bent chain and some pain

well this weekend did not go as planned. saturdays mountain bike race started out with a good warmup on a fun trail. it was really wet, but i did not mind. then sometime inbetween finishing the warm up and the start my chain got bent a bit (i did not know that at the time). so as soon as the race started i got chainsuck. and kept getting it. my rear gears kept skipping as well so i thought maybe it was just really off. nope. at about 30 min in after not being able to make a full pedal revolution without issues i stopped to look at the chain. it was bent a full 90 degrees...the race needless to say was over for me. first sporting event ive ever dropped out of.

pictures are not working right now, so maybe later

after the race sean and i went to grandma lous where she made some spegehtti.
then off to st. johns to spend the night with teddy since the next race was in st. cloud.

sunday finally brought the sun. during the warm up i felt ok, not great, but i figured that would change once i got warmed up in the race. unfourtunaley that did not happen. i think from having a light cold all week my body just did not want to move fast. so i struggled through my first a crosss race and eventually finished far back from where i wanted to. oh well. next time...

now its back to the books for the week.