After a huge Mothers Day dinner and a quick nap Ollie and I rolled over to Creekside for the last few remaining minutes of light.  My groin didn’t complain at all for once.  I had swam earlier in the day and I think that helped a lot along with starting slow and keeping it mellow.  We did the same ol’ stuff for the most part.  Ollie was ripping.  He manualled across and down the narrow sidewalk first try, popped some decent ollies, pushed regular for a tiny bit, and landed a pop shove it to fakie on the brick section.  So rad.  I kept it mellow but was able to do more than I have lately.  I ollied a chalk gap, fakie ollied some cracks, did a few back shoves up the curb, did a lot of 180s up/off, a few flip tricks and had fun.  Maybe I’ll be skating more, maybe my groin will freak out again.  I have no idea.

Thinking my groin would let me skate I got all my stuff done in the morning and waited for people to show up.  2 hours and 20 phone calls later we left a very nice and sunny Boulder.  Brian, Nate, Fuzz, Jam and I met up with Jason and Carleigh in Longmont and we drove to Ft Collins since I needed to sell some Null good at MRKT.  Fuzz piled in with Jason too and got to experience the 90 degree heat of Jason’s car going well under the speed limit.  Ha it’s gonna be awhile before people are willing to pile into Jason’s car again.  Anyways, our ride up was smooth and after a short stop at Ernie Novembers in Cheyenne we arrived to a windy, cloudy and cold skatepark.The session was a weird one.  Fuzz focused his band new board immediately due to frustration with the wind/cold/park.  My groin was hurting and preventing me from doing more than pose out.  Nate was ripping.  Carleigh was slamming trying front 50s down a little hubba.  Jason was skating the little mini q-pipe.  Brian was cruising around warming up and landing tricks that make everyone smile.  There was a bunch of Ft Collins and Cheyenne heads there too.Nate did a really sick back board up the lower rail.  Carleigh got her front 50.  Brian did a bunch of tricks on the banked ledge.  Matt was killing the banked ledge too.  Jason did some front boards.  I had some fun finally carving around the mellower bowl with Nate.  We both found some good lines, but couldn’t link them with any above the coping tricks.  Oh well.  At the end Brian did a skier front rock on the bank that was so ridiculous and Matt almost got blunt kickflip out.

We left and went to a bank spot that turned into a weird wallride on an inverted picnic table spot.  Brian got a good front wallride.  Fuzz used my board and in between squirming out with my loose trucks managed a good fakie wallride and almost a wallride body varial.  Matt did some really easy looking wallride basics before giving up on a wallride shove out.  This other dude Eric tried wallride nollies out and eventually tail dropped from the table.  Sick.Me dropping in. Photo by Carleigh.Next we went to the Pier 1 spot.  After a quick Mikes Margeritta my groin loosened up and I was able to skate without much pain.  I dropped in a couple placed and tried to manual the top part.  Jason and Nate got some really good frontside ollies.  Eric ate shit so hard trying to frontside carve over the bike tunnel.  It was a brutal slam up there with some of the gnarlier slams I’ve ever seen. Ouch.  Eventually I also got a couple weak b/s kickflips on the bank and did some powerslides for no real reason other than they are fun.  We left and eventually ate dinner in Ft Collins and had a blast drinking some beers together.  Many laughs were had and we didn’t get back home until 2am.  Awesome.