It’s Monday morning, I’m tired. Crested Butte was a great weekend. The course was really fun for the first time in ages. It was almost completely new aside from some bottom stuff. It remained an incredibly physical track though, which some people didn’t like. The mountain cross was really fun to watch. Rudy and I helped design the course and people seemed to enjoy it. I got a lot of good feedback. Just as I hoped, it dumped rain right before the pro men’s finals and it made for some entertaining racing. I think Petr Hanak took it in the end.
Downhill the next day went well for me. I managed to get fifth place. Fifth didn’t exactly satisfy my hunger from being off the bike for six months, but it was a solid result. I had an almost flawless race run and made no mistakes. Mitch Ropelato took the win and beat me by six seconds, he is a solid racer who knows how to ride a bike. I know I am starting to get to the proper fitness level after this because about 15 minutes after I finished my race run I felt like I could do it all over again.
Now I’m packing and getting ready to start the road trip to Whistler. I’ll keep you posted as much as I can. Big shout out to all the people the helped me get by this weekend: Scott Branney and the rest of the Branneys, Yeti Cycles, My pops, and Alex.
