No harm no foul

Alright hows it going? sorry about the lack of updates, slack work lad, slack work. last weekend I was back to the race track down Brentwood for the dual slalom. it was totally awesome, berm into perfect berm all the way down the hill for 30 seconds. Anyone who doesn't know about dual slalom basically there's two lanes and each round you do a race in each lane and the fastest rider goes through to the next round.

My class had 6 people so after qualifying the two fastest qualifiers (not me) got a bye into the semis. I won my quarterfinal fairly easily then for my semi I managed to draw the fella who qualified fastest. In the first race it was neck and neck and ended up being a dead heat. He got the upper hand in the second race and i thought it was all over until a gust of wind on the last jump caused him to bin it. Hahaha on to the final for me! By this point I had nothing left in the tank, i did some good shralping but couldn't manage any proper sprinting so second place it was.
Theres some good photos here: http://www.afinishedproduct.exposuremanager.com/g/642_richard_chamley

One of the blokes from the 30+ class did a run with a helmet cam, check it. listen to freakshow cadence on the gate n all.

During the week I managed to get down the bike park for a few sessions. Tuesday night I was totally on fire, busting 7 different kinds of smoke over the biggest jumps they had on offer. Then I went down on Thursday, didn't notice they'd moved the first takeoff back by two feet and nose bonked it so hard i almost shit meself. back to square one... USA pro DHer Duncan Riffle was down shralpin' that night so I had a bit of inspiration to get me out of my slump. I'll be back on it next week.

This weekend has been total dogtoss. I've got a big presentation in San Francisco this Monday but its nothing to do with the work I'm doing out here so I've had to write it in my own time. So I've been doing that and finishing a report that should have been done on Friday but we had a power cut. Then to top it all off the douche at the off licence decided UK driving licences aren't good enough anymore so I had to walk all the way back to hotel for my passport. in the rain. crying. when i got back my Wendy's nuggets had gone cold.

ANYWAY the forecast for the bay area is sunny for tomorrow an I've got most of the day for some sightseeing so should be fun.

take it easy bro's!