Danny S

OK so I haven't been the best at updating this blog for the 2009 season.

Whats happened since the Edmonton Canada Cup you ask? Well....

The following weekend was another Canada Cup in Canmore Which went well for me and I started to feel like I was starting to get in shape this year feeling decent on the climbs. It was also a pretty tight race. I felt good though and following the race it was nice to go to Kelowna for a few days to visit my parents who were in the process of moving from Whitehorse Yukon to Regina Saskatchewen. Also in between Edmonton and Canmore I went to Lethbridge with Jenny to visit my brother and his family and ride horses which was a lot of fun and I think I need to make the trip there more often.

After Kelowna I was back in Victoria for just over a week which was enough time for me to organize the garage and build a work bench. From there I travelled back out east to Bromont Quebec for the Canada Cup finals in the muddiest race so far this year. I spent more time runnign then riding but I guess thats how it goes sometime and I actually like riding in the mud so it was good but the bike definitely takes a beating in those conditions. Here's a link to a video from bromont I'm not in it much but I am # 30

The following weekend was Nationals in St. Felician Quebec on a course which was a lot of fun to ride and I felt like I was riding the fastest I have ever ridden in my life.

I am now just sitting in my Hotel room after pre-riding the World Cup course in Mont Saint Anne. The course is different from past years with no start loop and us riding the fast, twisty and technical single track first before doing the first big climb followed by what many are saying is the most dangerous descent they have ever had to ride on a world cup course. I personally like it a lot. There is talk however of it being removed since there have been quite a few broken collarbones in training and a broken wrist. Basically we come out of the first big climb and go straight down a ski run for 50 m before hitting a burm and then do a drop down off camber corner on a slippery rock shooting us out onto a straight very rocky descent into another burmed corner with one last burm for the exit. we then get a bit of recovery before doing the biggest climb of the course which starts gradual then pitches up and we have some switchbacks more technical climbing and then the final descent to the finish which is pretty straight forward but can get slippery in the rain. (it's wet right now and supposed to rain a bunch tonight and tomorrow) Anyways I am looking forward to it and I am feeling good so I hope to have a good race tomorrow! A picture taken from the second last burm on the new rock section