The first Seattle series cross race was yesterday, and usually that would be the big story that I would have to tell about yet that seemed to be the smallest part of my day, mostly because my car broke down on the way to going up to the race, Lame! I broke an alternator belt and of course no one was open to buy one so my lovely girlfriend Clarissa picked me up and we managed to fit both my bikes and all my stuff in the her little car and I made it to the race, with only 45 min till race time! Ahh. And when we got there it was raining pretty good and it was pretty cold too, but the best part was lots and lots of mud. It was awsomly muddy out there and unfortunetly I had some more mechanical troubles in the race, first lap I slipped and landed on my seat really really hard and slammed the nose of the seat down to teh point where I could bearly ride it especially in the mud. but I switched bikes and got on my #2 bike started making up ground when that bike started make funny noises, like metal on metal which turned out to be that the tolences in my frame from the cranks ended up that my cranks were rubbing on my frame ouch but there was really no harm done I just jumped back on the other bike which Joe Mike and Chris, the rockstar mechanics, fixed up for me and got back on the gas. Not sure how I did, maybe top fifteen or something, hopefully results will be out soon. I am kinda bummed because I was feeling good and know I could have put up a good result minus the mechanicals, oh well that's bike racing for you.
Now back to my car. So I managed to roll the car into a rest stop to park during the race and I had my mom meet me there with a belt and some tools, so we got there and unfortunetly we had the wrong tools so I asked around and no one had anything I could use the after my mother making a couple trips to the store we got everything we needed and got back on the road about 2 and a half hours later for a 20 min job .Oh well it was just one of those days.....
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