So they tell me I gotta do the good old reviews again. With only 2 empty weekends between now & August I'm going to have to rebel and stay simple with just the juicy stuff. You would be bored anyway after following twitter all weekend.
Thursday was a drive up to Las Vegas. We made it quick once we left, but we didn't leave when we wanted thanks to UPS being later than they usually are. Cant leave with the goods! We got there and decided since the rest of the vegas team boys were over at the track doing a little quite session we figured stopping by and checking out the track would be good for the bucket list. I stood on the track for a few minutes and gave up on looking and grabbed my wheels and soon felt what everyone was talking about on the track. Some lippy walls to be jumping out there. 28 footers. We left there, stayed at the bowling balls house.
Friday- Nate, Rob, and myself went over to the new City Of Bicycles shop in vegas. Nate's getting sick wheels done up for 2 weeks from now. I scored 130 dollar brakes and we had some lunch, checked into the hotel and hit the track for the practice session. 10 minutes before pre race closed I decided to get in on the action. I got 2nd that night. Turns out I ended up getting 2nd all weekend. Just got out ponied by 1 person all weekend. Not by much so that was a good outlook for myself considering the distance tuttle can put on some people.
Saturday at the track was the same old, nothing to new going on around the rumor mill. There was nearly 80 motos and it ran at an OK pace. i think we were outta there and back in the hotel not to far after 3. That gave us plenty of time to spectate at the party pit inside Excalibur while waiting for a seat at the Dicks Last Resort. The whole team had some dinner there and it's quickly becoming a regular dinner place. There is one in Dallas so we might just have to represent again! After dinner Patrick, Nate and I went out to Robs house for his daughters birthday party. We dragged into the hotel pretty late for the 2nd night in a row! The ice machine decided to be outside the window of my room in our suite. I wanted to open the window at 3AM and ask why the heck they need ice during those hours of the night.
Sunday was an early morning and to the trainers dislike I filled my fuel tank with a coffee frap! It did the track as I nipped 1st place during round 1. I took 2nd every lap the rest of Sunday but what the heck, at lest both days I did come around with a win now and then. We would have been done Sunday a whole lot sooner but in the pro main there was a video finish decision to be made and since the new "talent" NBL put in to replace the perfectly qualified world ranked official couldn't come up with a decision to how to solve the tie. A tie because the scoring crew missed it and he didn't keep the video loop pointing at the finish line, he chose to point it at the ground. So without a clear view of what the finish was his talented executive decision was to have a race off. What the hell is a race off in BMX? Is that even in the rule book? Its been more than a day since I learned of his resolution to the problem and I still cant stop laughing. I only wish the people involved would have thought long enough to actually agree to it and see what he came up with. This aint time trials!
We got out after mains and took a long drive home. Got stuck in traffic, had lunch cause we were tired of the traffic and then got stuck in more traffic cause of construction, then got stuck in more traffic cause of an accident and then finally got home with enough time to get to bed! I got a pretty late start this morning but the day went on and I am back on schedule. 2 days & I am out for Texas. More next week kids!
