PlatteKill PROGRT #3

I absolutely LOVE racing at Plattekille!  It's steep and motivating, and keeps you on your toes and in the moment.  Seeding was a bit of a muddy, rainy experience in which I just had to make myself keep going.  I did love using my new SPY goggles with the roll offs though.  In finals I was on an awesome race run, and then ended up crashing three times at the bottom.  Bit of a major race craft mistake as I needed to take an arm pump rest slightly earlier up on the course, and I completely forgot about that resulting in failure to hold on to the bike and me on the ground a few times.  Otherwise, it was a personal win as I was riding the bike again and starting to get back in the groove of racing and feeling good on my bike.

 Fun times hopping over the roots in the section before this shot.

 This section was a little funky at first, but got better over the course of the weekend.

 One of several steep sections in the mud.

 Kind of a fun section that took some effort on the steep after it to keep it going in the right direction.

 Race day when the sun came out.

Sean captured this photo of Alex Willie riding that Intense!

Looking forward to an awesome race season!

Today was a fabulous day as I am finally all cleared by the doc and back on a full training schedule.  Check out my happy face!  So happy to be back on a trail outside!  The trainer bike and road bike are fun and all, but there's just not a lot of variety there.  It was awesome that it didn't snow today, so I went out for a cross country ride.

Super happy with the new ODI grips as well.

Rocks and plenty of dirt around the trail today.  It was nice to enjoy it, especially since it might snow all over the trail by tomorrow.  You never know in Colorado.  There was some mud on the trail, which I was stoked to ride through as well since it gave me positive thoughts of looking forward to the hero dirt that can form up at Port Angeles, WA with a bit of moisture.

Nice view of some snowy mountains on the top of the trail.  It was quite the nature experience today as one part of the trail was full of howling coyotes, and later on a herd of deer passed by the trail.

I rode until dark today, but soon the time change will come and I will have so many more hours to play after work during the week.  Looking forward to it!