Just packing up to head to Crankworx and super stoked! The last few days have been super rad and leave me inspired to head to Whis and get trained up for the Canadian Open DH, regretfully the only race I am taking part in there.
Last weekend was Mt Washington, which was gnarly and super balls out. The course was super fast, dry, and rough, and claimed its fair share of victims. Two of my friends broke their legs, and one of them I had to help carry out. Not the best situation to inspire confidence on that type of track, but I didn't let it get to me too much. I felt strong mentally and on the course and charged on my race run. The course was so physically challenging that half way down the track I started to make mistakes in crucial sections, and by the bottom pedal section I was spent. My bike took a pretty good beating too, cracking my front wheel and putting a bunch of bad dings in the rear. Poor thing. My run earned a 6th, being 6.5 seconds off 1st. I was fairly disappointed with mistakes on the bottom half of my run but I survived in one piece, the weekend presented a lot of good lessons, and I have made some positive changes which I think will help me a lot in the last few races. On the way home I stayed an extra day in North Van and rode Seymour, which was amazing, and then booked some serious dock time on the ocean. An epic weekend with the best of friends indeed.
Last week I ended up coaching 2 days, which were both super fun. The first day I had a bunch of 11-12 year olds out who were all super keeners, and then the second day I went out with two 8 year olds. They were both on little 20" Kona Shreds and blew me away. The girl, Kenzie, I coach in ski racing so I knew she we be a pinner. The boy I hadn't met before, but he races BMX and it showed. I filmed both of them during the day and the whole time I was just laughing to myself at how rad it was. They were both so small, but were absolutely fearless and had the most focused look behind their little goggles ever. Both days were an absolute blast and I can't wait to get out tomorrow coaching a women's day camp in town before I head out.
Yesterday I went shooting with Karl Heldt and his buddy Drew Summers to make a Sun Peaks promo vid and get some stills. The whole day we shot only two runs, hiking sections over and over, but it was a blast and I am stoked on the results. It was also really good training to get to do tech, gnarly sections a bunch of times in a row and figure out just how fast I could ride them. It definately increased my confidence so I will take that with me for next weekend at the Open, which I hear is super gnar this year. Bring it.
Well I am out for now, send another update after Crankworx.
All the best!
Justin Terwiel
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