post race scribblins

In general i kept to what was written in format and content - i made a few minor edits - deleted only one very small section... i'd thought about just photographing the paper and posting it as a picture... but that'd be un-readable and not the original intention.

so... here ya go - italics be what i wrote -
peace...

and bear in mind- these are the rantings of a cyclocross racer:
How not to prepare for a race:
-consume mass quantities of wine the night before with two of your fun loving brothers
-no sleep the night before, waking up on the hour every hour all night
-no riding the day before a race
-pin # on w/time enough to pre-ride course at slow speed for 1 lap as only warm up
-headache
-not enough coffee
-36th – not bad considering the above factors maybe but those are excuses and it don’t make up for the fact-I beat a few people, just wishing I’d been able to beat a few more – got the holeshot and kept lead for a while drifted back to 2nd on the bumpy downhill when the tire rolled on the guy in front of me
-bailed safely through course tape
-lots of rolled tires
Jack’s Circle A fork bent when he pseudo endo’d, sounds like what I did at Amesbury in the first race – I did a front wheel stand on the croll, I’m feeling lucky my fork didn’t fold like his.
-I rode a clean race but the wheels fell off hard, all the above caught up with me
-Bill D got around me finally but I had nothing to stay on his wheel
Course was flat out AWESOME! Holy CRAP IT WAS COOL. V. V. V. V. SWEET
Tires were like Velcro on grass, stick stick stick
I got 2 speeds fast and slow – Dayville I managed to stay “fast” all race, today … no
Good chat with JD and Adam Myerspace
Chatted with lots of folks
Couple of overheard points/and discussions
-3/4 field seems to have a solid core of fast folks
-way faster than last year and CT was a mess, worse than any 9am combined race last year (I wasn’t there – just chatter from the trenches)
One solution/suggestion is if ya combine the cat 4 men with the ¾ masters that you start the ¾ masters first as over all by and large the field is mostly faster. Mostly. It seems.

One thing that isn’t a matter of perception or lap times. The sheer number of people who want to participate in the sport is growing larger than a single venue can support. There IS need for more non-UCI races to show up on the scene (JD’s comment). Potentially a second grass root series. Not to compete with Verge and the coveted super fast guy racing, but a slower more amateur series for those who can’t train 15-20 hours for bike racing a week.

Need a race in RI in January.

Did I mention this was the most awesome Course? I really wish I could have been on Dayville form.