As the East Coast adventure somes to a close Team 3d has had a decent showing at Windham mountain, National championships and the World cup at Mont Sainte-Anne. The first stop at Windham went well with a really fast well manicured course that had some east coast flavor with cool bridges and some short but sweet single track, it felt more like a west coast course with fast fire road climbs but in the end it was a fun course. Adam Snyder was the only representative of the team coming in with a 20th.
The next weekend was the big show, Nationals at Mount Snow. This year the course was changed a bit with more fire roads and less techy single track breaking out some old school sections from back in the 90's. The one real downfall was that the race was really short and with our diesel engines didn't have enough time to get running, by the last lap we were finally starting to pick riders off but when we came around for the fourth lap the race was already over. The team had again a decent showing not placing where expected but still a respectable showing having Adam place in 18th and Nate in 39th.
On to the World Cup at Mont Sainte-Anne where the course was probably the most fun and technical course of the year. Finally a true MTB course that shows what a real mtber is made of. Once again Adam was the only representative but had a strong showing placing in 42nd after a few problems of dropping bottles a few times and having to ride without one for 2 laps and finally cracking hard on the last lap.
Now that the east coast trip is over it is time to start training hard again at altitude to get ready for the NMBS finals at Brian Head where the team will be back together for the last race of the seres and ready to put in one last big effort for the season.
Thanks for reading,
Team 3D
