mudpit mountainbike race

Did a mountain bike race yesterday, called Hornings Hideout, fairly close to home.
It was really wet and like a mudpit, not too enjoyable. I'm a little bitter about the 3hrs I spent racing in the mud, crashing 15-20 times because the mud was 4" thick on the downhill sections... and the organizers didn't know what the bugger they were doing and oh it cost me 20quid to enter... yeah. utter crap. not fun at all.
The good news is because of it I also missed getting home to watch the Paris - Roubaix race on the telly. Bad Sunday.

2012 Up Yours, Hornings

The last night of Portland short track

Last night was the last in series of Short Track Races (Short track is the high intensity off road riding of laps). I snapped my seatpost off in the first race and did not ride again till the last, several weeks later, you can see that last night I rode my Cyclocross bike, which is a little bit of a bummer, since it has no suspension like a mountain bike, which is what is the normal weapon of choice. last night was special because at the end there was a Team relay, each ride rode 1 lap, and 10 team members... Yakima placed #2 out of 17 strong teams!.
A number of our team have been doing really well and took podium spots, Dave Condon has been leading out the Sport class consistently coming in top 4, Tony O killing the Masters 40+ getting a 3rd and Nick G took 3rd in the Experts.

See those nice red Chris King wheels in action!

Joel with his crazy mad helmet.

Sweet Sunset shining out of my neck.

James hauling in the relay race.

Nick G for yakima takes Overall series 2nd in Expert class.