You know BMX is an addiction when normally sane and rational people are willing to spend 12 hours in the car, be at the race for 12 hours, collectively, hop back in the car after Sunday’s mains, and spend another 12 hours en route home. Well, by that standard, the Eastern Interstates were packed with crazed BMX addicts this weekend as all roads led to the Washington, DC suburb of Woodbridge, VA for the NBL Freedom Nationals. With rains pounding the East coast for two weeks prior to the race, a lot of people were betting against the fact that this race would even happen–going so far as to pull their registration as late as Friday night after seeing the sodden soil of the second straight. But an intrepid TO and his team let the garden tools do the talkin and, after a slight delay to first gate, the track started to bounce back.

In the Top-Classes, Saturday saw a classic comedy-tragedy situation for Matt Kelty, hold the comedy. In leading the SuperEx Main (above) from the gate mesh to the last turn, he got bogged down in the soft stuff still plaguing the outside line, and lost momentum as if he were trudging through a stack of wet blankets. Weston Pope (above, right), who had been diligently pursuing Matt from the second turn on, found the horsepower, and the dry line to make his caviar dreams of the top podium spot a reality (ok, maybe not caviar…perhaps a couple brats and a PBR?). Nonetheless, it was Pope who hoisted the check. Saturday Masters top dog went to Tim Dinger, and Elite Women belonged to Madison Pitts.

Sunday, SuperEx was in effect for Josh Meyers, who put the Woodbridge track back on his “Friends and Family” list, and got the job done with a 1-1-(shut ‘er down) 6 and a main win (after a third on Saturday). Masters and Elite Women winners were a copy-paste from Saturday with Dinger doin a double and Madison mandating a steak dinner of BMX Truth TM James Bagwell (thanks to the tower).

Watch for the PDF race report from Woodbridge later this week (stuffed with photos and captions of your favorites). Meanwhile, check out our photos from the weekend:

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