Bert "The Hurt" Blanchette Brings It Home At Fontana!

Bert "The Hurt" Blanchette was out at Fontana yesterday with Randy, Taylor, and Ryan for the NMBS opener. Chuck-T spent his day preparing for his THREE RACE RUN DOWNHILL today, where he will be doing both the NMBS race, and the Cal State opener in three successive runs. Yesterday was Expert XC day as well, and Vanessa's results I am not sure of yet as of 9:30am...but I do know she was fairly sick all week, so even showing up to cheer was a nice touch on her part. Randy just drank all day, and Roger spent his day between feeding V and Bert and working for Jim at KENDA.






Bert is the guy I have results for, so I am posting this before going back to work! Bert raced singlespeed in the open class yesterday...which is Semi-Pro and Pro riders (not Expert, despite his "age") and had a phenomenal race. With his ancient ball-sack flapping in the Fontucky breeze, looking more like a flying tree squirrel than a man's privates...Bert flung himself at the course and landed on the podium!! Even with all that drag-from-his-bag to slow him down, this ancient slab of sinewy beef jerkey hammered his way with NO FRIKKIN DERAILLUERS through the course and gave himself a great points jump for the remainder of the year.





Thankfully Amino Vital created a special blend of ENDURANCE powder for this wizzened up old fossil that has a 90% Metamucil content, mixed with another 5% Aleve and the remaining 5% Viagra. It's fun to goof on him when I am 3,000 miles away, becuase the reality of the situation is, he'd probably bitch-slap me with his old wrinkly balls and then take my woman for a steak dinner!



Congrats to Bert on a hard-fought podium in a very difficult class...y'know, for an old bastard! Thanks to everyone who is out there this weekend to help, race, and help race. I'll call after 5 when I get off work, GOOD LUCK!