Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Sunny at an EC race, WHAT??

Manhattan skyline from Long Island...Post Card Style!

The first Jeep race was lats weekend in northern New Jersey at Mountain Creek. Eric Carter put in massive amounts of work to build a pretty sweet slalom track. It was one of the coolest slalom tracks that I've ridden. It had tight bermed corners, flat corners, little doubles, a md sized step up, good sized berms, big doubles, and a huge ski run type huck at the end. I was pretty pleased with my jumping on the course. Unfortunately my cornering is still sucking, and I didn't qualify for the finals. That was a big bummer since by just making the finals you got paid!

2-1-3

Lisa, Kathy, and Melissa

CVD got knocked out early, so he decided to be the bar tender!

Cody Warren, JD, Rando, and Petr were all on fire all day for the men, and Kathy Pruitt and Melissa were riding through the field all by themselves for the women. The men ended up in that order, as well as the women after Melissa crashed in a turn that sent Lopes home in the first round earlier in the day!
Look closely, you'll see her, well you'll see her backside!

After a fantastic breakfast by Buhly on Sunday morning, we all headed into the city to do a little sight seeing which turned into a lota sitting in horrible, horrible traffic and ultimately not getting to go to either ground zero or the Statue of Liberty! :( We did a Statue of Liberty drive by, well a drive by of her back side, so at least I got to see her, sort of. haha After we split with Buhly and Dave, we returned our rental car, checked all of our luggage in and then took a cab down to Long Island. It ended up being super cool with a really nice view of the Manhattan skyline, good food, and then almost missing our flight back home. Dohhh! Almost being the most important word in the last sentence! :)
Cool Graffiti artwork heading down to the water in Long Island

I don't think I'll be heading to the east coast anytime soon. It was nice (sometimes), very green, and had big buildings, but there were just too damn many people for my liking!

G3 in Sol Vista this weekend!! 3 DH races in 3 days, wahooo!! :)

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