Wausau Report and somthing special

It took me a while to recover from my injured knee from rhinelander, but I think it's just about back to normal. Since I've been doing so well this season I really had high expectations for Wausau. Unfortunatly though, on friday night I started going through the bike changing tires and such. I looked at the rear wheel and I never nothiced how bent up it got from my crash in Rhinelander. I brought it to JB and they didn't have time to fix it, so I just took it home thinking it would be ok for one more race. Once I examined it more I notice that I could turn one of the nipples by hand. I probably could have done a hack job of trueing it, but I really didn't want to make it worse.

So enough details, I ended up taking my dads stuntjumper. I thought the tires on it were fine which was a huge mistake. This bike feels like a tank compared to my ProCaliber. In warming up for the race, I noticed the bike just didn't roll at all. At that point I didn't expect much at all. So the race went horribly slow and I could barely go over fifteen, and mentally I just wasn't there. I ended up 17th with 1 hour 38 min (freaken horrible). In the end I should have brought my wheel in sooner, so oh well. I'll just have to do over 7 races to wipe this bad result out. The Procaliber will be out for Mount Morris, so beware, I'm planning on bringing out my Game face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I'm going to try the BikeHub ride this Thursday and go to the camp Wednesday for the group ride.

I think that I've been racing long enough (7 season starts) to show these pictures. These are from my very first race in Kewaunee 2003. I weighed about 220lbs and was about 4" shorter. So seeing these and how the team and WORS has changed me for the better makes me feel pretty damn good. I weigh about 175lbs now, and I can vouch that its the best "diet program" in the world LOL!! Also if you notice I new nothing about equipment. My first ride was a Giant AC2. It weighs ride around 40lbs with 6" travel front and rear. Origionally I wanted to get into Downhilling, but quickly found out that it didn't exist here very much.