Final Outlaw Cross Race

It was the final race in the series yesterday at Emigrant Lake near Ashland, Oregon. It had been raining so I expected a miserable, muddy mess. Didn't happen. The rain held off and there wasn't much mud. I had decided to push harder this week. Big mistake. I hurt badly and wanted to quit a lap before the race was over, maybe two laps. I was hurting so bad that I slowed way down those last two laps instead of picking off a couple of racers. I crashed once. Well, not really crashed. I fell over after not being able to make it out of a ditch.

This is my friend, Richard Hogan entering the ditch in the A race. Everybody I watched went through the ditch easily, without even pedaling up the other side. I need to work on my technique.















Again, the SWAG for the raffle was the high point of the day for me. I won a shower caddie filled with bath goodies. You can't see it in this picture. It's behind the suitcase.










They had a separate raffle for a custom De Salvo frame. Not this frame. I think extra cash would be required to get it. What a sweet frame, though. Titanium with a carbon rear triangle. Check out the etching in the titanium. If you enlarge this picture you can see the shower caddie I won. I didn't win the frame.







Next weekend I'm going to race in Eugene, Oregon on my way home from Thanksgiving in Portland.