No Surgery!! Crutches for 6 Weeks... :(

The broken piece moves about 3-4 mm to the left when I stand on it!!

Well, after seeing the orthopedic surgeon yesterday, I am feeling a bit better about the the ankle getting all healed up. The Sports Med Doc on Tuesday thought I might have torn ligaments in my ankle (would have needed surgery), but the ortho thought it looked okay, and the bone only really displaces when I weight it...sorry, don't have pics of that X-ray. It almost made me throw up, though, so...might be better to not see them! :)

I guess I'll get all caught up on stuff that I should do when I ride my bike instead. :)

Collegiate Nats Come and Gone

Riding a lil gingerly with the bum left wheel!

Well, the weekend didn't pan out quite as well as I had hoped on the way out here! I was feeling really great on the DH track and especially good on the DS course in practice...then in yesterday's practice run, things went terrible wrong! :( I had a lil get off and landed on the back side of a berm in some gnarly junk and ended up breaking my fibula. I thought it might be just sprained (even though I heard it crack) and tried to give riding out the course a go. Needless to say it didn't go well and I ended up at the ER instead of racing DH.

I decided last night that I wanted to try and race DS today. I didn't think I'd be able to defend my National Champs title, but I wanted to give it a go anyway. I was definitley hop along cassidy for most of the day. I qualified 8th and gave it my all! In the end, I forgot to eat anything except breakfast, and I completely ran out of gas! I got 4th, which, I guess isn't too bad with a broken fibula!

New DS at Collegiate Nationals

The folks at Lees McCrae rounded up Chris Herdon to build a new dual slalom track for them for collegiate nats next weekend. As much as I generally dislike dual slalom, this course looks like it's going to be a lot of fun!! Scan ahead on the video to just before 2:00, and Chris shows you how it's supposed to be ridden...prolly not gonna look like that for more than a handful of folks next week! :)

Back in the Game

Got a new camera on the way!! Wahoooo!! I can't believe I've missed snapping pics of the beautiful colors of my favorite season b.c I left my camera in a castle in Austria!! Duhhhhhh! Not for much longer! :)

Mud Butz

I'm pretty sure Jordan never even crashed to get that muddy!!!

Two of the most quality boys out there!!!

Last weekend we took an army of CU Cycling racers (~40) down to Durango for the FLC race. It was the gravity conference finals, and we showed up with a whole crew of folks to race DH and DS. DH got off to a good start with the course finishing on a super steep techy section of trail that they've never actually raced down before. It was good fun (minus the 1.5 minute flat pedally section in the middle...that was painful, haha!).

Yea for riding in the mud...Boo for having to clean everything when we were done!

Immediately after DH, we all grabbed some food and ran down to DS practice...where it had started pissing rain! :( The DS turned into a ridiculous mud fest!! The mud at Chapman Hill is super clay mud that sticks to everything...including full on wet scream mud spikes!! We ended up having so much fun riding and racing in the mud with Cody ending up winning the semi-finals AND the finals on a rear flat. I think he was riding faster on the flat than he was when it had air in it! Crazy (check the FLC video, it's towards the end)!!!

Jordan and Cody in the semis...notice the rear flat in the gate!!

Jordan showing off his pearly whites! :)

Saturday evening found a typical super house party of cool bike riding people and a bit of a tour of the bars in D-town! Good fun for sure. FLC boys sure do have a lot more fun than the boys at CU! I guess they haven't introduced hater-ade into the water in Durango yet... haha :)

Fundraiser for T

Hey All-Check out the fundraiser that JDD is coordinating for Tara Llanes. She has ongoing medical bills that are well into the 6 figure range. This could happen to any of us, so if you've got a lil spare cash sitting around, send it over to Jeremiah for the raffle!!

Also, check out Tara's Road To Recovery Foundation website for other ways to help out!

Yea for Mud...?!?!

The forecast is off and on, but it's definitely NOT going to be dry in Banner Elk, NC for collegiate Nats at the end of the month. Now we can only hope that we get a new coach before then, as the current one is a headache that combined with the mud, I'm not prepared to deal with! If you look up dumb ass in the dictionary, his picture is sure to be there with the definition!