Showing posts with label cyclocross racing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyclocross racing. Show all posts

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Evil in the 816

A few Evil sighting in CX events recently

Boss Cross #2 in Riverside 10/03/10

Twice the Evil twice the fun
Photo by Roger Harrison

Watch for Evil x2 at about 1:03 and the carnage begins



Cross Out Cancer 10/10/10

Evil x2 - Cross Out Cancer CX - Masters 35+
Photo by Laura Keithly

Results?
Typically middle of the pack or DNF
We've been racing two races per event when two races are available.
Masters 35+ & single speed

Friday, September 17, 2010

On tap for the weekend

KC Cup September 19-20th

Its finally here.
The KC Cup weekend at the Swope Park Trails
Cyclocross (Saturday) and cross country mountain bike (Sunday) action back to back over two days.
I rode the CX course last night and its a hoot. They make use of the new short track course that was installed for the Thursday Night Throwdown. So lots of single track to really please the CX roadie set.
I'll be doing the CX race this year. I'm considering racing twice.
I can do the Master's 30+ race at 11AM on my geared CX and then the single speed race @ 1PM on... well my single speed.
Hopefully I get further in than the first lap before I flat like I did last year.
I'm blowing off the MTN race on Sunday. I just haven't logged any time on my 29er this year. I was the same way last year but did the race. Ended up so frustrated that I blew my top and pitched the 29er into the woods. Not the best tactic.
I'm not much of a MTN racer anyway. I prefer to cruise along with frequent stops.
However, I should be attending the event as a spectator to cheer & heckle the racers. Maybe I'll even bring some beers.

That is of course that I'm alive after the Pub 'N Pedal 4 gets done with me Saturday night.


Straight from the FaceBook event page:
Free to all who come out and register to race!!!

Once again I should tell you that this is a free bicycle race photo scavenger hunt pub crawl. I will not ask any money from you but the final bar requires $2 per racer to be donated to the staff. This will allow you to drink from a FREE keg (as long as it has something in it).

• Registration begins at 7pm in the old OSCO Drug parking lot at Westport RD and Main St
• Race begins at 8pm
• Teams of 1-4 people
• You are not required to drink on this ride
• One digital camera per team to take photos of objects off the manifest


Need more info? Check out http://www.kcsprints.blogspot.com/ or http://www.candycranks.com/


So there is the planned weekend in a nut shell.
It fall, its gonna be a beautiful weekend, get out there and do something with it.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

CX on my mind

All I'm thinking about lately is cyclocross.
Which although I'm not very good at it I do really enjoy racing.
Thinking about cross leads eventually to viewings of this:

Pure Sweet Hell
And possibly too much time watching CX videos on YouTube
Like this:

And this:

Page's victory slipping away at CX Worlds in 2007:

And Tim Johnson's victory at the 2007 CX Nationals in Kansas City:


Ah yes. I love cyclocross