(downtown boise as seen from outside the french cafe where we ate breakfast every morning)
(This is the Boise River, hundreds of people float down on tubes every day, but we opted to just jump off "the tree of life" as one kid called it)
Boise Idaho was the first place that I have gone that I have been thinking about my return to the city before I actually have even left. I had so much fun on this trip. Boise is like a whole different world than anything that I have ever been exposed too. I’m actually upset that I am flying home.
I don’t even know how to explain it. The mountains, the rivers, the people, everything about Boise was awesome…. Except that it in Idaho. I took a bunch of photos to help capture what I am talking about, I foresaw having difficulty explaining this place.
Before I get to dreamy about fly fishing and hiking in Boise, I can’t forget to talk about why we went here in the first place. The NRC Boise Twilight Criterium, USA Crit series stop number 6.
The race took place right in downtown outside the swanky studio 43 hotel where we were being put up by the USA Crits series.
The flat four corner crit was unpredictably hard. I’m not sure if it was the course, the 101 degree dry air, or the pressure of chasing the USA Crits overall that made the race so difficult.
All night dangerous moves kept rolling off the front but in the end it did come down to a sprint, and that shit was a bitch to say the least. Fly V had all 8 of their guys lined up on the front for the last tens laps. The battle for the rest of us was for the spot in the back of their train. I smashed and crashed my way onto Hilton’s wheel, who was first behind fly v, but jamis was not happy with that at all. With 3 laps to go luis ameron hit me harder than I thought possible, and all my efforts to win such valuable real estate were instantly negated. I had to settle for Hanson’s wheel who was sitting on Borajo.
With two to go Fly V still had 8 guys pulling, they picked the pace up real quick. For the last two laps we averaged 36 miles per hour. I tried one last time to sabotage Jamis for what they did to me, so in turn two on the last lap I took the inside and went in to try to get back Hilton’s wheel, but my energy was just wasted. At 36mph I could only go a couple mph faster, in an all out sprint, they easily shut my door.
I put my tail between my legs and went back behind Hason. My position didn’t change in the sprint, I ended up 7th after all the lead out guys fell off in the last 500 meters.
I’m not thrilled with my result. My job was to sprint and I got last out of the group of well-known sprinters that were there. I have some stuff to learn about smashing in the final laps, but really I think that I just need Adam or Mark to help guide me through the last few laps. I am strong enough to sprint with these guys, but as Hilton said to me after the race, “you have to win to get the respect”. Its kinda lame, but I totally understand it. No one is going to let me in, or give me a wheel in the last few laps, until I have kicked their ass enough times so that they know I am a good wheel to sit behind.
I still feel a little weak from the break that I took at the beginning of July, but I have a couple 10-12 days of solid training before I head back out to Chicago for Elk Grove at the beginning of august. Thanks for reading.
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Boise, Once a great city. 80's and the great 90's. I remember the police cared. ,Micron, HP, MK. MK you remember who left us with the Morrison center and the MK nature center. Oh and Albertsons. Ya a great city.
ReplyDeleteI moved here in the early 90's from LA, I was just a kid. I grew to love Boise and have raised my kids here. All the great things we did for fun, table rock at night, kuna caves and the illegal drags races. We used to go to Idaho city just to explore. Once some we found a old vacant house in the middle of the mountains.
Well, after one crooked Mormon. Yes he was Mormon. Mayor Brent Coles, what a douche. Well now we have on even bigger douche Mayor David dip shit Bieter. You see the idiots in the stupid town don't realize that it is run by the north end. The north end is not what it was 10-20 or even 30 years ago, no the old run out for property taxes being so high or they died.
now its a bunch of hag liberals that feels the need to control us all. Ya I have decided that Boise is a shit hole times 10. All that stuff I mentioned above, well it gone, locked up or people don't have any idea what it is or who built it. You say leave if you don't like it here. I made the stupid decision to raise my kids here now its too late for me to leave however soon they'll be done and in college. At that point I will with no doubt be leaving shit hole. And leave this place to the morons and gypsies from Spain. You should understand that, if not lol you haven't been here long enough.