US Open, Andorra, Ft. Bill, now in London on my way to World Champs in Italy

Yo yo yo!! Ok, big time slack off in the blog department. sorry. I'll try and be brief with the recaps from the last month of racing.

It has been pinned, all over the place, super fun, lots of competition, lots of riding on tons of different terrain.

First off, the U.S Open was rad. it was my first time at the race, and the experience could not have been better. the guys at Diablo Freeride Park are super cool and treated us so well. The DH track is technical and rocky, which I really liked. I qualified 16th and ended up 14th in the final, which I was pretty happy with. I think I was only 3 seconds off the top three, or top 5 I can't remember, but right in there, and my run was pretty good but could have been faster for sure. I hate excuses so that's now what it is, I'm just excited cause I know I'm on pace, I just need to put a good run together and I'll be right in there with the best of em.

Slalom was cool, really short. i qualied 7th, with teammates Cody Warren in 4th and Chris Herndon taking the number one spot in qualies. the race shaped out to be bad for me, I broke my chain out of the gate second run in the second round...so I was done for the night.

Straight from the US open Cody, Nate our mechanic, and myself flew over to Barcelona, where we got a car and drove up to Andorra for the second World Cup. The track is like nothing I have ever ridden...just a big rough mud rut the whole way down. I struggled pretty bad. sat. practice i felt pretty good, but my race sucked. I think it was my worst race run since I was a junior. No crashes, just slow slow slow. but I want to forget about it so moving on...

Ft. William, Scotland was the week after andorra, I flew up there and got to see the track early. they quickcreated alot of the track to try and smooth it out, but the weather didn't do what it has always done...rain. no rain meant to moisture for the quickcrete, and big holes developed everyhwere that made the track rougher i think.

My second practice run on thursday was probably the fastest one of the weekend. I felt like I started from where I left off at the World Champs there last year.

Dissapointment struck when I missed my start for the finals due to some miscommunication from the UCI officials. i'll leave it at that cause if i start going about how mad i was and how pissed I am at the UCI then this blog will be too long.

Now I am in the London Heathrow prison of an airport on an 8 hour layover to munich. We will get to Val Di Sole, Italy tomorrow morning and start the preparation for the World Championships. I'm stoked to be going again, this is my 3rd year in a row on the U.S. team, and I hope and plan to make it count!!!!!!!!!

Look for another update after worlds!! Later!!!!!