Blowin’ Smoke

Now I only need Don to shorten the races to 1 mile, and then I can win the Elite race. Pulling the Elite field through almost the entire lead out was pretty cool. I’m not sure why I did it, but it’s cool nonetheless.

Carlos can ride singletrack. Every time I get on his wheel in the singletrack, I think “Damn.” But I can hang. Now I need to figure out how to do that when I’m not following Carlos.

It’s a weird day when you get stuck behind a “slow” rider in the singletrack, and that “slow” rider has a number on his plate that’s under 5.

Crashing sucks. Crashing when you’re in 7th really sucks. Crashing when you’re in 7th and 3 guys go by you before you get things back together sucks beyond sucking.

If your course has one section that is more dangerous than any other section, that is almost guaranteed to swallow tired riders whole, shouldn’t you have a course marshall there to pick up the pieces? And if there is a course marshall in the vicinity, shouldn’t he check on the rider that just stuck his head in the mud at 25 mph? Or should he just leave his fat ass on the 4-wheeler while some other racer gives up his race to see if the crashing rider is ok?

Kelson should take CO2 with him. Ryan should try to avoid kissing trees. Both of those guys are pretty damn fast, CO2 and trees notwithstanding.