Double Bubba 6 and 7

The double header weekend of the Bubba series was a sweet one. The held a race on Saturday night and then again on Sunday at the same place.

The race on Saturday night was pretty cold. I think by the time my race got under way it was in the upper 20's. I felt good on the warm up laps and prepaired to do battle with for one of the bigger cross races of the year. As the race got going I felt like I had some fight in me. I battled with several riders who were out of my league at the beginning and that was a great feeling. The course was long, flat, and bumpy as hell with a double sand pit. Towards the middle of the race I finally remembered to look at the lap card to see how much longer I was going to be punished. When I looked up it said 7.... oh fuck. I swear that race was 2 hours long. For some reason after seeing that I decided to start riding the sand pit to see if I could make it. I actually did on the second try. The only reason I didn't make the first try is because some fell in front of me. I even took a PBR hand up to keep the hard core fans loud. With 2 laps to go I found my self in a little battle with Wes Beirmen, Matt Dawson, and Mike Weiss closing in from about 10 seconds back. I turned on the heat a little and we dropped Matt. I don't think he was feeling to good. We kept it pinned knowing Mike was right there and still closing the gap a little. On the last lap he was probably only 3 seconds down. I gave it all I had coming out of every corner. I didn't want to let anyone by. I was pretty nervous heading into the sand pit for the last time. Wes was right there and Mike was too. I tried to stay as smooth as possible and focused on the remount. When I got clipped back in I took a peak over my shoulder only to see Wes right there. I pretty much sprinted since the finish line was only about 75 yards from there. I was able to ahead of those two but I found out that my result was not so great...32nd. I was kinda bumbed about my result but the race was a good one and I fought off some fast guys so I wasn't too bumbed.

On Sunday, much of the course was the same but the opposite direction. I drank a crap load of recovery drink the night before knowing I was going to be racing again the next day. However, I felt like shit. I don't think I ate enough food. I spun around before the race and I could tell that I had nothing in the tank. As the race got going I thought I had fooled my self. I felt really good actually and was riding with a fast group of guys fairly easily for the 1st lap. On the second lap I still felt good and tried to stay with them. I maintained my spot and stayed very close. Going into the 3rd lap they had opened up about a 5 second gap on me. On the asphalt section I went hard to close as much of that gap as possible and just blew up. I red lined and had to slow down and spin it out. I never recoverd from it and just had to spin the rest of the race. There was nothing I could do at that point. My race was over but I didn't want to quit, so, I stayed in and finished what I started.

Here are some photo's.
























Holla atcha boy......

Bubba 5 Suson Park

Coming into this race I had nothing going for me. The past two weeks for me have been pretty terrible really. Between loosing a close friend, my dog smashing out a window, getting off the couch to fast only to pass out and bounce my head off the floor resulting in black eye and a very sore neck the friday night before the race.... I probably should not have been there. I really needed to clear my mind so I went anyway. Lucky for me the course was brutal...psych! It was soft with lots of up hills that drained your energy. I started off battling with Mike Weiss and Jason Watkins from the team. We had a good race going for a couple laps untill I started to fade like neon yellow in 93. About half way through the race my back was taxed. My neck was very soar and I cringed with lower back pain and a sharp head ache on virtually every bump I hit. With about 5 laps to go, coming up the asphault hill where all the cheering was going on, a Ice cold PBR was handed to me by non other that TEAMSEAGAL. It was almost as if he could see I wanted to quit. With my head held low I took the PBR and called it a day. It did taste good though!

Thanks Team Seagal PBR hander outer. I am putting in a hard week this week with training and diet to try and get back what I have lost. I felt terrible and that made me hungry to get better. Hope to put in a better result this weekend under the lights. Hope the PBR hand ups are plentyfull.

Holla atcha boy.....

Super Linus Osborne!!!!!!!

My dog Linus thought he would be a stunt man Thursday morning while I was in the shower getting ready for work. I heard a loud crash and thought I had better check it out. When I opened the bathroom door there was blood all over the floors in every room....A LOT of blood. I found Linus laying in the middle of my bed bleeding all over it licking hiw paw. There was a broken windows in the computer room with bloody paw prints leaving the scene of the crime. He must have been going for a squirrel... he wants one so bad. I got dressed as quick as I could and took his ass to the vet. The vet said he would be there all day for surgery so I left there to go home and clean up before heading to work. But not before grabbing a few photos.

Thanks for hopping on the bed Linus....

So they vet bill wasnt that bad actually, like 200 bucks. They said he had enough damage to the viens in his paw that he may have died from blood loss had he done it right after I left for work and been gone all day. You were lucky this time dog.... It might be your throat next time.

Bubba #3 / Faust Park

Ok, so I dont really have much to report on the race since I partied all weekend and had a big family fish fry on Saturday and I really felt like shit on Sunday. Excuses Excuses, I know. I finished 30th out of 31. The only good news to report is that I finally got my new team uniform just in time for the Holloween race. Check below....

































Look at those fuckin legs!!!! I think I spy a camel toe. Officer Ted Dangle in full effect. My gooch was blasted after the race from not having normal cycling shorts.

I am going to collect all the hollween pics from the race that I can and post them all... probably later this week.

Happy Holloween.








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