Cantoooon

I was able to find my way to Canton, my favorite race ever, to go cheer on some good friends and some teammates. Same as last year, it was windy. Damn windy.

It is always a bit weird to show up at a race and not race. You know that you are there to do something, but you are not sure what.

It was cool to hang out Tom N and to get to know him better. Next year, he should make a really strong B-racer. I also encouraged him to buy a full custom Ti bike before next year.

Although going to a race to watch is not as exciting as racing in one, it is still amazing to cher and taunt your good friends as they plunge down into the moist well of agony and pain.

While there, I got to hang out with all my good teammates, Oscar, and many of the Quad and Cambridge guys.

Below please find some pictures. I find that some of them give me motion sickness, so do not look at them for too long.

I think these are the most interesting of the set. None of them will be clear crisp and what not. I don't think I would be justifying the pain, the intensity and energy of this race if I could show positively clear and crisp pictures.

This one is of the Young Josh. He is doing what the truckers call, "Putting the Hammer Down". I like to call it, "Putting the Jamner Down"

Here he is again, casually running up the hill.

Here is PVB in the omnious looking black helmet. Every time he rode by the crowd could smell the 7 pints of belgian beer being evaporated from his skin and orfices.



Matt flying over the barriers. He was taunted by the crowd to bunnyhop them, but he did it his way to a strong third place.

Intensity.

Bunny hopping through the traffic.

Zank...

Zank Bunny hoping. I like this picture because it is not completely in focus. Sometimes it is difficult to capture so much energy on film.

Craig from Cambridge Cross team. A good dude.

Jamner, too fast to capture on film.


Ziemba and friends.

Kenny from Team Z killing it.

And ofcourse, the crowd favorite, MurphMonkey.