Why you want to race at Wrentham even if there is snow

On the ground.

Why?

Well for one there is great course flexibility.
The single track back in the woods is going to be great. No problems there. And there's a fair bit more single track than has typically been used in the Training races. So if we need to add more length, no problem.

Run the course on the woods half only maybe. Lap times might be short but heck who cares, it is Cyclocross, and all indications are that we aren't going to get 300 people to show up on the 1st. If we do? F'n BRILLIANT.

I hope we do. That would be unbelievably awesome. But I'm not dumb enough to think the odds are good. But really, what do I keep saying? What better way to start the New Year?

Really. Come one. You bastards live and die cyclocross and then curl up and ride the f'n trainer. You kidding me?

Get some solid intensity. Have some fun.

Look. At the most you're going to have to ride through the snow from the two track over to the single track where the barriers usually are. How long is the sand at Mol?

Are you wanting something easy and grass crit like to race on?

Come on.

Of course it is going to be hard. But hell it was nearly 40 degrees when I got back to New England tonight. The untrodden snow is flat and wet and wicked nice to ride in. I'm assuming that maybe there's a bit more up there but there's also a couple more days of sun and low humidity and warm temps.

So. Trust me. Get the bikes packed up before you get completely blotto and watch the ball drop naked on your couch at midnight or when ever it is you pass out. Set the alarm for how ever long it takes you to drive to Wrentham Developmental Center: (From I-495, exit 15. Follow Route 1A/South St. (Dedham St.) north through Wrentham Center for 2.5mi. Left on to North St. Continue on North St. for 0.5mi.) and get there ready to go at 11am.

It will be good. No, it isn't going to be a manicured course like G'ster or Canton, but come on, people bitch about those. You will need real power to win on New Year's Day.

Just think. You could be crowned the first Fastest CX Racer of 2011!

Don't you wicked fast guys want to get that coveted title?