New F'ing Gloucester

a nice backdrop for a but whooping. so I never got around to that post about the new ride... Here she is! Lynn Basset ate the other pro women for lunch on her way to another back to back win weekend.This was before J pows cursed me out for putting in a long pull for TJ and Mark when they lapped me. Sorry about that bro. Just trying to stay on the lead lap as long as possible. ( and I vote they bring back the old Jelly Belly kits. )the North West U23's were tearing legs off all weekend.Kat stayed with Basset both days until Lynn decided to finely start racing on the last laps. Real men put there foot out in the corners,Toby is back to training again, and its paying off.Could I look any more thrilled? So I'll get this over with fast. Saturday: same typical New Gloucester course only minus the long run up. (strike 1) same typical dumb ass mud pit, that has no use but to bring the weight of my bike up a few pounds. (strike 2). And same bad luck mechanicals to start the race.(strike 3). Skip back to my last showing here. Pulled an egg beater right off the spindle 100 meters in to the race and rode around with one leg. Later that day, trying to redeem myself in the B race, put my chain between the cassette and the rear wheel to the point of no return and ran with my bike on my shoulder for the entirety of the race. This past Saturday went right along with the trend. After a good start, dropped a chain on the fast down hill section, and crashed soon after remounting it. On to Sunday. By New Gloucester standard, I guess this was a great race for me. Had an ok start to things, and slowly rode my way backwards. Actually, I went backwards quite fast due to slow forward progress, to be exact. The good news in all this: it's finely time for a little recovery period and two strait weekends of local races. This means some fun rides on the MTB for a change. Tuesday morning never looked so good...