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I’m not too happy about the way I was racing last weekend, but I did what I needed to do to get my Olympic Nomination… During my stay in California last week, my body felt recovered from all the training/ traveling activities the last few months and my wrist was okay, so I was looking forward to race the first UCI BMX Supercross of the season in Chula Vista, USA.

Our first practice on the SX track was Thursday. To be honest, I felt kind a slow on the track and wasn’t a big fan of the side wind that was pretty strong that day. Practice on Friday went way better, because most things went very smooth. Unfortunately I missed some track speed and that’s very important during time trial.

No big mistakes during time-trial, but because of the track speed that I’m missing I got the 24th fastest time out of 160 guys. I was not happy at all about that, because this time-trial was way slower than last year when I got 3rd place. It’s not weird that my time was slower, but I expected to be faster.

-Frame: S&M Randy Brown 2
-Forks: Snafu Pickle
-Headset: FSA
-Stem: Fit Topload
-Bars: S&M Hoder
-Grips: S&M Randy Brown
-Bar ends: S&M
-Chain: Shadow Half Link V2

Well, the guys did pretty well also. But it was Magalie Pottier of France and Alise Post of the US who stood atop the winner’s podium for Redline and their respective countries following Saturday and Sunday’s main events. Saturdays Supercross event saw nearly 50 of the top women riders from around the world line up for the season opener. Magalie won all of her opening rounds and Alise led most of her early heats as well. But in the final, it was Magalie who fought off multiple charges from the competition to win her first World Cup victory. Alise finished fourth in the final as the second highest placed US rider.

Sunday’s racing stayed on the big track for the USA Cycling National Championships. Featuring only the best US riders, it was each Olympic Team prospect’s chance to show their stuff in true head to head competition. Like Saturday, reigning 2011

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