10.07.05 - georgia post #3

well, the free wireless in the hotel keeps on shutting the man ernesto down. appears i am using too much bandwidth uploading my pics to the flickr website. whatz up with dat?

guess hendershot only lapped the field twice here last year - apologies to everybody out there.

course is fun, twisty, turny. soil is super hard packed. mud in a few sections, soft sand in a few more. i even saw a few rocks today. yikes.

reminds me a lot of the terrain i saw up in canada this year, in a town called coolingwood (appologies if my spelling is incorrect) except that it has a few more short and steep kind of climbs and the soil is more gritty/sandy and feels like it is a better grip. it looks slick, but it is not. rocks are actually more slippery. hmmm..

saw an asylum today - first one i have seen at a race. guess the guy read about it on some of the forums and read up on it at the speedgoat website. kind of cool to see. he was on a team and had two other 29er's with him - one was called a vulture and had a super cool paint job.

dan/jennifer - both have flight delays. seems the delay i had yesterday is still in effect due to that storm off the florida coast. no worries - supposed to clear out later today.

gotta run - maybe one more post tonight if i get bored. dad is picking up jennifer/dan as i cannot afford to be sitting around at the airport forever. two years ago, i went with my dad to pick up dan when we were at the whistler race. big mistake as the road back was closed down COMPLETELY on the way back and we had to wait for about 4 hours on the road in the middle of the night. way sucked. guess the locals complained - and that is why this year, the most they could close a road completely down for was just 30 minutes.

anyhoo....

more later.

sologoat out.