Weekend Fun Section Two

photo credit- Rick Rasmussen

After a great day Saturday, both my whole brood and the Parsons Clan piled into the barge and headed south to Manzanita at the crack'o;ass.

Papa P raced first and had mechanicals from hell, ended up finishing on my SS mountain bike while dodging several bad crashes in the B field.

Jas raced one of her best races ever and sold it out on the hill after doing a long day on Saturday, having fun all the way with no pressure. I came across a woman laying in the trail after the first lap woozy as all get out from cracking her helmet in the loose sand, she wanted her bike back to continue, but the old rule goes if you can't stand up straight- no bikey.
Medics were summoned- more work on Sunday than I think they have ever had before at one of those races, and props to Keith and Rod for having them on site every race-
She gathered herself ok and all was well, several people helped out with her and it was very nice to see.
I raced the SS A as usual and didn't feel great in the legs- a two week solid block and a race the day before made things a little slow- but made the front group behind Rich Maile who was ON FIRE, two jerseys for the day, very nice.

Cesar and Julian took off and I should have went too, but contented myself with being in the group with number 2 and 3 in the points, hoping things would go my way.

The hill wasn't that big of a problem and often I chased back on the climb, but I didn't stay focused enough on the turns and descents, and kept getting gapped and needing to chase back on, not good and after 7 laps the elastic popped for good, realistically I doubt the end result would have been different had I stayed on a bit more, but you never know if you don't suffer through it.
Held on for 7th and stayed on the lead lap, no small feat with Justin coming on like a freight train.
Definitely mentally worked from a late night/ early morning wakeup before I even got there and was a bit bitchy about bottle handups and such, really it was my tired mind and a soft bottle that played the biggest part in dropping it two times, must suck up to the feeding crew a bit now...:-)

All in all some fantastic racing at a very high level all day to watch, very sweet!

See you all at GG park and I have a suprise for you all, well, some of you.