Slow Motion with D

Not too much to expect when Shep and Trebon show up for race number 3.  An uneventful race landed me in first place for best of the rest….so, 3rd.  I didn’t feel too great, but was able to keep local pro mtber Ben Thompson just far enough away that he wasn’t a threat.  3rd and not lapped (really short laps) was a good result and I was happy.

The 4th race in the series was, well, like a USGP.  Shep, Craig, Decker and Aaron Olson of T-Mobile.  Trebon took the night off, so he could travel to New York before heading to Europe to race cross, but he was there to heckle and tell me how much I sucked.  After a long 2 weeks on the road for Interbike and Salt Lake City shop visits, I rolled back into Bend just hours before the race started.  My expectations were low and I just wanted to score some points to wrap up the series win.  That’s about how it played out.  I felt better than I thought I would with so much driving and very few rides, but I was a little let down.  I had a good battle with Ben and Carson Miller snuck by me at the end.  I wasn’t feeling to aggressive in the lapped traffic and those two capitalized on it.  I think I finished 6th with Tim in 3rd behind Craig and Shep.  That wasn’t enough for Tim to overtake me and I was the proud recipient of…

The trophy, not the cat.  I already owned the cat.  Wade thought it was awesome that I got the win since we chatted about the trophy before the series even started.  Thanks to Web cyclery and Wade at Vulture.  There’s a good write up on the Web site.