Marty rode into the drink.
Chloe crossed it up on her MTB. She won.
Brian won his Championship event.
Dan won too. Tucson was well represented!
I finished 2nd in a tactical race. The course was challenging in that it was hard to get away. There were lots of flat power sections where things would always come back together. We’d go hard, then easy, then hard… I didn’t play my cards right and Ryan led into the final section of corners. That gave him a clear jump to the finish. Really, he won in a similar fashion to how I won last last year. He rode more aggressively and that helped him get the win. Early in the race we had a group of four and eventually Cam fell off the pace, leaving things to Ryan, Scott, and myself. Later Scott came off and it was just Ryan and I for the end. The one spot were I tried to make a pass as we neared the finish on the final lap he quickly caught on and closed the door forcing me to slow up. It was a well fought race and a good time on the bikes. As much as I would have like to win again, it didn’t quite work out this time.
After the one day interuption with cross, it’s now back to prep work for ‘09. I’ve been getting a good start with the preperations – putting in a lot of tempo and also a good share of time on the MTB. BMC has reshuffled their entire budget and I was left out of it entirely so we’ll see what comes together for support in ‘09. The BMC’s were great and I got the small company some needed exposure, but I can understand that it’s tough times for a lot of companies right now. News of much bigger programs falling apart will soon be hitting the fan… However these sorts of things turn out I’ll be racing (hopefully faster than before) and enjoying every minute of it. Here’s to an incredible 2008! Thanks for following along, -TJ
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