Diablo

The mountains were beautiful sunny and not too hot. Both nights camping with no fly sleeping with the stars were great. Practice was fun. The course was really rocky in sections with a ledge section, boulder stair section, and some really loose conditions (lots of dust). I ended up doing about 12 runs on Saturday, about 8 on the race course. There was a new section of BIG JUMPS on Lower Dominion Trail and they are a TON of fun. It took a couple of runs to get them timed well and over the jumps. Ran that about 4 times before turning my ankle on a Trials like trail called Slayer. My problem is that I do the race run several times and start to get in dialed and going faster and then I go into a trail that I don't know too hot (fast)and make mistakes. It happened again at the end of the weekend, smashing my rotor on rock and dinging it pretty good. Advil was my friend and I got a bunch more runs in Sunday morning. I was first in my class to go and I had a dab near the top and stuttered through a tough garden. Other than that it was a clean run and I finished 12th place. After that I did two runs on Dominion for fun and rolled home. I went down 95 and traffic was insane. Stop and Go for over an hour and 20 minutes waiting to get gas in Jersey.. NO MORE! 81 is my friend.