Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Racing With Injuries





Well, the last two weeks have been hard. First was Sea Otter, I was feeling super fast and fit, but I crashed twice real hard on my hip in DH practice. I suffered severe bruising and a massive hemotoma. Needless to say racing was extraordinarily painful. Then this weekend I went to the Yeti Spring series to watch but ended up racing just for fun. It hurt super bad but I was still able to get 11th in slalom and 10th in 4x. I am trying to heal so that I can kill it at the Chalk Creek Stampede this weekend.

Monday, April 14, 2008

2008 Race Season Gearing Up!

The season has started early this year at Fontana and now on to the Sea Otter Classic. I have never felt this strong coming into the season. I feel like all the hard work during the winter is going to pay off with some big results. Fontana did not go so well due to an injury to my ankle in downhill practice due to a spectator in the course. I still mixed it up with the big boys in 4x and was five seconds out of the top ten in DH but I could not put any power into the pedals. My ankle is not 100% for Sea Otter but I am going to race hard any way. Such is life, git er done. I want to give a big thank you to all of my sponsors who are making this season possible.


The big news for the summer is that I will be building a public bike park for the town of Fraser. The park is going to have a bmx track, dirt jumps, slalom, and pump tracks. I will be promoting local events to get kids and the community more involved all summer. I will also be helping part time building trails at Sol Vista Basin, as well as coaching at three camps for kids at my private park, coaching some juniors privately, and holding day clinics at the new bike park. This will also be the first season that I will travel to all the national series races. I guess I am in for a busy summer.....Here we go.