the longest time behind Justin Dale and Remi Gauvin. Then Nick Grimm finished his run dropping all of us down a notch, then Linden Feniak finished his run and dropped Justin and I down a notch. I ended up finishing 5th place. Which I am more than happy with. Overall I had an awesome weekend and can't wait to hit Panorama ! |
Lundi, 5 juillet 2010 Publié par Sky
Port Alberni DH Port Alberni race is always a good one for me as it's my home town. Did two runs friday morning before work, and then shuttled all day saturday. Saturday was going good, but then started to getting too loose and crashed a couple times. My last run of saturday I ripped my jersey practically in half and managed to scrape up my back pretty darn good ! Called 'er quits after that. squeezed in 3 runs sunday morning. Hit a tree with my shoulder making me come to a dead stop pretty much, but still managed to come 3rd. Not bad for my 2nd race of the season. Lundi, 14 juin 2010 Publié par Sky
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