Thursday, July 4, 2013

MTB, Skinnies and Nats

Haven't really been keeping up with this so it has been a little while since I've wrote anything. Life has been going good, I started the WORS season a little slow. I had to DNF the first race, the next 2 races were much better taking 17th overall and 1st in age group and 18th overall and 2nd in age group. Then at the 4th MTB race of the year, Cam-Rock, I ended up rolling the tire off the bead. Luckily I had a spare tub, I threw that in and got going. I was just riding and trying to have fun with it and get some good practice. That race I took 29th overall and 2nd in age group. Thats been the start to my MTB season, next week I've got the Subaru Cup. This will be the true test before nationals the following week. A lot of the people Ill be racing against at nationals will be here. So kinda a pre race for nats.  This year nats is in PA so Ill be driving out to Bear Creek Resort PA the 18th and coming home the 21st. My race is the 19-22 Cat 1 at 8am eastern time. A little early seeing how I usually race at 1:30. It'll be interesting to see how the body reacts to the high stress. Then the week after nats ill be heading out to Washington for my uncles wedding. Taking the MTB to hopefully hit up some good trails. This site is what I going off of to find them. I was hoping this season would have been going better but can't dwell in the past. Keeping things rolling and hopefully go into the end of the season still fresh and ready to rock it for Ripon college!

Then for the skinny tires, I just finished racing TOAD, Tour of Americas Dairyland. I like doing these races because they are close, fast and fun. I only raced 4 days, I finished 3 of them and go pulled in the other.  For those 3 days I finished in the main field about 30th place. For now thats good enough. But next year if things go as I hope they do, I want to upgrade to a Cat 2 and maybe race Road Nationals in Madison.  One more road race for me, the state crit championships, and thats on the 6th. That's it for now more post as the weeks go by.