SUMMER!

So its been awhile since I've updated my blog because I've really been busy with school and other stuff. I'm finally out of school, so I should be better at updating my blog.

So lets start with Tour of STL. I got 5th in the Jrs race on Saturday but only because I lost a coin flip. Joe Earsome and I were sprinting for the line and he somewhat sat up and I didn't and threw my bike at the line and no one could tell who won or not by eye. So they went to the camera but the camera wasn't working. They were going to call it a dead heat or something like that basically a tie but they couldn't because they said they were going 5 deep in medals but they didn't even do that. I didn't figure that out till after waiting for like an hour and being late for ultimate Frisbee State tourney. Ultimate didn't go so well. We played hard we just couldn't do enough to win any of our games even though a lot of them were really close. FoPo's jr race went pretty. I stayed with the group for the entire race until the last lap. Mesa had all of their jrs in the race. It was only the Fick, Nate, and I in the race. I was upset that I didn't get a chance to sprint against Joe again but we'll have to save the show down for later in the Season.

2 weeks ago was Joe Martin. That was a lot of fun. Keaton, my Dad and I head down for the weekend. The RR was fun. The pack exploded on the first. I made it over the first climb with about 3 guys or so. We then caught some more people. By the time we made the turn off the loop and head back in we had about 8 guys in our group. We hammered pretty hard and lost a few of them. I tried to get away from the group. I got off but they brought me back in about 2 miles from the finish. I got 2nd in our sprint. The TT pretty much sucked. Heres a pic of me dieing on the TT
The Crit the next day wasn't very much fun. I didn't get a good starting spot and got gapped of after like the 2nd turn. I tried hard to get back on but couldn't make it back on. So the same kind of thing happend. I got in a group about 5 and we went around. I got 2nd agian in the sprint. I didn't have anything left in my on the uphill finish. Over all it was a good weekend. I ended up 25th. Which is about half way so im not too disappointed. It was a fun to race against new people.

Last weekend I was in Iowa/Illnois for the snake alley crit, Melon City crit, and Quad Cities Crit. It was a lot of fun. Snake alley was fun except that it rained. It poured before the race and then it stopped so we got to ride alittle bit before the race and then it poured right before the race so any of the drying of the course went to waste. The rain made the snake hard. You couldn't stand up with out slipping. On one of the laps I stood up at the finish and my back tire slipped and I unclipped on accident and almost went down. Overall a good race. I finished like 30something out of 59. Austin got 3rd I think. The next day was Melon Cities. I didn't like this race so much probably because before the race on my first lap I crashed. I didn't know there was a speed bumb at the bottom of the hill. I was with Luke, Martin and Austin and were goign down the hill and I was eating my banana. So I only had one hand on my bars when we hit the speed bumb and went flying. I slide about 30 feet or so but I didn't drop my Banana which was weird. There I am on the ground and the dang banana is still in my hand. Nothing really bad happened to my body just a little road rash on my hip and some bruises. I got a huge scratch/chunk out of my fork and my handlebar tape got chewed up. I started the jrs race but dropped out b/c my leg hurt. I rested up and then did the 5s race. I didn't stay with the group long but kept on going with some other people. I ended up 15th in the 5s race. The last day was fun. I really liked the course. The jrs race was really fast. I was with the group in the back. Then there was a crash on the last turn towards the finish. I had to stop to try to get through it. Luke and Logan went down but were ok. I rode with with 2 guys for the rest of the race. The 5s race was fun. I moved up well in the first couple laps and was doing fine. Then about 6 to go I pretty much just ran out of juice. I started to drift off the back. I kept on pushing it and was able to finish the race. I got 20th place. I was happy. The race seemed hard and faster than any other race I have done before. Overall it was a good weekend.


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