HY just registered for an actual race this weekend.
WTF I’m so fat and slow my goal will be to finish for once this season…
@rabbi, check out the race day schedule for Georgia Cross. It’s worked pretty well for non huge events. Lots of thought has gone into making it so people can race multiple events. 8:30 is a pretty rough start time. I like your idea of pushing everything back an hour.
does sscx get its own start time where you folks live? around here we piggyback 1m after the elite start.
really wish i could do both.
In PA we usually are last race of the day, with masters 40 and 50+, allowing people to double up if they want (it follows elite mens). OVCX used to put them out them with cat 3, but not it is also with 40, 50, 60+. Sup had usually liked how OVCX had run things. We haven’t raced there since they added the women’s 4/5. But looks like they handle a lot of racers without starting at 8am.
Yes, last of the day (usually)
Lots of folks double down
Women’s and men’s SS is most often with men’s Cat 3 here, so only cat3 menfolk can’t double up. Not the worst thing really.
I don’t know how I missed it, but I just watched last years World’s. I think it was nearly impossible to stream in real time and I gave up. But I just ran across these. Women’s race was so great. I knew the outcome, but I couldn’t see how it was going to happen even in the second to last lap.
Nice beardcut
Nice kit. Never moved on, did you?
I can’t really fit into mine just now.
It’s a rebuilding year for Muse CX…
I did move on. Riding with Soft Like Kitten now. I knew yesterday was going to be nasty and my races are at 9:15 and 12:55, so I pulled out the old kit for the morning race. Went from this:
to this:
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That was a wild weather day. Rather than creating a bunch of unrideable mud the rain just exposed a bunch of babyheads and roots.
My last two races have involved me getting flats. This past Saturday was in Sedona, AZ. Course had some desert riding involved and big ass sharp rocks everywhere. Flatted my rear tubular while I was sitting in 5th, but I didn’t notice it until I had already passed the pit. So I ran an entire lap, which is half as fast as riding it. So, I get passed by everyone before my buddy hands me his bike in the pit and I’m off. Saddle is about 2-3cm too high and it was ridiculous to ride. No way to claw back any positions so I had fun with it. Moral of the story: stop getting flats or start running more. But, the event mechanic was able to throw some bacon in there and a bunch of sealant and it seems to be holding air now.
You did get a fine beer contemplation portrait out of it FWIW.
Bacon is the new glitter?
it was a pretty good sized hole. sharp rocks are sharp.
Last weekend was my first Sat/Sun race.
The Oshkosh course (inexplicably called Sunnyview Cross instead of CrossKosh, or OshCross) happens on a kind of flat fairground, but they manage to dig up enough features to make it pretty fun. This year they added a rodeo barn, which nobody could figure out. I think the best line was actually jumping off and running the first two corners, then remounting. I felt pretty good after that race.
It was my first time at the Sun Prairie Angell Park course, which was also the Halloween race. It was a SUPER good course made extra challenging by a light mist throughout the day. My performance, however, was SUPER bad. I was slipping and sliding everywhere, falling no less than a dozen times, even the dumbest possible places. I had a good battle group going, but fell on a downhill and ended up sliding across gravel and bending my derailleur hanger. Then I started bonking towards the end because I can’t figure out my nutrition.
I tried to find a happy place (I was racing in a cheerleader’s costume, after all), but after the race I was hangry and pouted the whole way home.
Looking forward to turning my frown upside down at Estabrook Park this weekend. The weather looks pleasant and it’s only a mile from my front door.
Anyone else annoyed that every cross race needs a cutsie name these days? Or maybe it’s just up here.
Just a selection.
I’m much more interested in the venue than the dumb name you came up with.
Seems like a problem with the registration site, and less with the name. We have multiple races at the same location, so having some kind of distinguishing name is necessary.
I think it’s weird when races move and are still themed in a way that makes little sense (Cross Vegas in Reno, or Jingle Cross in September).
They called it RenoCross