Toro DH race #2 by Scott Schlachter (9/19)

Sorry - a bit busy yesterday and today. Heim was MIA on Sunday, but
I was very happy to see Bob out. We also had a lurker from the TWW
list, Daniel Abernathy (sorry if spelling is off) who not only came
out for what I think was his first DH race, but he was very fast,
and placed. Daniel suffered a heart attack only a few years back,
and send me a note when I was posting to the open list about my
cholesterol problems. Really nice, down-to-earth guy, and his story
is very insperational. Kathleen - you're friends with him, right?

My 5th in Exp Men 35-44 I think will still keep me in 2nd for the
points. My 3rd in the open HT class got me a medal, which is cool -
I raced on an Ahrens Apex hardtail, and whore an Ahrens jersey for
that run (Isaias helped me to get in touch with Mike Ahrens and Mike
was happy to loan me a bike for this). I must say, that he makes an
*awesome* HT frame. He got another one of his friends, Dave, to
loan the bike to me for the race. I'm hoping to do this for each of
the remaining races. 2nd place in the HT class was Menso DeJong,
the 17 yo boy wonder kid that has been joining us for our Weds rides
(he's a son of a coworker, and one of the Jr Expert XC kids on the
Santa Cruz Syndicate Jr. team). 1st in both the HT and the Mens Exp
35-44 was Keith DeFeibre, AGAIN (he swept both last race as well)...

-Scott