![]() ![]() "If you jump that again you'll be disqualified!!" As my son approached the natural hip on his last lap I started yelling for him to "send it! it's your last race!! make your dad proud!". yes, course marshall yelled at him as he passed, no knowing that the banana man standing next to him was his dad. He's in the army now across the country in NY. He stuffed the entire pastry in one bite.dang I miss that kid. My son brought a honeybun for his first race and yelled, "honeybun me!" as he approached the coach in the feed zone. The idea of a "feed zone" was alien to us coming from the gravity side of racing. It's cool that it introduces kids to MTB but it also breeds a very roadie-like atmosphere that takes all of the fun out of it. I just looked at the course marshall and asked if he was going to DQ a kid in no danger of getting on the podium on his last race.he let it go). By the end of the season the kids loved the raucous cheering section my family provided but, after my son was threatened with a DQ for throwing a sick flatty off of a natural hip, we knew we were done with that organization (it was his last race so I yelled at him to "send it!" on his last lap and he whipped it out again, after being warned. We were coming from the DH race scene and I'd show up in a banana suit only to receive weird looks from all of the dirt roadie coaches and parents. ![]() My son raced with NICA in high school and it was pretty lame. ![]() Maybe they'll start incorporating some other disciplines within MTB, like DH or Enduro. ![]()
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