To be honest I didn't even want to start this race. I had been camping out and the sleep wasn't 100%. I was tired and groggy. I forgot some essential camping gear do to working a full time job, training and basically being stressed so the stress release camping trip wasn't so stress releasing. On the start line I was feeling like crap, tight and heavy legs, tired, and the humidity was killing me. I didn't want to race at all. A drive home with the AC on was much more appealing to me then racing 4 laps on a wet and muddy course. It had rained all afternoon Saturday and Saturday night. Within the first minute of the race I had moved up into the lead. I told myself to continue on, you can't drop out of a race when you are in the lead. Foley was hot on my wheel and passed me on the first down hill. Going into the real big climb I moved ahead of Foley and from there on I was in the lead. Every lap I continued to increase my lead. By the time I finished the race I had put a 12 minute lead over 2nd place! Not to bad for a field of 20+ (?) of New England's top pros. My time was 2:12. Adam Craig (2007 US National Champion) won on this course with similar conditions last year with a time of 2:16. Having been at Mount Snow last year I would say that the 07 course was a little slower, but if you were to take my time this year add 6 minutes per lap on my time this year that would have put me on the podium!! 

 So this is what I will be dreaming about for the next few weeks.