My car battery died at the coffee shop on the way to Wauconda Saturday. At first I was bummed that I would miss my 8:45 start, which I did, but the prospect of lining up in a totally different race category quickly got me over my bummedoutedness.
Race start would now be 11:45, plenty of time for AAA to rescue me and still make it to the race. I’ve never had so much time to set-up, get ready and warm-up – loved it. Maybe a permanent category change is in order.
Being new to a category has at least one disadvantage – lining up DFL. Game face time!
Photo by Amy Velogrrl.
Game face worked pretty well for me, moved up from DFL to finish 16th. Or, maybe it was the new bike.
Next stop: Carpentersville. Jeff and the gang from Main Street Bicycles and North Branch Cycling put on a fantastic day-long race alongside Carpentersville’s Oktoberfest. Polka music, brats, brews, mud, cross = damn fine day.
Muddy woop-de-doos through cornfields are like straw bales, they should be mandatory course features.
I dug as deep as I could and managed to pull out an 8th place finish. Two days in a row of cross racing hurts. Bad. New CX goal for the year (down from podium finish) crack the top 5.
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