What’s UP? saw the colors flying all over the B race.

UCI day one…….full on UCI course. basically a dirt crit with a tricky sandy section, a steep ride up and only 1 barrier… i prefer hard cx courses that favor true cross guys. today it was nearly impossible to drop anyone. there was nothing hard enough or skill-wise to separate. the call up was cool. they staged us by the announcer and called us up one by one over the microphone. i got the #1 in the series call up. it was awesome. my season is complete.

we rocked out of a highschool running track and it was on. a few of us took turns at the front and we some how got a group of about 10 loose from the pack. 1 lap to go and we had 7. the usual suspects that i have been battling with all NC season, jeff and jason were there and they like to ride like i do. we are all willing to do our share of the work. i didn’t have the snap today, so it was a tactical game of cat and mouse. no attacks were getting anywhere. we hit the finishing stretch..a 1/2 lap around a highschool running track… i went to the front and too early and rolled in 3rd. just happy to be on the podium (they actually had a real podium today) after feeling flat all day. i’ve come to the conclusion that the harder the course and more cx skills required, the better i do. tomorrow brings another day.

jared

Ladric D’Schommer-Grant from Minnesota will be rockin the crossniacs. 

Welcome bro

Pulling together my playlists for tomorrow.

3 Sections:
Drive to Park
Pre-race gear prep
Warm up

Here’s what I’ll be listening to:
Time to Build, Beastie Boys
Clash City Rockers, The Clash
Worker’s Song, Dropkick Murphy’s
Repeater, Fugazi
When I come around, Green Day
Aces High, Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden
Battery, Metallica
Home of the Brave, Naked Raygun
Soldier’s Requiem, Naked Raygun
I will refuse, Pailhead
Disappointed, PIL
some Racid
Into Action, TIm Armstrong

States and tunes. What you gonna jam to?
FPA

whens a good time to take pics tomorrow?

Post C race, pre B?

everyone gonna be there?

Throw out what works for you. Bring your camera, wear your sweatshirts.

Rock on!

FPA

Here’s a quote from a cyclingnews.com story about the MIT cross team:

In more barbaric terms, if you are willing to risk crashing, vomiting and even blacking out, then ‘cross is for you. Mastering new thresholds of pain might explain the seduction of ‘cross but once the bar gets raised, along comes someone to raise it even higher.

Vomiting? Blacking out? How hard do you push yourself? The whole time or just at the right moments?

And is cross more about pain than mountain biking or crits? If so, why?

http://mcf.net/CRYResults.php

Crossniacs kicked ass in the B’s, topping the first two steps. Guy, Andy, care to comment on the win and what it means to you and the team?

Guy, this is your second year receiving CRY, what are your plans for next year? Will we be seeing you lining up @ Jingle Cross?

I’m just happy to make the list. Next year, we’ll go get a little lower number on the list.

FPA

Sunday’s  race at Estacada timber park, or the mud bowl as I’ve heard it referred to lived up to it’s name early on in the day due to heavy rain showers the night before. 

 I raced the second race of the day, so there was plenty’o mud, and as the day wore on conditions dried out somewhat, and the sun showed up for the whole day.  Got there about 45 minutes before race start, so I didn’t warm up other than riding to check in and back to my car. 

 The race got under way on a short service road which ended real quick and gave way to wet soggy grass, which turned into mud as the course made it’s way around the perimeter of the park and into the wooded singletrack.  Right away riders in front of me started going down, and I barely escaped doing the same as I ran over somebody’s rear wheel.  The course made it’s way into the open at the far end of park onto a straight-stretch of muddy grass, back into the woods briefly then down into the ‘bowl’, which is just a bowl that’s about 100 yards in diameter with grass slopes all the way around.  Each lap required riders to enter and exit the bowl three times, and atop the the last climb was the finish line.  The course was sweet at over two miles in length.  Had my hopes up with preliminary results, but the ‘revised’ results were crappy.  Still had a great time.  Sunday was also host to the single-speed world championships, which attracted the likes of Trebon, Wicks, Adam Craig and many others SS fanatics who showed up to battle for the title.  Barry Wicks was the man victorious!  All in all an awsome day for cross with over a 1000 riders participating.  Jesse.

this blog sucks.

We are in the middle of cross season, so lets get the ball rolling before (dis)pence starts on us again.

So here’s the discussion:

If you could race the season again. What would you do different? Would it be something general, like run a different part/air-pressure/train harder? Or would it be specific like you should have taken a better line or jumped on a passing wheel in a race?

-OR-

In your opinion, is Sven Nys an asshole?

discuss…

FPA

Vello Fellow has a write up on gluing tubulars.

I used a similar technique last week, but put down a couple coats on the rim before I put the tape down and I didn’t cut the tape in 1/2….. This was my 1st tubular gluing experience and it’s a huge pain in the ass. I still have 1 more to mount.