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Originally Posted by headsnap
I missed last year, my Mom was on her last days of pancreatic cancer. Two years ago they got the big snowstorm overnight before the race, made the decision the race wasn’t worth it.
Hope to see you there!
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I tried to send via PM, but your inbox is full. I'll send here... none of you weirdos jump into my son's instagram DMs telling him his dad is an asshole on here:
How was Windrock? We had a great long weekend. My kid's race frame from GT didn't come in time, so we had to build up my bike (Stumpy Evo Alloy) to ride last minute. We probably should have just had him race his bike from the last couple of years, but it's really small on him. Anyway, we tempted fate and fate bit us.
Jodie from BTR, who is always awesome, helped us sort through a lot of problems in the leadup to race, and the bike was feeling pretty dialed on race day.
The plan was to take Stage 1 fairly easy, as he's been having issues with arm pump and just wanted to stay clean and build pace through the day. He finished 7th in U21 Pro for Stage 1 (6:58, I think). We were pretty stoked on that, as he was hoping for a finish between 5th and 10th and really just wanted to stack times with his peers to see where he stands with the folks he'll be racing at nationals. Top 3 u21 are all closer to 20 years of age, and he's 16. So we were happy with stage 1.
Stage 2: rear wheel blew up and bike seized up sending him OTB with a big crash of the bike into rocks. He had to walk down and ended up losing any chance of a decent finish as he was 3 minutes off the pace due to the mechanical. Gets to the bottom, and crank is also bent and bars are loose. Straighten crank sort of (made for weird foot position when pushing into corners). Swap out wheel, tighten and straighten bars, let's go. Attitude is still good because he just wanted to throw down two more runs and see where he stacked.
Stage 3: Feeling strong, then pushes into corner. We'd had problem with the starnut backing out, and it happened again and bars turned. Major crash. He thought he'd broken ribs. Lays on side of trail then realizes only knocked the breath out of him. Lost over a minute on the stage due to crash.
Stage 4: Just finish at this point. 12th on this stage.
Rough day, but he was stoked on the pace on stage 1. Learned a lot and had a great time riding and hanging with folks.
Coolest thing was the number of parents and other riders talking about how good his attitude remained when things were going to shit. I have no idea where he got that grit and growth mindset, but it's pretty awesome to see. We usually travel with his older brother (who is on the spectrum) and mom, and it was pretty fun for it to just be the two of us road dogging it.
I think I've sent it to you before, but this is his instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/floganmtb/
We may end up doing some GoNuts and other races this year (and obviously Nats), so would love to officially say , "Hello" if you're at any.