that's a wrap

The season that is for me.  There is a small outside chance for racing once on the other side of next weekend's Insanity.  But it is so slight that I'm mentally prepared for it to be over.

This one was certainly an up and down season.  But finishing solidly up.  I certainly learned a lot more about trying to get faster this year.  The power is coming along nicely.  The jump after jump after jump is there for a whole race.  I still suck massively at turning relative to the guys finishing in front of me (and to the frustration of those w/o enough watts to come around me after the turns).

Plymouth weekend was pretty awesome.  If I had just gotten a 3hr long hard ride in on my 'off' weekend (Velocross and Lowell weekend) and gotten some intervals done on that Wednesday I probably wouldn't have had such an off day at Day 1 Sterling.

It is what it is.  There were a few compromises this year, but on the whole it was one amazing season.  Getting to know some new faces, racing with the team, it was all pretty amazing. Surreal that it is more or less over though.

Ice Weasels sounds pretty amazing.  Flyover, Shimano Tech Support, all the people, the Zanc SS series Final race, not to mention the beer.  If you missed the beer this weekend, show up at Ice Weasels with a designated driver and prepare to have some fun.  If fun = drinking beer.

Fitchburg should be good.  I missed it last year, and probably will again this year.  And that's about it I think.  Nationals in January, and Master's worlds that week later.  I gave it a shot trying to put a series on in January last year, maybe someone else wants to try setting something up between fitchburg and nationals.  RI is a great place, but I might be too tapped out to contribute anything.

It is time to switch to full time commuter mode.  Put some wire spoked alloy rims with slick tires on the Blue and maybe get out for a long road ride or two.  One thing I'm going to try is flipping that stem around to get a bit more rise out of it.  I've got some thoughts that it could help with the handling and turning thing, of course just working on it and figuring it out will help too.  But I didn't want to flip with only a couple weekends left.

The flying rats have begun bombing the little bit of bike path they can still.  And the last few weeks have been sort of one clam here, one clam there.

This morning? Carpet bombing has begun.  Check the snapshots after the fold.

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It will get worse.  Much worse.  But that's why I run the Schwalbe tires.

Race report might be coming sometime.  I should write it up.  But we'll see how it all shakes out.

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