Home from World Champs

First off thanks to everyone to helped to make 2012 a great year and sorry I sucked at the last, most important race! So thanks to Rocky Mountian Bicycles, Cycling BC, Cycling Canada, The Bike Barn, Planet Foods, Fox Racing Shox, Peachland Dental, family, friends, and all who all other's. 

Sorry for the last update but I was pretty disappointed after my race as I definitely wanted to finish the season on the high not after notching some of my best results to date this year. It was a tough race. I had a poor starting postion in 72nd and just couldn't move through the field like normal I just had a few bullets adn used them early and then was on damage control/not being able to ride back the rest of the race. I did t-bone a spectator that walked out onto the course on the downhill. Felt bad but he definitely shouldn't have been crossing when there was "do not cross" signs everywhere.. After the horrible race Team Canada met up with Team USA for some a sick mountain ascent to an even sicker downhill. We were all so fried and had no food and almost couldn't ride down but we needed to get in at least one awesome exploration ride. That it was as we climbed and climbed and then rode slow down. 

That evening we went into downtown Saalfelden for some pizza, real oven cooked pizza. Cheered on the trails riders and then went home for a good nights sleep. Saturday was a big day with junior mens race in the AM, elite womens race mid day, elite mens race mid afternoon. We cheered hard, my voice slowly faded. Went out for another awesome Team Canada dinner for pizza then some McDonalds. Which turned into a 3 day binge of McDonalds. There was some evening fun with all the national teams, olympic champions, world champions and so on. On Sunday before we left we watched some of the Eliminator World Champs which Kabush rode to a 10th in, the only Canadian participating. 

Finally home after a few days of travel home from Europe. It was great that Air Canada decided to leave our bags on the Toronto tarmac for two hours before we got to then go through customs..which means I missed my flight to Vancouver and then my flight to Kelowna. Great. Finally got to Vancouver in time to miss the nights final flight to Kelowna by 3 minutes. Air Canada totally made up for it by giving me a hotel and a $15 dinner voucher..which got me into a restaurant. Finally flew home Tuesday morning with enough time to unpack and drive back to Kelowna for my first day of school. Little bit overwhelming after being out of school for 3 years and then missing the first week..

It's now for some fun times this fall. Look for upcoming camping, hunting, fishing, and biking adventures.