Mt. Sainte Anne

// July 27th, 2009 // Uncategorized

So I spaced on updating after nationals. I ended up coming away from sol vista with a broken thumb 13th in the XC and 11th in the STXC. Their is something about racing around @ 8500 that my body just doesn’t seem to like. After leaving granby it was back home to d-town for a couple days to get my thumb checked out and pack for the 4 weeks of humidity and rain on the east coast.

Mt. Sainte Anne was just as i remember it cloudy, rainy and cold. Lets just say if you didn’t pack a hoodie you weren’t spending to much time outside the hotel room. A major change from floating down the animas in d-town with a beer on wednesday. The course was the tradition very demanding mt. sainte anne world cup. Not a single flat section of trail all day. You are either going straight up or down the mountain with technical roots and rocks the entire time. It also rained a lot over the course of the weekend but the sand based dirt seems to hold water reasonably well.

With my thumb a major question mark for me I was unsure how the race would go. I’ve got a sweet removable cast that i’m rocking for the next 6 weeks along with a plastic split to ride in. Lets just say the most technical race all year isn’t the best for nursing a broken thumb through. The downhills didn’t bring my day to an end early. But all the pulling on the bars on the steep technical climbs made me call it a day a lap and half into the race. I figured it would be better to give the thumb a rest and give it another go in bromont.

After the race Snyder, Colt from cyclingdirt, and I packed Colts dodge durango to the rim and headed back to the U.S.A. I’m staying with Nate Dogg and Snyder in Stowe VT. This is my first time to Stowe and my first impression im stoked. It is sunny and 80 outside which really beats the weather Todd is dealing with in Mt. Saint Anne right now. It also has a small mountain town feel to it as well can’t beat that.