Training Log Archive: gam

I crashed on the slippery bridge on my warmup lap and rolled up to the start line with a bloody elbow, a banged up knee and a shifter full of dirt. Rear shifting worked about 75% of time - the other 25% of the time it would take persistent clicking to downshift and the lever occasionally felt impossible to move. It took about 2 laps for my knee to feel normal and I never went over the bridge at speed during the race. So not a great race, but the course was really fun.

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Cold, wet and muddy. I burped my rear tire on something buried in a mud pit and had to run a full lap back to the pit. The only wheels I had in the pit were my file treads and they didn't work at all. If I put more than light pressure on the pedals my back end would slip out and fishtail like crazy. Between the run and the slippery last lap I lost a ton of places.

Morning ride at Dryer

Night CX around Whiting with the Mac5 guys

I left work a little early to get a daylight mtb in at Dryer. Trails are in great shape.

Running around gvp with Jess

Parma CX - 4/20 in the 3/4 race. Really fast course that turned into a road race. I ended up in the breakaway pack and managed to hang with the roadies until the last lap.

easy ride at Dryer

West Bay with JS and PB. Garmin died during the ride, I think we were out for about an hour

Night ride with the Mac5 guys

Night ride BPW with PB

Night ride @Dryer with JS

They ran the course at Syarcuse backwards this year, so the sandy runup was a tricky downhill. The course was a mud pit from all the rain. I probably need to start adding in some more running workouts - the run through the mud sections were killing me.

Brought my cross bike out to CT for a conference. Got out to ride the Case Mt trails. Seriously rocky and technical stuff. Probably would have been better on a mtb, but still fun.

Dryer

city cross

rode the cross bike around chicago to watch Jess run the marathon.

ran the last few miles of the marathon course with Jess

Arrowhead cx practice

Got an hour in at dryer before it was too dark to ride.

Awesome day for racing. At the start of the race the sun came out and temps were in the high 50s, and the course was under 4" of mud. I elbowed my way into the front of the starting grid and got off to a relatively good start. The first time up the hill I passed a few people and I was running around 12th place until lap 4 when my brakes stopped working. The bottom bracket deep mud was tearing up my disc brake pads and by the downhill on the 4th lap they had been stripped of every microgram of braking compound. When I grabbed my brake levers they made a metallic grinding noise, but my wheels kept on spinning. I slowed down considerably at this point and was able to finish the final 2 laps by taking slow lines and dragging my foot to brake, but I dropped from 12 to finish 20th.

easy citycross spin around gvp and leheigh trail