the mormons love booz

if i think about it this game seems kind of lame, running back and forth putting a ball in a hoop.

but if you keep thinking about other sports its the same thing. hitting balls, putting balls in holes, throwing balls, and then even more crazy is riding bikes up hills and around in circles for hours on end.

what ever you like i guess. big burly guys slamming each other blood sweat and tears, finesse of the soft finger roll, the alley oop, the eye contact communication, or some would say its hard to run back and forth for 2 or 3 hrs. but we dont have time outs or substitutions. its all a one man show when doing this bike game.

some people ask me if during a race do we stop and take a break, have lunch or a time out.

i dont know what to say some times. i think they are really sincere. try to be nice and dont laugh i guess.

yesterday when i was riding up corner canyon i was thinking of the 2nd or 3rd race i did back in 89' that summer i picked up the tomac mongoose with 18 gears, flat pedals and no shocks. i thought it was pretty cool since my bmx bike didnt have any of that. it was a natural fit the first time i ripped around on it. any way i got this bike at my dads shop in south jordan and nobody i knew was going to this weds night race put on by wild rose. i rode over to corner canyon in the rain and when i got there i was blown already. the race seemed to draw a lot of people i just remember a big pack going up the dirt canyon road in the mud, we raced up to the top and then turned around and came back down the same road. it was really muddy and the bike must have weighed 50 lbs. well the bike was about 29 lbs any way clean, tomac farmer john tires dont roll well in thick sticky mud.

i remember rich perrier and stenger were dicing it for the win and i dont even know what i got but it was probably last and i was so blown at the end i dont remember how i got home.

so tomorrow we race up that dirt road again and this time we will be doing it 3 times.

thinking of things like that when your in the hurt locker makes the time go by quicker and how much worse off it could be.