Troy Wells

Mt. Snow

// August 11th, 2009 // Uncategorized

I’ve been doing a lot of spectating as of late.  I watched the XC from the feed zone helping out Todd.  We had quite a crew in the upper feed zone between Meg, Roark, and Gully.  We cheered for everyone that we knew and for some we didn’t know.  Gully was up in the zone with bottles and wheels but he didn’t even offer the bottles to any of his riders.I guess he is  adopting the chinese  women’s coaching techniques.  Roark will cheer for anyone on a 29ner or as he likes to call them big wheels.  

On sunday i suited up and gave the STXC a shot. I almost took a digger warming up which took a little of my confidence away. Needless to say i didn’t quite have the legs to put together a good short track. After the sub par showing i decided it would be best to begin my break before cross. So i’ve got a week off back in NY before heading back to D-town.

Yesterday Todd, my dad, and I headed up to phoenicia n to hit up the Esopus on the tubes. We got some river rat 1 tubes from herzogs on sale. In durango the river rat tubes are sold out in april it seems. The hardest part of the tubing session was blowing them up. Nothing like getting light headed from being oxygen deprived. We did see a group of kids pop a tube from the town tinker tube rental. He was a long way from the get out point. That makes for a rough day on the Esopus.