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I competed in the SCCA RallyCross National Championships on October 10 and 11 with my Volvo wagon. I feel that I accomplished my goal of showing that the largest and possibly most under powered car at the event can be quite fast if driven properly. After two days of racing and 14 runs, I wound up second in the stock rear wheel drive class by a mere 5 seconds. Next time I will have the proper tires!

Article from SCCA's website.

At the end of the fastest section from both days, much to my liking, I found a sideways braking double apex festival of speed.

The highlight of last weekend was working on the Lyons Bike Park pump track with Lee and Farid. We added a small roller to a dead spot between one of the berms and the tallest roller on the track. One very quickly gains quite a bit of altitude from a well timed manual from the small to the large roller, as well as a lot of speed. The dirt was obtained by transforming one of the straightaways into what Lee rightly calls "3-dimensional love adventure." A good pump track seriously makes you feel like a fighter jet or a Formula 1 car (or anything else that is awesome and pulls a lot of G's, for that matter). Seriously.

Lee McCormack photo.

I'd hoped to race on that track today, but the weather unfortunately had other plans. Maybe next weekend. On the plus side, I was able to spend more time hanging out with friends and watching other people suffer at the cyclocross race at Boulder Reservoir. The night was capped off by team competitions in "corn hole" and blindfolded-inner-tube-replacement, put on by Mafia Racing and PBR. Appearently, Lindsey and I are not as good as people from Wisconsin in the former case, and Garmin-Slipstream team mechanics in the latter. Can't win 'em all.... At least it was great fun and I got some sweet PRB bike socks and cool stickers. Yeah!