Trap, MR Fast Wax, MNJR kid, and Flip on the barriers first lap. Lars poured it on and dropped them all, not without Dan hanging tough and snake dropped back to 4th but pulled back to third. Ends up Lars should of raced B's. Although we were asked his age at the end of 2007 at registration, it is 2008. So Jake who is 14 now, was bumped up to 15-18 and Lars was bumped to B's but he/we didn't know that. So Lars was Dairy Queened which was a bummer. But they had fun watching the rest of the races including me suffer through the A race. I went in with as good as form as I could. I trained as hard as I could with the time that I had. So I was happy with how things played out because I went as hard as I could. I did have a little mental break down at 8 laps to go, thinking there was only 4 laps to go. Seems like state cx is always 1:10 range. Whatever, if your gonna race you better be ready. I had a good start and was in good position but lost some spots by the end. I tried to hang with Struchy but he is just solid on race day. I caught up to Paul but 3 to go he dropped the hammer and moved up again. Nice job. The course was great, super fun. Word to the stake pounders, if you are thinking UCI down the road, you better get rid of them or cover them up. There were a couple of spots that were tight that could of been ugly. Not being critical, just heads up. I don't know how they keep track of the results with riders in front of me having to do another lap and I got to finish. As far as I can tell, it looks pretty accurate. I wonder if riders would be game for a one time fee to cover chip timing or something. One thing nice about MNSCS and WORS is results are posted that evening in nice clean format.
The party section was some good laughs. Crazy people. I did manage one dollar. Had it on the counter this morning and when we were at church this morning Jack dropped a dollar in the offering and thought that was good form but turns out it came from Jonell's purse. Oh well, I'll save it for next time. Prayed for snow. Nice talking to the old timers about weather and farming. Real stuff. We don't have many young people in our chuch. One other full family, really. Anyways,
Like many others, we were wondering who the third place rider was in the A race. I heard "he was from Iowa" Wisconsin, Colorado, etc. I didn't see him at the start so I couldn't see it was Kurt Refsnider who is out in Boulder, CO in a PhD program at the University of Colorado - Boulder Department of Geosciences and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, wow cool stuff. Some days he rides faster then others but I would say he rode rippin' fast on Saturday. Last time I really talked to Kurt was here at Maplelag back in 2002. I caught him finishing up a 4 hour ski or something near the bmx track and he was frosted nicely. Kurt is another cyclist who has logged in tons of hours on the Nord boards.
Jake took some cool vid clips of Doug and Aric and LaLonde i'll try to get up tomorrow.Jon had his first hockey game this afternoon. The played Little Falls and won 9-0. Jon buried one top shelf. The puck came over and wham, it was in the net. The whole team looks just great. Man, they have really stepped it up. Fun to watch. The coaches are working them hard and bringing the best out in them. Hopefully they can face some tough teams this season. I would love to see them play the likes of Warroad or Roseau but I just don't see that happening unless things go well in district play. Time will tell.We were getting blasted nicely with snow this afternoon and thought we had the potential to finally cover the leaves and grass but then it warmed up a bit and think the snow might be gone in the morning. I dropped a call to Zigs who is out in northern Quebec as they should have some good snow but I think his communication lines are sketchy.
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