weird weekend alltogether Aug 01 2010 | 0
It has been a really weird weekend here at crankwerx Colorado. There were so many upsets with people crashing, family issues, weather and sub par course.
It all started the day of practice when miller went down hard after casing the step down ending up with a broken vertibrae and a mangled face. Not very long after Logan over shot the last jump which was very easy since you had to brake all the way into it. When he overshot the jump he put a foot out and snapped both his tib fib and the bone pierced through his jeans into the dirt. Yah it gives me the creeps too.
Then the day of quaifying it started do downpour so the qualifying got pushed back another day. Come qualifying day the weather was good and alot of the riders went down in their runs. Which for alot of them it worked in their favor for finals. Come finals day it was 20 riders and it was dead calm winds until about the 5th or 6th to last rider and then out of nowhere a 20 mph headwind started to gust leaving the 5 of us left staring at the trees blowing sideways. Mccaul then dropped in and he cased his front flip off the step down and of course me zink and watts are waiting on top of the course hearing tid bits of info on the radio. When we heard femur and concussion we knew it was serious. for the 20 mins we sat and contemplated and worried about our friend. It was all a big blend of added stress to our situation. Not to mention the rest of the field had wicked runs with dead calm winds and we now had to try and make it through the course with a head wind. I rolled through my run and stomped everything I wanted to do but I cased off the step down and cased the last jump because of the 20 mph headwind. I was not stoked when the judges score was 8 points lower than yesterdays run even though that run was way better minus the 2 short landings.
We all had a meeting and called a break for the wind since the next couple of riders after me and zink were not able to make it through the course due to the headwind. 2nd runs went well until 2 riders before me the wind came up again and when i tried to do my run the wind was so strong i couldnt even make it through.
I cant even tell you how mad I was, my head was in a fury of rage, stress and worry. Unfair I thought to myself ,was how I felt about the whole weekend.
Reality was at its full when me and tyer Mccaul walked through the doors into the hospital, “too much time I’ve spent in the hospital I said to myself.” Mccaul was in good spirits as usual but it was still sad to see a bud go down like that. We then visited Logan down the hall in denver hospital, he wasn’t in such good spirits as cam but fair enough since he has a much onger road to recovery than cam did. I couldn’t help but feel the reality of what the dangers are of what we do. Not more than a few dozen individuals understand what kind of pressures are upon our shoulders…………………………..