Whistler A-line
Yesterday was the Jim Bean Air DH and I was going for my 3rd win in a row. I was getting all kinds of shit from Marc Beamont, Greg Minnar, and some others on how slow I was through the 10 seconds worth of trees on the course, so I was giving them all shit on how they were not staying low enough on all the jumps. We were all joking around, having a good time talking shit.
I knew Minnar would probably be the toughest one, although there were a lot of world class riders in this event. Minnar has been killing it this year and he did great last year, so I figured he would be tough.
My medium MOJO was set up with a new marzocchi 55 air fork and a ROCO coil shock in the rear. I had a Kenda Blue Groove in the front and a cut Small Block 8 in the rear. The bike felt good and so did I. My run was pretty smooth, only making a few little errors which didn't cost me much time. I felt really strong in all the pedaling sections and was happy taking the hot seat from Chris Kovaric when I came through the finish. I was 5.5 seconds faster than Chris so I knew I had a good time, but Greg was still to come. Greg crossed the line, I waited for his time to come up, and then I put my arms in the air. I had pulled off my 3rd win in a row over some pretty fast guys.
Today was mostly spent hanging out. Went to the lake for some relaxing and did a few runs on the giant slalom course which is not too much fun. Tomorrows the race, so we will report on that tomorrow.
Posted by Brian on August 14, 2008 09:59 PM