in cross of course
the team email list pounced on the allusion to a UCI world cup event at Providence... the event organizers and helpers were talking about that during Nationals set up wed before...
and it hit me, sort of... at least an idea did...
why our courses never get as sloppy or shitty and gritty and tough and power sapping as the euro courses we hear about...
why?
well lets go over the landscaping practices of the typical parks and schools and multi-use trails/areas the races here are held at. They often are long standing open spaces, with grass, or lots of foot traffic. Right? What happens to the soil? It gets compacted and hard. Lots of the euro vid's i've seen of the World's show much the same type of surface. Well manicured, packed, groomed soil.
Molly made a comment that some of the courses were like riding in a muddy farm field.
Hmmm...
farm land... wait- we don't really have much of that here (unlike the Pac NW/Midwest).
And yes - i will conceed courses are different. Different is good. Not being the same is the great part of cross. The top 15 guys over there are pretty good but the rest ain't any better than what we got here. The top 5 guys here are pretty competitive, and the current super stars just happen to be very dominate folks like Nys Wellens and company... Dlask and Trebonator prolly can go head to head with Wicks and its a toss up kinda race maybe... maybe not...
Anyway - how cool would it be to run a nice roto-tiller over the whole course at Roger williams park? Well all but the off camber section, keep that hard packed and slick... but lets soften the rest of the course way up...
Riding in with the trailer i realized, i work much harder towing it than i do even when pushing it w/o it on there. When pushing it without the trailer ya can always back off for a second and recover... the trailer demands a certain amount that is significant and makes ya work... no backing off... climbing the hill up to the parkway i was working harder in the 38 than i was in the 49 yesterday w/o the trailer... and when ya get to the top with the false flat that keeps rising a bit - there's plenty of recovery without the trailer... with? not a chance...
Nailed it on the way home - frick'n pinned it what a blast... also tested something, something somewhat secretive! stay tuned tomorrow or later this week to find out..
world cup cyclocross... in the US? Hell even better, in NEW ENGLAND? saweet
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It would be VERY cool to see a World Cup race here.
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