This weekend was packed full of bike racing and bed lounging for me. Saturday was the MTB provincial XC where I had excellent legs. My tire selection was a gamble and they were super fast tires for 90% of the course but unfortunately the other 10% of the course (muddy and wet) made me revert to riding like a small child – where I lost oodles of time to my competitors. The gamble didn’t quite pay off but at least it was nice to see the front of the race for 1 hr anyways. I was very happy to see my good friend Evan suffer face his way to win the race and claim the provincial title. He will look mighty special in the white & blue strips next year – Congrats Evan!
The Canada Day Crit was yesterday and Brys & 9 months pregnant Angie we out among other friends (Liesje of course, Jay & Julie) cheering me on and Brys snapped some nice photos. Thanks Brys! Once the 7 man break got away I stayed at or near the front of the pack and stayed out of trouble (away from crashing that is – unfortunately Evan was unable to avoid that dreaded crash, but he’s okay). The group was not very motivated to chase down the leaders so it was a pretty mello race. For what it is worth, I sprinted into 3rd at the finish from this main “chase” group just behind 2 whiley vetrans. Nice to see that Marc Bomhof won w/ Hopping taking 4th.
Today was all about the lounge factor. I got up early and laid on the couch. Ate some breakfast, walked the dogs, did some shopping w/ Liesje, had some Tokyo, then went back to the park and laid down again on my nifty new ING picnic blanket.
At least it was sunny,
Mike
