Queebec to Ontario.

Just arrived here in Barrie, ON last night, after a long 8 hour driving day.We had a wicked rest day on Sunday in Mont Tremblant. Started with a sick omlette in the morning, followed by a canoe ride for an hour and a bit up river, only to race back down to the cottage before we suited up and had our easy spin over to the mtn. It was a nice hot sunny day, 25 degrees I believe, which meant the shirts were rolled up, lotion was on and hopefully some well deserved vitamin D. Once we got the mtn, we headed over to check on the DH'ers. Maybe give them all a few tips on descending or whatnot... Off came the chamois's and on came the shorts(commando of course) it was a cooker out. We watched some of the dh runs, some good wipeouts, some good little stylies. We saw the BC Juniors get 1-2-3, Lauren Rosser of BC was third in the junior XC yesterday and won today. That deserves a "Snap". I then decided to go hang out with that Andrew Watson guys and his mini-him Zach Hughes, Cody Canning and Andrew L'esperance. We contemplated luge-ing, and finally decided screw it right. So we went and paid 18 bones for two runs. And was that not the best 18 $ I spent on this trip! It was unreal, Made a video of it too. Took of the camera and duck-taped it to the handle bars so you could see how was done. If you look closely on the vid you can see how fast we flew by everyone. The workers told us not to be assholes....but who needs brakes right?

XC story. So..that was a good interesting first pro Canada Cup race. I was going to be called up like 10th last based on UCI points, and there were 90 starts. So I decided to take the initiative and roll up to the line un-called at about 50th. Its worth the try. And so it was, the commisaire came up and was like "Sir, were you called up" and I was like "yah, Im sure I heard my name, lots of the last names with G sound the same in french right?" So she left it and I was good to let it loose on the 5th or 6th line. Had a slow start, which is unavoidable with the lack of racing and the post-mono thing. Then caught back up going into the singletrack and somehow pulled off getting into the top-20 by the end of the first lap. I guess that euro racing make you super duper uber aggressive. Rolled in a group for the nest lap with teammate Marty Lazarski, fell off the that group and wasn't far behind for the next two laps, I was actually riding with Adam Snyder, pretty rad dude, descends like a mofo and we made fun of people with flat bars with we tore up the descent with our massive riser bars..anyway he broke his pedal and I was on my own riding in like 21st or so and then was trying to close a gap on the last descent and hit a line wrong, was riding half on half off the trail, then missed the bridge that went over a dry creek bed, clipped my front wheel on a hunk of 2X4 that was sticking out and I then went for a quick little solo flight while my bike was flying even higher and went even further. Of course I landed on the big pointy rock on my back, cracked my helmet, didn't hit the spleen side though! that could have been fatal with the whole swelling because of mono thing. The medical people came running and it looked bad because I knocked myself silly for a sec and knocked the wind out so I seemed like a idiot laying there. But they wouildn't let me go until they did a full check over, which took a while. Finally I got back going and rolled to the line, for like 38th or something. Checked the garmin and lost like 8 mins on that last lap crash. So feel good about the ride otherwise, just where I was riding how I was riding compared to the full fledged mono-ride in Fontana. Hope the next few races will get me back up to speed. Good job to Paxton was taking round #2, and teammate Raphael Gagne for taking 3rd spot.

We just hung out for a bit, I iced by elbow, which was now not bending at this points. We went back had some food, then headed back to the village for the Red Bull relay event. Which consisted of an XC race and a DH racer ripping through the village up the mtn and around, and $3000 to the winner. Where Rocky Mountain teammate Raphael Gagne and his dh teammate Steve Smith of all things cleaned up and lapped everyone. Yeyeye!