What a great cross course. Flat with some fun technical stuff, a couple sets of high speed barriers, and a tough little run-up just before the start finish line. Pmax was telling me before the race if you can’t get on the front row get behind someone fast so I did just that and lined up right behind him. The start was fast and we were knocking elbows in the middle of the pack for positioning in the 1st couple of corners. When it all sorted out I was somewhere in the low 20s and all the A-2 guys that I am racing against were about 150-200 meters infront of me. After about 3-4 laps we all ended up running in one big line. Positions 2-8 in the A-2 were all together and we were all just attacking the hell out of each other. It was way, way, cool. These guys are all my friends that I train with and we all wanted to beat on each other. As we were going through a series of 4 fast right hand turns before the run-up my man Joel bit it right infront of me. I only had to hold up for a second but a gap opened up and the front 3 guys in our little group got about a 50 meter gap. I chased as hard as I could the whole last lap but never got to them. It was a great day. 16th overall and 4th in A-2.

Guy, Andy, N8, Eric, FPA, Pmax, and Scott were all out getting after it as well. It was nice to finally meet Scott in person. Guy put the smack down on them again. Fpa rocked his 1st B race. Good times, great weather and course.

I’m gonna take a couple weeks off of my bike and then do a couple more cross races. I don’t know how hard everyone else raced all year, but I’m cooked. A certain crossniac said the best advice they ever got was to listen to thier body so that’s what I’ll do. Rip it up next weekend guys and we will see you all in 2 weeks where ever the race is.

cj