Jet Lag
04.23.08 -- By Nyquist

WOW!!!! Sometimes trips just feel like work. Usually I can\'t say this very often, but my trip to Germany this past weekend was a rough one. Mainly because of jet lag. Germany is in a time zone that is six hours ahead of North Carolina time. Which means that at midnight you don\'t feel tired at all. In my case, I woke up at 2 a.m. on Sunday and couldn\'t fall back to sleep. Which made for a very long and exhausting day of riding and competing. And because it was a log day, it meant that I was up for 23 hours straight before I was able to lay down for a sleep. But that sleep was a very short once, since I had a shuttle to the airport picking me up at 5:15 a.m. the next morning. Needless to say I was feeling like a zombie, and my body was really starting to shut down. So long story short... I was tired... a lot!

The contest was pretty cool though. I was held in an old, shut down factory, and we were able to go and walk around the place and explore. I got some pretty wild photos of some crazy factory architecture. Another cool thing about the contest was the format. It was a \"Head-to-Head\" style format, that had you battling against one rider at a time, and if you scored higher than the other guy, then you advanced to the next round. Think College basketball March Madness. In the end, it was myself versus Ryan Guettler battling for the win, but since we were both so jet-lagged and tired from our early morning wake up, neither one of us rode up our own standards. We both crashed and didn\'t make it through the section, but I was awarded 1st place. Neither one of us was happy about our riding, but we were both so tired that we were just happy it was over.

I\'m at home now, which is always nice. I\'m heading out to Nor Cal Friday to visit family and friends and then I\'m off to South Dakota to visit some Haro friends at a get together. Should be good and fun.

Check the photos out. Most are of the contest and the layout, but the last one is of a dirty tissue. I wanted to show you what exactly comes out of your nose when you are inside of a dirty factory filled with dirt jumps all weekend long. Yummie!!!!!

Ryan

www.Ryannyquist.com

< back to news