The rest of the trifecta

Pier Park, Portland, Oregon ^

Battle Ground, Washington ->

Hello again!

Unfortunately, the second and third days of the Trifecta did not go as planned. Saturday's park was Pier Park. I arrived bright and early hoping that I would beat the crowd and have a chance to warm up. However, as I started skateboarding I realized that I wasn't feeling particularly well. I tried to skate a little bit but I felt really weak and light-headed, at the time I thought it was a result of the previous day's dehydration. I decided to skip the pier park contest and save my energy for battle ground, which I love. I stayed to watch some of the contest. I was in awe as I watched Salba do a frontside carve over the incredibly high doorway in the fullpipe. Shortly after he did it, many others managed to successfully carve over the doorway. I was also lucky to witness Glen Charnoski's flawless runs which included many inverts and flawlessly executed tricks. After the master's division, I caught a little bit of the Locals' contest in which Nolan Munroe's incredible style gained him a place in the pro finals. I also caught a glimpse of the battered judge, Jake Brown, to whom the Trifecta was dedicated to this year. I only watched a little bit of the pro division, but I stayed long enough to watch Sergi Ventura land an amazing Mctwist which was easily 6 feet over Pier's huge pool coping.

The results for the day were:

Ladies:

1st: Julie Kindstrand

2nd: Jessica Starkweather

3rd: Holly Lyons

Masters:

1st: Glen Charnoski

2nd: Steve Alba

3rd: Buck Smith

Pro:

1st: Rune Glifberg

2nd: Sergi Ventura

3rd: Benji Galloway

On the last day of the Trifecta I decided to once again wake up really early in order to get a good amount of warm-up time. I woke up feeling great but as I started skating I started to feel really horrible. After about 10 runs I was extremely dizzy and nauseous. I decided to lay down for awhile but I just felt worse and worse by the second, I could barely move. Eventually Bean and I came to the conclusion that I must have hit my head during Friday's contest and not have realized it. So instead of doing the contest, we drove down to the hospital. I got a CT scan of my head and the doctor checked me out. We found out that what we thought to be the side effects of dehydration were in fact those of a concussion. Luckily there was no bleeding in my brain or anything like that, but there was not much of a chance that I could skate without getting extraordinarily dizzy and lightheaded (it's pretty hard to skate under such conditions.) Unfortunately, I missed the entire last contest, but I'm sure it was amazing. I do know that it started to rain before the pros got to skate, but they ran the pro division elsewhere. Anyway, here are the results:

Ladies:

1st: Julie Kindstrand

2nd: Jodi McDonald

3rd: Gaby Ponce (congrats!)

Masters:

1. Buck Smith

2. Glen Charnoski

3. Pat Ngoho

Pro:

1st: Benji Galloway

2nd: Josh Sandoval

3rd: Morgan Burgess

Goodnight!

Amelia