Knapp Time- USGP 5 & 6

Wow! Lame on the updates, the site was down. How are all the race fans supposed to know what the Hero, me, is up to! Well I will tell you. After paying $90, (cha-ching) to get the site back up and running people better start hitting this thing more. Sorry for the lack of photos, I have been to lazy this week to haul the 8 pound digital camera I have that is only like 3 mega pixels around.

I am in Seattle right now racing the USGP's of cross. Luckily Kona riders are everywhere and I am staying with the Knapp's. Dale and Ann Knapp live right on the Puget Sound in Des Moines, Washington. The water is so close that I could toss a quarter in it. It is pretty awesome. Dale killed it in his race and was sprinting for the win, it was Knapp time all day!

Anyway, Last weekend was the Colorado State Championships in Durango at FLC. I helped organize and put on the race with Dave Hagen. It was a ton of work to get the ball rolling and everything organized. The course was awesome, the racer turnout not so awesome. The fans were great though and we had a huge turnout because the soccre team was having a tournament and all the Hooligans came over to the beer tent to continue punishing their livers while we punished or entire bodies on the course.

I ended up staying away from the Wells brothers because Todd decided to do a crank-grind on the concrete stairs run up in the ampatheater of the course. Note to self-"Don't smash $500 cranks on the edge of concrete stairs" end note to self. I stayed away mad some sweet moola with uncle rico and had a good time at the party at Steamworks. I was to cracked to head out to the Dawg and dance the night away. Todd's wife meg was buying Tequila Shot's that was my cue to get on outta there ASAP. I'll do one! I'll do one turned into a couple.

I just got back from the 5th round of the USGP Cross races here in Seattle/Tacoma. Thank god it wasn't raining. I am already cracked, rain will just crack me some more. I don't know what is going on with the UCI points this year. I have been doing pretty well and still I am in the 3rd row. Even Horner got called up before me, WHAT???? So Horner totally botched the start today and I ended up losing like 30 spots right from the get go and had to work my way back up through the field again. Made it up to a group of 10 on the 2nd lap that was the chase group. The run up today was 80 meters long and was the UCI limit. We did it 9 times and it was so steep and loose. The last lap I was chasing McCormack and trying to catch him on the run up. For the first time in my life I was going so hard that at the top of the run up I couldn't feel my arms and my vision was going. The walls were closing in on me. I couldn't catch McCormack. Adam Craig caught me again in the corners. That guy is so freaking fast in the turns. Luckily I saved some of the Shriver Surge for the end and Adam wasn't ready for it. I gave it to him for 9th. I don't think he even cared.

Tomorrow is the last round of the USGP of Cyclocrss series in Portland. It is supposed to rain so it should be nice and sloppy. Sweet for packing the bikes for the 6 am flight out in the morning. Wish me luck! As Dave Towle would say, "there is a 90% chance of rain and a 100% chance of pain".