Oh what a day
by Tony Peters on October 8, 2007
After spending the morning cleaning and setting up for a visit from my inlaws (looking forward to that being over) I spent the afternoon Downhill skateboarding with a bunch of guys...life is so simple with a bit of speed. I'm the 4th guy to enter the screen, Black shirt, Blue helmet, Pink wheels trying to stay in the draft of the two kids in a tight draft train. The guy in the Blue shirt was our rabbit. Just past the Videographer we were speed trapped at 39mph. BTW those two kids are the #2 & #7 juniors in the world and it's scary how fast they are...and they lost me just past the speedtrap...my tuck sucks and I'm old (that's my story anyway)
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Three Replies to Oh what a day
Tony Peters | October 9, 2007
yeah that was the taxi/shuttle...the hill is a mile and with shuttle service we get about 10 runs an hour. We varied from mass starts to heats to solo runs. I was the 3rd fastest in solo runs behind the aforementioned speedy kids but I'm not very comfortable in a pack (those two kids were playing slapfights at 35mph drifting/sliding through corners )
Scott Hardie | October 10, 2007
At that speed, I wouldn't be comfortable solo or in a pack. :-) Looks like fun though.
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