This past week was the first full weekend of riding that I have had in a long time! Chris Herndon and I went for a 2 hour XC ride up in Pisgah national forest along with fast XC collegiate rider Tristan Cowie.
It was such a perfect day that I thought I would need to blog all about it. The leaves are finally turning bright yellow and red and the weather was just perfect not to cold and not to hot! It was sunny all day long.
The only thing that kind of put a hold on the fast downhill sections were (in Family Guy terms) ” Leafers”
These are out of towners who come up to the mountains to watch the leafs turn their bright colours of red and yellow… so we were always on the watch out for people hiking slowly. Amazingly we managed not to piss any of the hikers off.
The XC ride was great and after a great meal at the Hawg Wild BBQ spot we went to this secret pump track that Chris made up and is local only! It was pretty awesome!! it was one of Chris Herndons many great tracks that he had built and was shaped in a almost hexagon!?… very cool and made for some great line choices!
The next day I got up early picked up Chris and headed off to Banner Elk where the Collegiate nationals are to be held this coming weekend.
Chris had spent a number of days building and working on a new Slalom track for the race.
We had a ton of College riders who all came out to train on the new slalom track.
I brought out with me the Free Lap Timing system that everybody was pretty happy about!…
At first none of them were sure how it would help them but slowly they all started to notice the difference that it made for them so it made me feel good that I had somehow contributed towards some possible wins!
Chris and myself had a couple of races just to inspire them to go fast… I had fun just scrubbing the one big hump into the big berms! so sick…
So ya it was a good weekend of riding and so far been the only good weekend of harder riding since my shoulder injury!.
Check out the pics… there aren’t a lot but some good ones.
Cheers….
