Mike and Mark heading up
Face shots were the order of the day
I'm getting the goods
Mike
Is it vain to keep looking at your tracks?
After the skiing, I headed south to meet up with Tanner for a quick lap on the ICUP Hurricane course. I didn't race Hurricane last year and the course was changed from 2008. The changes make the course into one of my new favorites. Good, technical desert riding. I was reminded yet again that there's no where else I'd rather live. Epic powder in the morning, classic desert riding in the afternoon.
I had no idea what the race would hold for me. 3.5 hours of hking and sking beginning at 6 am the day prior to a race probably isn't on any coach's training plan. However, it turned out to be a good plan for me. I ended up with my best MTB result in a couple years. Go figure.
Today, I'm home for Easter with my all my children. I'll take more weekends like this.
5 comments:
I think that you are discovering what Bart and Alex G. have been saying for a while: You don't need to ride a bike all winter to be fast. You, Mark A., Alex O., Mike H., etc. are all great examples of this too.
Hopefully you can accommodate a newbie on some tours next season. I need more powder in my life!
"I don't care how bad I do in the race tomorrow, this is worth it."
And then you finish on the podium. Nice.
I am fairly certain the key to success in any area of life is to have a devil may care attitude and the measure of success is not where I finish, but how I do on the journey.
Everything else is HFC icing.
and nice race btw, i think, maybe, if I didn't blow the start (straight into the boulder drop) I may have been a few minutes ahead of my time, having someone to draft off/work with woulda been nice.
That's my story, I'm stickin to it.
Bob, thanks for falling back, I need all the help I can get.
Mark, you are more than welcome next year. I was the newbie this year.
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