TO HELL U RIDE

I went up to Telluride this weekend for the Full Tilt Telluride race. I went up with my parents and grandparents. When we got there around 1pm on Friday, it started to rain and didn't let up till about 5pm. I rode that course Friday around 5 30 with Phillip. GNARLY! So much mud, I was running Small Block 8s on both front and back, worst tires for mud. They where filled with mud, so much that I couldn't even make it up half the climbs during practice. Anyways, I got done riding, fully soaked with mud. Luckily I had my support team (dad and uncle luigi) slamming back beers at Tracks Bar while I braved the weather and rode. Phillips dad also joined in on the fun and drank plenty of beer with my support crew.



After a night of heavy rain, I woke up to a cold morning with some sun poking through the clouds. I ate a muffin, drank some water, and "cleaned" my system, in other words, i left the maids something to complain about.

With my luck, something went wrong with the bike. My brakes where horrible. They didn't have any power so I had to pull down to my knuckles to get them to kind of slow me down. My tires, small block 8s, where filled with mud which made it hard to climb up the muddy single track and fire roads but I made it.

I took off and stayed mid pack. Right off the front a kid from Devo flies up the front and it looks like we won't catch him. After about 1 mile into the course, its just me and Rice. Rice slips out on a root and I pass him up. He catches up to me during the second lap, by this time I have 2nd, the kid from Devo has 1st and Chris has second. Chris finally goes out of sight and all of a sudden about halfway through the second lap I see the Devo kid, I pass him and he can't keep up. He ended up tiring himself out the first lap and a half. I finished with second place about a minute and 30 seconds behind chris. Overall I think I had a time of a little under 1 hour and 35 minutes. Not too bad for 12.4 miles and about 2700 ft. of vertical gain.

By the way, Tracks has the best breakfast burritos. If your ever in Mountain village by the gondola, stop by a pick one up for breakfast and for lunch get the Ridgeline. Best sandwhich ever.

Anyways, this weekend i'm off to Colorado Springs for the State Games. I can't compete in the XC race which pisses me off but I get to do the road race, Junior 15-18 or something like that, 22.6 miles.
I can't wait till I can race Junior X because then I don't have to wake up till 9 or 10. AWESOME!

Oh, and Stastt if your reading this, I may have beat you by 7 minutes this year but next year its gonna be 15!