USGP #3 Boulder Top 10

The log carry, this hurt!
The Cref boys hitting the barrier section!

Another epic day of cross racing in Boulder. The conditions were awesome considering I love the fair weather racing. It was about 55 degrees and cloudy, nice! The course was great and very challenging. The fans were awesome and it was a good change to race out in the west instead of the east. People were all over the course screaming for me. Thanks for all the support, it definitely made me force myself into the hurt locker a bit further.

Down to the race action. I started second row and it was a fast and sketchy start on the pavement and shot into a off camber technical dirt sidehill. I sat in about 15th for awhile and moved up throughout the race. All day I found myself with Erik Tonkin, the caveman, again! Andy Jaques Maines came out of the front group and was battling with Tonkin and myself. I think the highest I made it in the field was 8th and it hurt. Coming down to the end I hit it hard on a little climb. Tonkin came off and it was Jaques Maniac and myself. I was in the front though and new he would gun me in the sprint. I kept slowing down trying to get me to come around, but his is a grizzled veteran and knew to well what I was doing. I had to lead out the sprint and it wasn't much of one as he crushed me. I ened up 10th on the day! I am pretty happy with that.

Huge props out the the rest of the D-town crowd. Todd Wells needs to work on his sprint as he got pimped at the line by jeremy powers for 3rd. Anthony Colby had a slow start and came on stong and finished 15th. Troy Wells has been training his brains out but hung in there until the last lap and slid to 25th. The biggest new was the real Joey Thompson finishing 13th and starting in the 6th row. Moving through people like they were out on a Sunday ride sniffing the flowers.

It was a good day, time to rest up for tomorrow. Thanks to everyone for screaming for me. I better see you all out there again tomorrow. Until next time.