7th - Sam Fastle - TRS
HOW DID MINNESOTA GO FOR YOU ?
It ' s been a long weekend ; it ' s a 13- hour drive out here . I left after work on Thursday , drove most of the night , stopped for a few hours and then I drove the rest way . I got here about one on Friday . I was feeling pretty tired but got the bike ready , got a good night ' s rest and got out there Saturday .
The sections were fairly easy and I rode fairly well . I was pretty happy with it . Second loop went really well . My second loop , I had some stupid fives that I really didn ' t need , so that was a bummer . But you know , I still had really good rides and really bad rides , so that was good . But then going into the shootout , I had the highest score so I had to go first .
There are some pretty gnarly sections and it ' s tough when you haven ' t seen someone go and ride them first . You kind of hope that you know how to do it , but it all worked out pretty well . The only one I didn ' t get through was number four , and that one ' s just the really hard one . I didn ' t make it three years ago when
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