It was the perfect day for cross racing Sunday. Cool, damp, and no real wind. As the others stated there was a huge pile up in the 1st corner that let the front 3rd of the field get gone fast. I tip-toed around the big mess in turn 1 and started hammering as hard as I could. I didn’t want team Ridley to get out of site. Stay with those dudes for the first 2 laps and your gonna have a shot at a win. As I came around a sweeping, fast, gravely right hander Andy was on his way down and there was just no time to react. I was closing in on him and the guys he was following really fast so I had no chance. I T-Boned his bike as he was sliding across my path and I was down like that. I got up and on my way quickly but I could hear my tire leaking before I really got moving.

I walked back to the officials, gave them my number, and asked if they could upgrade me so I could do the A race. The answer was no, only Matt Anderson can do that and he’s not here today. As I was walking around sulking Tim (superrookie) saw Matt pull in and was talking to him about my situation. Long story short, it got done and I did the A race. I had the results and had applied a while back but everything was still “pending approval”.

When the A race started I had some trouble getting clipped in so I was waaaaaay back after the first lap. From then on I just got into a good groove and started passing people. I moved forward the whole race. I was passed by 2 people, Dewey Dickey passed me on the 1st lap, and Doug Swanson lapped me with 2 to go.

No Idea where I ended up and I have a huge bruise on my left hip from crashing. It was a sweet day at Boom Island.

cj