blowing the doors off registration like you are Gloucester or something.
HUGE props to BikeReg for totally KILLING the ability to reg that many people. Maybe sports base online can take notes - or at least discover that more than 100 people can sign up ever 10 minutes w/o a server crash.
(too mean? ah screw it SBO f'd up big this year with Natz reg)
So there were a lot of people who signed up for Battenkill. Maybe me having done it 3 times so far, never getting a flat, never really making it past that first effin real hill in the race in the main pack, i've decided that, well not this year. Besides last year I signed up way late anyway. There is still a few spots open in the 3rd cat 4 race. Not sure there will be more sag wagons to draft after the first dirt section in the cat 4 race this year than last.
It's great and all that it is filling up so well, that's a testament to how well promoted and how awesome the ride is. Did i call it a ride? ooops, i mean RACE. It is supposed to be a race. But winding up as a ride for me means, no more.
I hear there is some dude who race cross with a big Z on his back planning some equally awesome (using that word instead of epic fwiw) ride to compete with Battenkill. Not that battenkill isn't awesome. Everyone should do it. And last year's course was way better than previous years. So hard.
28c conti 4 seasons with big tubes in there at lower pressure (less than 100psi) is how to make it through w/o a flat. That and knowing how to float over shit (thank you cyclocross).
Oh and best news of the day? I came home to my FIRST JURY SUMMONS! I've NEVER been summoned to jury duty before! Never. EVER. Man this is gonna be very cool or very BORING.
Anyway. Battenkill is open now (or closed if you are too slow and in one special category or another). Spring race season has started and despite my feeling great spinning with the cars on the way home, it is time to get slow and fat, forget about racing for a while. Until when I can take that $75 i would have spent on Battenkill and use it for some flat fat man crits - i mean clydesdale favoring cycling races.
Is ninigret going to favor more heavily on GeWilli's pre-cyclocross schedule this year? Lets face it, anything I do before cyclocross season is pre-CX, and battenkill totally sucks as CX prep.
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Filled up pretty quick.
I think I hurt myself on those effin rollers last night.
I think Myles Standish Road Race will be the same weekend as Battenkill (usually is anyways). On a cost per mile basis, MSRR is defintely the better deal and it's closer to home for most of us. The funny thing is that as the paved roads got worse at MSRR over the past few years, more people gave up on it and went to Battenkill to race on dirt roads where flats were almost a certainty. Now the worst sections of the MSRR course have been re-paved by the State and are smoother than ever. So if they pave it, will they come? If they don't charge $75, will they come? Etc.
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