Northstar

I've been here at Northstar Resort at Lake Tahoe, CA for a few days now for the collegiate natty champs. Its a massive resort that embraces mountain bike riding, so its nothing but fun times here. Too many trails to ride while we are here. You have to take a gondola from the village to the main riding area, where you have a choice of two other lifts to ride up to access many other trails.

The downhill track is really sick. Tons of rocks, not too many roots, and endless twisty turns mixed with crazy high speeds. The rocks here are cool because you can hit them at any angle and not get kicked around because there is endless traction everywhere. I've been just bombing through rock gardens not really having a prepared line and getting through just fine. That wouldn't happen on the east coast.

Racing mountaincross today, then getting up early Sunday morning for Downhill qualifying and racing shortly after that. So far I've had a blast, I'm gonna miss collegiate racing since it really stretches out the racing season and gives me a great opportunity to get out of Boone when the weather isn't it's best.

Collegiate National Championships on the horizon

Next week I'm leaving for Northstar Resort at Lake Tahoe, California for the 2009 Collegiate National Championships. I love collegiate racing, and this year we have seen much bigger crowds than ever, even bigger than most of the public races I've been doing. I'll be trying my best to defend my title in the downhill race, and try not to get too banged up in my first ever mountaincross race. Should be very interesting, I'll have 3-4 days to get used to the terrain before the race runs, so hopefully everything goes well! I also hope that there isn't too much snow on the ground. It should be really fun and I've been looking forward to this particular race for a long time now.