Foot of the Mountain Video/Recap

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Race Recap: Well Round # 6 of the PA State Harescramble Series turned out to be a good bad day. The good part of the bad day was that I made it to the checkered flag, walked away from the race and I don’t have to put any money into my bike. The bad part of the day is that I finished 6th. First of all I want to thank my “Dad” mechanic and Bromley’s for making sure that I got my bike back together in time by the race on Sunday. In less than one week I sent out my rear suspension to get it rebuilt and have new linkage bearings put in so that I could race my bike. If I wasn’t able to get my bike ready in time I would have had to race my dads DRZ400 and that baby would have been a tank out there. Luckily I have good people around me and their hard work was definitely appreciated.

I was super confident that I was going to put in a good two hours because I loved the track last time I raced there. Since the last race the track owners totally switch the whole track around, making it a track where only the tough will survive. Let me see there were rocks, rocks and more rocks. The track was super rough with tons of new trail and tight single track. About a quarter of the track is on a hilly farm field which makes for a nice break from the abusive trails in the woods but since the track was so dry the promoters shut down that section of the track due to dusting out the neighbors. That left the riders with a non-stop beat down up and down the mountain. I got an okay start, as you can see it was so dry that riders were fishtailing all over the place so it made it hard to get into that first turn and battle it out. I went into the woods 4th and on the first lap a got a little squirrelly on a rock uphill and stalled and two riders who were trailing me passed me. I tried to keep a good pace but parts of the track would easily take you out of your rhythm due to the technical rocky sections. I tried to flow like I did at the previous race but this track was much more unforgiving. Physically I felt good except for my blistered hands due to trying to hold on from the super bumpy terrain. My lower back took a few jolts from some of the boulders up in the trail. Other than that my spirits were low but let me remind you as I did myself, that there is 7 more weeks of racing and if anything I am more fired up to work harder and put in better laps to get more points. I still hold second overall and I intend too.

I will say that my buddy Kevin Schuler was parked next to me in the pits and he gave me some encouraging words. He is ranked 68th in the country, yeah so he is really good/fast. You can catch a glimpse of him in the video; I really wasn’t that close to him either, I just edited it like that. I look forward to hang’n out with him at the big GNCC race at Unadilla later in the month. Next Week: Back Mountain = back to podium!