First Loser

This was hell weekend. 242 miles driving to 3 BMX tracks in 2 days for 3 state races. For what too??? To try and get a little WA icon on the side of your number plate with a single digit number that shows how you rank in your age class. Wow. “Dude, I’m like 15^th fastest dude in Washington!” “Oh yea in Cruiser class.” “Oh and yea in 41-45 cruiser.” “Uh yea uh there’s 17 dudes total that race in the class.” Impressive to say the least when you really break it down. I was stressing because you need 3 races to try and get a number and with last weekends fuck up, this weekend was due or die for me. My kid was good but for me it had to roll smoothly, which hasn’t been the case this season. I haven’t been “IN” a race since last Septembers state race finals seeing how I had a little problem with my knee back in May. Then surgery in June. Recovery in July and now attempting to get everything in during one weekend in August? Plus the fact that I had it in the back of my mind the whole time, “just don’t crash, winters a couple of months away” which is pussy shit and not conducive to good finishes. Anyway short story long…we went north to Craig Kelly’s home town, Mt. Vernon on Saturday, south to Sumner on Sunday morning then back north in the afternoon to Everett for the evening. Milo made every main, which he was lucky to do seeing how all I’ve been doing is fucking with his bike these days. Changing gears, handlebars, pedals and what not. Being “that Dad” that won’t just run what you bring so he never gets used to shit. And me, I finished bitch to someone each race. First looser, which I was kind of psyched on except for the fact that yesterday I got schooled by Mtn. Bike guy. This meat head that races a converted hard tail mountain bike with 26” wheels and a shock up front. The dude is all over the place too. Getting beat by that set up would be equal to entering a slope style or half pipe contest and having some dude with a pony tail, hard boots and an asymmetrical race board school your ass. So at the end of the weekend we drove 242 miles in a GMC Suburban that gets 15 miles to the gallon, gas at $4 a gallon…that would be $64.53 in gas. Plus $20 a race time 3, times two people would equal $120 in race fee’s. Roughly $200 bucks spent for 3 $5 2^nd place trophies that will get broken by the end of the week. Yea, that was TOTALLY worth it.