Alright, so what it comes down to: I rode like s*** yesterday. Yeah, I did get 6th in "B" but it wasn't pretty. Maybe I'm just a pansy but I'm used to a cyclocross course being about a third grass, a little bit of pavement sprinkled in and the rest being mud. Kruger's turned out to be about 90% mud and 10% gravel road (oh yeah, that was covered in mud too!). It was by far the most painful race I've endured yet. Looking back at it I did have fun but at the time all I wanted to do was roll off the course and lay in the mud.
I have to send out a special thank you to Thomas, Caitlin, Cearra, Ashley and Aaron for coming out and cheering for me. Without you guys my race probably would have gone quite differently. It always gives me a boost to come around a corner and hear "if you use your brakes I'm going to kill you!" Thanks again for coming out guys.
Anyway, below is a picture that shows just how nasty I was after the race. I'm not kidding when I say that my bike probably weighted 35 pounds. By the end of the race I was dreading every barrier because the last thing I wanted to do was haul that thing over them.
Oh well, it's over, I'm clean, the bike is a little different story but that'll change tomorrow.
Next race: USPG on 12/6. Between then, a ton of school work, Walla Walla and starting running again for the first time in quite a while!
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