1st Race over! Its always a trip after a long Winter break to come back to Sea Otter for the first race of the season.. its like a shock to the system when all of a sudden you are put back into the stresses of racing and getting bikes together! I always seem to have bikes to build every year no matter how hard I try to get bikes early…it never works out..
Anyways this year my bikes look!… pretty good I must say but they are definitely on the border of being a chicks bike… but I think they are just a little Metro Sexual that’s all!
Slalom bike looks really good!
The Slalom wasn’t to bad this year. They had changed it a little bit from previous years but due to the hot and dry weather we were having the berms were filling up with soft sand and my tire cuts which work really well in the muddy terrain of the South East didn’t help to much in the soft to hard loose terrain and I was struggling to keep under control a lot of the time.. so in the end I clipped a hay bail with my knee and failed to qualify.. bugga.
Down hill was no better really!
After not qualifying for Slalom I was determined to do well for the DH and that morning I had the bike feeling pretty good! I also felt really strong from all the training I have been doing with Carmichael Training.
I was at the top warming up and I felt good in my little sprints to get the legs warmed up for some serious beatings.
I was lined up in the gate.. 3..2..1 and I was off!!!…. Bang! chain is gone.. maybe I had to much horse power there because for the first time I had managed to break a brand new SRAM chain.. I was pretty dissapointed and had a really easy ride to the bottom.. nothing special.. So all together I had a very boring Sea Otter this year! Maybe next year I will do better. Its just never a good thing when you are on a super tight budget like I’m on to spend so much for a race you didn’t get to race.
Oh well you can never let these things bother you.
We will see you at the next race..! probably US Open right now!
See ya
Cheers
Posted by gerittb 