So for some dumb ass reason I decided it would be a good idea to race in CALI yo this weekend. I guess it wasn't a complete poop face idea considering there is still re-donkulouse amounts of snow in Durango and the fact that I was able to rip up Sedona for a day. Speaking of Sedona that place rips, I want to move there and meet it's parents and start a family. I love Sedona. The trails that is not the actual town, not much is really going on down there but that doesn't really matter cause the trails are so sweet.
Enough about Sedona, on to the race and the epic drive down there. The drive down was a long one complete with sweet car crashes consisting of squished pick up trucks and other cars strewn across the highway, and tons of singing along to Miley Cyrus and Akon. I never normally listen to that type of music but for some reason I turn into a 16 year old girl when I am on road trips and I sing "Party in the USA" to the top of my lungs along with my CO-Pilot Chad who also enjoys a good Miley jam sesh. Since he is the Co-Pilot hes the DJ. I want to see a video of us driving someday. Back to the story at hand we made it to Phoenix, our first stop. We met up with one of his athletes (Matt) that he coaches and stayed at his house for a 2 nights before we made the epic journey to San Diego. We took Matt's car to San Diego all I am gonna say is that he has an XB or the X box we like to call it and that thing sucks for road trips. The speed O lies it took us like 8 hrs to get to San diego when in theory it should take 5.5 hrs at most. Once we got to Saint Diego it was dumping rain I thought we were going to have to convert the X box into an Ark. So we didn't get a preride in awww shucks. It's better that way because if I rode the course before I raced it I don't think I would have lined up the next day.
I don't know why everyone in Cali says this course is awesome because it is a super lame road race on mtbs. I started off slow like usual and pretty much stayed that way to the finish. It's the first race of the year so I was expecting that to happen but not really to that level of suckynessnesses. In the end I finished up in 6th a whopping 8 minutes back on Sid. I needs to start training so I don't embarass myself or the east coast too much.
The drive back went by a little quicker, the X box was running strong and it took us just 7 hrs to get back to Phoenix. One thing that made the trip go by faster was the stop at In N Out. I love that place I don't eat much fast food but whenever I am in Cali I have to stop there. We got back to Matt's at a reasonable hr so I could get som ZZZZZZzs in for the drive back to Durango on Monday. The drive back to Durango was good Chad and I took a different route then we normally take and it was only about 6.5 hrs back to Durango giving us enough time to stop at RGPS before the closed.
This week should go by fast. I am only in Durango for 2 days before I get to do another big drive to St. George on thurs for the Team Jamis band camp before we do the first real race of the season at Bonelli.
alright I need to go ride,
Adam
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