Plymouth North

Plymouth – Got there – plenty of time, cold. Windy. Checked out the course. WTF. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

They removed the only two good parts of the course! Turned it into an impossible hard core slug fest with a single track down hill (I don’t like to go down hill in bumpy shit on a mt bike or a cross bike). No steep ride up/run up no off camber hill to run up. Only the double sided single barrier. Sure we got on and off the bike 2x. but. Sorry, that was lame.

Lame lame lame and disappointing. I was sooooo looking forward to the hill there. I’m sure the promoter had a good reason for not including the best parts of the course. But it really sucked. I mean it was incredibly hard. The good part was I didn’t get lapped by Mark, curtis got 3rd.

Shoulda taken the cleats off the shoes. The left foot got stuck in the soil and I did a little Michael Jordan air stretch to stay up right, stretched so much to avoid the barrier that it hurt. Didn’t eat it there. Mistake #1. Took the next remount a bit wrong. Bike out of position, and well I landed on the gd rear tire. OUCH. I got mad and frustrated and it hurt like HELL. Flustered too. But. Cathy was there – she helped a lot telling me to calm down. It made a big difference. Mistake #2. Took a lap before I could ignore the pain. Then at some point i started feeling better. Feeling stronger, faster. Things were going well. There was a train of 4 guys behind me coming off the long up hill sidewalk. And I rode off the sidewalk, managed get all discombobulated and they were gone. Mistake #3. No draft for me. It sucked. Then I got negative, slowed down and Jerry caught me, but I’d been sitting there moping around the course and I felt bad about it but I “sprinted” around him for 16th place. Just couldn’t not sprint. Esp since he sort of lead out once we hit the pavement… But I didn’t go for the hole shot sat in, in a tiny field, and just didn’t have the eye of the tiger today. It was cold enough. That was great. But. Maybe it was lining up with Mark M. I dunno. On the whole though it was fun, the wind was intense.

Here’s to tomorrow.

Peace,
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