Interesting trip to Georgia Tech this weekend. Started off ok for the first three hours then a loud thumping started coming from our team bus. After pulling over in Anderson, SC for an hour or so some mechanics showed up and told us 2 of our wheels were about to fall off. Solid!!! Apparently the last people yo do the brakes didn’t put the frikin wheels on tight enough. So we ended up staying the night there and missing the short track race the following morning. After we got settled in our hotel, we went out for an evening ride ( at 11pm) where I flatted bunny hopping the curb. So the following morning I spent an hour at the bike shop getting all the shifting dialed in and tires switched from tubeless to tubes.
After finally arriving here at the Olympic mtn bike course in Conyers, GA, our gravity team got to compete in the dual slolom while our endurance guys cheered them on then we went for a recon ride of the XC course for Sundays race. On the last powerline climb at the end if the ride, somehow I snapped my derailure hanger and severely bent my rear derailure just climbing leaving me bike-less for today. So instead of racing I will be feeding the team and handing out bottles during the races. I’m just happy I get to help out my team in some way.
Hopefully we will have a solid race today and we also have our #1 rider, Kerry Werner, back from worlds which is exciting. I am anxious to watch him and the rest of the team race. Then we are back to Banner Elk, NC to wrap up our second trip to Atlanta, GA in the last 10 days.
–NW
