Gun Club 'Cross

Nice work to John Gatch and the Hunington Bank team for putting on a great race today. It was home grown cyclocross at its best. I think there were about 25 men in the elite 1,2,3 race, and it was really an odd feeling to be racing a "local" race. Don't get me wrong, everything was very well done, but in the last month I've raced 5 UCI level events, so it took a little while to soak it all in. I had a poor-to-OK start, and it was pretty chaotic as things started to stretch out into the singletrack, and then got mixed up again as we entered the sandpits. After a few laps, I found myself w/ Matt Fox of BioWheels and an Alderfer Bergan rider. I was leading it into the sandpits and heard some chaos behind me.


I gunned it for 10 seconds and looked back to find a small gap. I kept the gap for a while and got to see Matt and the AB rider duking it out behind me as the course doubled back on itself. The laps were short, btw 6 & 7 minutes short. I remember looking down at my HRM to see only 18 minutes had passed and about fell off my bike. There was also a hill that we climbed (on our bikes) every lap. It was steep and really rough. This is me at the top of that hill.


This is what that hill felt like toward the end of the hour long race.


Chip got me all hot and bothered about my Darkhorse bretheren coming out to the race at the end of thier ride, but they never showed up :(

So, I was left to answer all the questions about "Where are all the other Darkhorse's?" Where's Dan? Where's Brett? Has Chip taken really up professional knitting after his accident this summer? Is Alex really training for the 2009 World's Strongest Man competition? Did Tank really import 16 year old kids from Perto Rico to play on his Pop Warner football team? Some questions are just unable to ever be answered...


:::tinny out