One race kicked my ass. Or maybe it was just the heat. Nick set up a great course, total New England Jungle cross complete with roots, rocks, buckets of turns and solid cyclocross features. It didn't have the flow for me that Quad cross did. I think maybe the reason was Quad had a decent mix of power sections between the technical stuff, this seemed a bit biased or split. power on one half and technical on the other.
I had trouble doing the whole power and ride technical lines (lack of mt biking probably).
I should have finished a bit better but I was a touch tired from the week and seem to be slightly stuffed up and kind of messed up the race day eating. Not enough to fully explain it all but wow it kicked my BUTT!
So hot. The humidity was insane and the temps were high. It's 80 right now down here. I started off with the glasses on, but they were fogging up after two laps and I ditched them at the S/F line. It helped at the start in the pack but after that they weren't needed and i was raining sweat from my helmet all over the bike. So hot.
I don't think a short sleeve skinsuit would have helped, the course was slow in enough sections with that level of humidity it was hard to get enough cooling.
No crashes, no mechanicals but hopefully my new shoes get here before G-ster and the monster run up because i'm just slipping out of them on the run ups.
Drive wasn't really all that bad and other than a possible tire vibration the car functioned quite well.
Time to clean up... the bike first maybe then me.
So tired. And as much as I want to punch nick in the balls for a brutal course that didn't suit me very well, it was a great race. Good venue and while we could have stood maybe another 10 guys in the field, over all the attendance worked perfectly with the park and the parking.
All good.
Next up, Gloucester.
heddwch
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