FLC Wins Again, Hagman wins everything.

Hagman Triples his titles!
Oompa Loompa's were out for Shriver Cross last week!

Another division one mountain bike omnium title for the boys and girls of Fort Lewis College. Congratulations to all of the riders on the team and the staff for once again delivering. My good friend Alex Hagman walked away from the competition in both the STCX and the XC leaving no questions about who was the best in the country among the collegiate ranks. HAGMAN! The rest of the team put in solid rides as well. Eric Ransom in a close second in the STCX and Noah Singer with a 3rd in a short track. Not bad for his first crack at the championships. I have to give props the the Clownhillers as well. They are a part of the team and they got the job done. Chris Heath, finally got that jersey he has been after for the past few years. Now he can drop out of school and race Pro Clownhill on his winnings. Better stay in school! Good job Chris!

I went out to Granogue in Delaware and another race I can't pronounce in Pennsylvania this past weekend. It may as well have been Round 3 and Round 4 of the GP series. Everyone who could ride a bike was there. All the fast guys.

Saturday was Granogue and I tried to sneak in behind the UCI point riders and got caught by some psycho official. Everyone was fighting for a spot, I just got caught. The official screamed at me " Number 142, get back here". I was busted and so was Johny Sundt. Sundt was furious and almost got in a fight at the start of the race for calling the riders without points "Pylons". Like the construction cones that you just mow through I guess is what he was getting at. So after being relegated to the very back of the race by the official that wanted to hang me from a tree for trying to have a fair start, I had a pretty good race. I avoided the guy who crashed his brains out by snapping his fork off at the start of the race and taking out Troy Wells. Moved into about 30th by the end of the first lap. My toughest battle was with Matt White. That guy is riding good and he was dusting me on the downhills and riding the run up. He had a smaller ring, yeah , that's what it was?? Anyway, I finally got rid of him on the last lap when he dropped himself in the barriers, ouch! I ended up 13th.

Yesterday I was not into it. I don't know if it was not enough coffee or just tired. The gun went off, I had a good start position and just flailed. I couldn't race my way out of a wet paper bag. I was running way to much tire pressure and it was a course with lots of turns so low pressure was important. Oops! Then after I had already decided that I wasn't going well I remounted at the top of the run up and heard a crack! Not good. Turns out that I need to stop eating all those cookies. I broke my seatpost. With four laps to go and a borrowed pit bike I decided that I had had enough embarrassment at the back of the race already. I pulled the plug just in time to watch Todd and Wicks sprint in slow motion. Todd could have gotten him but waited to long and went to late. Dang! It was exciting.

All in all it was a good weekend of traveling and racing. Thanks to the TIAA-Cref squad for driving me around and picking me up. It was good to have a team rig to base out of. Until tomorrow.