Collegiate Season

Collegiate season started 2 weeks ago with App putting on the first race of the ACC Conference series. I had a pretty good weekend, sweeping both DH and DS for the weekend, with Steven and Mueller rounding out the top 3 both times for a nice App State podium domination. This past weekend we all went down to Brevard to poach the SEC series for some better competition and racing on much harder tracks. The DH track was a mirror image of the trails we've been slaying around Boone, so it felt almost at home. I had a really embarrassing crash right off the start in a flat turn in front of EVERYONE in my race run, but still managed to hold onto a 2nd place finish behind Lees McCrae's Aaron Bradford. Awesome track with super steep sections into perfectly placed pocket berms that you could rail. Slalom came around and I have to say it was by far the best slalom track I think I've ever ridden. Not too long, but very technical and called for all skills to be ridden fast. I qualified 1st, but was unable to race because they didn't want racers from other conferences to eliminated the riders in that conference because of points. Kinda sucked but it they were right it wouldn't be fare. Oh well, we just went and shredded the pump track for a while and watched some really good racing.

I guess I'm heading down to Paris Mountain this weekend to race so maybe another update after that. According to some people its god's gift to mountain bike racing, so we'll see...