I rode awesome today

Cross Crusade #4--PIR.

This race was the event of my first win (in the lowly Cs) last year and the course is always fast with an ample amount of mud mixed in so I was definitely looking forward to this race.

Double CX weekend

Ninkrossi at Washougal MX Park and Cross Crusade #3 and Sherwood Equestrian Center.  Makes for a full weekend.

After last weekend's slog-fest out at Heiser and my subsequent skipping of Cross Crusade #2 I was looking forward to a full weekend of racing and not destroying bikes.

The Domination of Thursday...well, someone got dominated, it wasn't Thursday

completely unrelated:
yes, that bike is called the Bush Pilot...
it would be pink

So, I went to bed Wednesday evening with the intention of absolutely dominating Thursday.  The following is a report of Thursday.

My deliverables (yeah engineers, how you like that?) for Thursday:  Thermo lab formal report, Thermo lab quiz, Biomaterials quiz, Psych midterm.

Here's how it all went down:

weekend race report.

this is only 1/4 mile into the race...
you couldn't see my skin at the end
(photo credit:  Matt Haughey)

I'm going to make this short because not a whole lot happened.

Raced Heiser Farms CX.  Molly Cameron showed up with her entourage.  First race with a B bike and switched to it  after 3/4 lap and rode it the rest of the race.  Ok, with the exception of power sliding the majority of the course, almost falling down a dropoff and oh yeah, when I finally broke the derailleur and hanger AGAIN.  I was in 4th until that s*** happened.  Ended up running/walking/slogging the last 3/4 mile surprisingly only losing 2 places.  Oh, and I finished in the money at 6th!  Hey, pays for gas money!

After coming home sore bloody and with a broken bike I wasn't too psyched about racing Sunday.  That was further reinforced when I woke up Sunday morning and saw the sky tear in half and an ocean pour down on us.  I wasn't feeling like slogging through another mud pit and potentially breaking even more stuff so I stayed home and did homework for 13 hours...

One note:  a special thanks to Jim for driving, cheering, holding bikes and being "that spectator" with his new airhorn.  Thanks Jim!

Full weekend

Ok, I'm going to make this quick.
Next week is midterms and I have a huge (stupid) Biomaterials assignment due Modnay night.  So what am I dong this weekend?  Homework?  Nope!  Heiser Farms CX race Saturday then Cross Crusade #2 at Rainier on Sunday!  Somewhere in there I'm going to attempt cram just a little bit of homework in but we all know that's not really going to happen.  But you know the glorious thing about next week?  REST WEEK!!!  Ok, I love riding/racing my bikes but there's something about 6 days of incredibly easy riding and just taking it easy that I just can't pass up every once in a while.  Race reports from this weekend probably won't be up until mid-next week but until then enjoy this video from the Krosstoberfest race in San Dimas CA this past weekend:

SocalCross KROSSTOBERFEST 2010 Day 1 from mark colton on Vimeo.

first "real" A race

1500 racers.  Alpenrose Dairy.  Cross Crusade #1.  Holy crap.

(photo credit:  PDX Cross)