Ohhhh Hey

Man I am bad at this blogging thing. I always forget that I have one. Well lets get up to speed. I raced in Puerto Rico and that was a wicked good time guy. I got on the podium the first weekend and got some much needed UCI points. The course was super cool, really short but fun. All the singletrack was nice and technical and really tight. You had to have your Jedi skills set on high to negotiate the trails at race pace. This was the first race I was a bit weary having 700cm bars on but it worked out. The best part of the trip was the motel we stayed at. It was gnarly. In Puerto Rico a hotel is where you go on vacation and a motel is where you go to take you mistress or "girlfriend". Each room had a garage access to get into the place so you could go in discretely. All the rooms were paid for in 8hr segments fully equiped with Liberators and sex chairs, yes sex chairs, full wall to ceiling mirrors and for the lucky ones stripper poles.


The next weekend didn't go to smoothly, I definitely overtrained a bit that week and had a piss poor race placing in 9th but still in the points. The coolest thing about the races in Puerto Rico are that they have spectators....What? There are tons of people out there watching the races, you actually feel like you are somebody at those races. After the races they have autograph signings and theres always groups of people wanting to get a picture with you.




Fast forward to Sea Otter, normally a shit show of a weekend but this year it was a bit better. I did the Super D or more commonly known as the downhill fire road race. I got the holeshot from the gun but I figured it would be better to sit on someones wheel since the race was a drafting/tuck race. So I decided that sitting on Manuel Fumich was a good idea considering he is a top 5 world cupper. In the end the race turned out pretty well but I was outgeared by 4 dudes who had 44-11s or even better 44-11s on a 29er. My little 40t wasn't big enough for the finish do I rolled in for a 5th. The XC on the otherhand was pretty shitty per usual. This year they made the pro course super lame. I can remember a specific point in the race where I said to myself "I wish we were doing the old course" I would have never thought in a thousand years I would say that but that's how shitty the course was.

Monday after the race I started the drive back home to Durango. About 4 hrs into the dirve I decided it would be a good idea to do a little ride so I found a sweet trail in Auburn, CA. The trail was pretty sick and flowy with some fun jumps. This was all good and fun until I hit the last jump and whammy. I hit the deck hard, the landing on the jump was washed out by rain and replaced with a 2ft deep and wide ditch. So my front wheel stopped dead in the ditch and I went over the bars at like 25 mphs I tried to tuck and roll but I landed square on the back of my shoulder and separated my AC joint. Soooooooo now I am nursing this damn this back and I have been able to hit the trails again after a full week of 1 armed trainer riding and another week of road riding. I can;t jump or wheelie yet but I can at least hit the dirt again.

Next on the schedule are the 3 Canada Cups up in Quebexico. I am flying out on wed the 12th and I will be back east until the 7th, yup a lot of back east time. The best part of this back east trip will be that I can finally hit up the Domnarski farm root 66 race on the 6th. I have never done the race and I have heard so many good things about the race.

Later,
Adam