KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS "i obviously don't"

The finish line that could not come fast enough for me!

The start of our journey

"The after"

Muddy warrior!

William doing his pre-race ritual of last minute tinkering with his bike set up!

Clean and fresh with "NO CLUE" what i'm about to step into!

MUDMUDMUDMUDMUD#@$^%&*

Later in the week this section got so muddy they took the barriers out!

Doesn't look too bad here.

I should of had a clue how epic this was going to be when the press helicopter arrived!

Cross nationals was a lackluster ending to what was an amazing season for me. The ankle deep mud, and super slick course was too tough a match for my sub par technical skills. There was no place on the course where I felt in control of my bike. I never found a section of course where I said to myself " GO FASTER" ! After falling down countless times, my mindset was to just finish without getting hurt, and I couldn't even do that. A slight concussion on the last fall put an exclamation point ending to my season.

I have mixed feelings about my performance at KC. I see all the magazine pictures of races in Europe or Seattle. The epic weather conditions. Snow, rain, mud. Riders fighting the elements more than the competition. In my own mind I wonder how I could handle the same conditions. After my race on Thursday, I can tell you that I won't be purchasing any plane tickets for the upper Northwest next cross season!

But I still love cross. More than any other style of racing out there. And I will be back next season with the same enthusiasm that I started this season with. My off season begins tomorrow with dreams of the 08 season. Just maybe with a fast-grass-dry-power-non technical nationals course to finish off with!!!! Ty