Come race/ride on saturday

the same place i've been trying to convince people to show up at for a while now.

No, it won't be balmy, and no it probably won't be very dry.

But, I don't think of warm and dry when i picture ideal cyclocross. I picture wet and cold. Snow or rain wet. not soaked from sweat wet.

But i know plenty of people would rather figure out how to install some offenders and go for a long road ride and forget about cyclocross completely for 6 months.

I'm hoping a few people might take the middle of their day on Saturday and come see if we can't make a cyclocross race break out.

NOAA says there will be about 2" of snow or so falling over night up at Wrentham. Nothing like the storm that dumped 2' or so on the same field.

Going to give this a try because my feeling is that someone has to. I complain loudly about CX racing in August, grumble about racing in the heat of September, and well... time to put some action behind those words.

Maybe we can generate some momentum. There have historically been a few winter cyclocross series... and what got me excited about the sport wasn't that we raced around in hot temps on dusty courses, no, it was cold, the conditions were adverse, it took a tangible something else that one time I had more of than I do now but I still have some, and it used to give me an advantage. good luck deciphering that cronoman.

Anyway, I hope to see a few like minded individuals out there, I can't hope for a huge number of people because plainly not many people read this, and most that do probably won't come race. (yeah, i know, i sound really positive and shit with that eh? totally sounds super self confident and positive and all the stuff that it isn't). Bottom line i have my expectations set pretty low. If anyone wants to come out a bit early and design the course with me (with the snow it could be a blank slate) that'd be cool. I'll probably just stick the the basic wrentham course with only one wrinkle that I think it needs. Those that show up will see what I mean.

Be safe out there. I'm very happy to be on studded tires this week. The ice hasn't gone anywhere and the day's melt just turns into sheet ice for my ride home. And with the long stretches of ice in the dark you wind up often in a situation where you don't have a choice but to ride over it. These tires really make a difference, even though they are loud and heavy, it is nice to have them, I feel very fortunate to have this pair. 240 carbide studs in each tire... loud and grippy.