Home from the Sooner nationals and I still dont know what a Sooner is. The weekend was a blow out for me since it was the first time in two months that I have done full laps. My training break was much needed but Guthrie was a wake up call to how quickly you can lose that FSP (first straight pull).

The track had some fun jumps but the first straight was so short and with little pedaling room that if you were in the outside gates you were hosed in the first corner every time. I pulled the lucky Ocho Saturday in the UCI main resulting in a 4th. Not pumped at all seeing I thought we should have been doing lane choice which is standard to the UCI these days but I guess everyone had to deal and hopefully in the future the ABA will run us on transponders. Sunday things were a bit more fair seeing we ran 3 mains so everyone had to deal with outside lanes at least once and I managed a 3rd.

MDay was on fire winning Saturday and going 1,8,1 for the 2nd overall on Sunday. It was my first weekend in the GT pits and it felt like a good place to be spending my time. Bid Daddy was handling business on the track and in the pits as usual, the guy is such a legend. JB.com was pulling out of the gate all weekend but kept ending up in outside lanes and in AA thats bad news on a short first straight track. In A pro my homie Corey Reid was straight killing it in the stacked class with the likes of Long and Meyers. I've known the Idaho boy since he was a kid and am psyched to see him shredding so hard these days bringing home the big win on Sunday.

Hopefully all you extreme sports junkies caught some Xgames magic this weekend. I tuned in to the Womens snowboarding superpipe Saturday and saw the gnarliest snowboard crash of my life with Gretchen Bleiler catching the lip on the pipe and landing in the flat on her head, pretty scary but she got up and rode it out. Fellow GO211 Pro Hannah Teter was shredding the pipe on a mission for victory but Torah Bright handled things to bring home the Gold. Its incredible the things these girls are doing nowdays, it wasnt that long ago that women were just trying to get a chance to compete in the superpipe and now they are just as exciting to watch as the flying tomato.

Next stop for me is Lake Perris and a little ramp time at the OTC...looking forward to getting out of these frigid temps and back in the sun.

AM