Comments on: USA National Championships

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:08:17 +0000

Sweet! That’s acceptable…it’s not DFL, eh? From what it sounds like, you would have done substantially better had Mother Nature played that little prank on you. That’s racing!

Git’er done at MSA!!!

By: mark brent

mark brent — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:29:21 +0000

I bounced off a root trying to take the high line in the up hill, clunk clunk, rooty section and right into a rock. I came to a complete stop and had to carry the bike to the next downhill section to restart. I also had dead legs from too much practicing, but I got 8th out of 11. In all I had a good run and a great time.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:07:28 +0000

There’s still 15 min. left where you’re at, Mark…so, Happy B-day!!! Hope it was a good, fast one.

How did it go?

By: Dirt Digler

Dirt Digler — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:23:37 +0000

the course sounds right up you ally.

By: huckthat

huckthat — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:40:59 +0000

Thanks for the update Mark, I had no idea you were going to Nationals this year. Is there anyone else there from the Northwest?

Good luck and keep the posts coming!

–matt

By: mark brent

mark brent — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:01:12 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I wish more people were here from the PNW.

By: T-Rex

T-Rex — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:10:51 +0000

Make us proud Mark!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:43:10 +0000

Looks like a lot of fun - thanks for sharing despite the fact that you are probably busier than most out there. Not that you should step away from the camera any time soon, but if you focused on just the riding it would be interesting to see how well you would do. Not that you’re doing all that horribly as-is. GOOD LUCK AND HAVE A BLAST!!! About the upper bowl, I wouldn’t sweat it too much. I remember when we were filming Simon at Hood and I was walking around that first day thinking “how the hell am I going to get through this section and that one, etc.”, but once on the bike things seemed to work out fine.