An amazing week at Crankworx came to an end on the final day when I was practicing for the Canadian Open DH. On my first practice run of race day, I had a brake issue and ended up crashing. It wasn’t that bad of a crash, but I landed hard on my hip and on my head, causing another concussion. I rolled back into the tent wondering weather I should race or not. After a while of walking around and talking about it, I decided it wouldn’t be a good idea. Landing on my hip in the way that I did, made it really hard to put pressure on the pedals, which is a necessity on this course because it’s so technical.
After last year, I was really hoping I could avoid a concussion this race season. It took me out for quite a while last year, and this year was no different. Fortunately it was close to the end of the season this year. I wasn’t able to race in the Canadian Open, or the BC Cup final in Fernie, which is sad because they are the two best courses of the season!
Even though I wasn’t able to race the final race at Crankworx, I’m still glad I got to celebrate all the festivities of Crankworx with everybody else and ride (in my opinion) the best race track in BC! Hopefully things will go better for me next year at that race. I’m already looking forward to it.
A couple of my favorite things: By bike, and the view from the top of Garbonzo
