I raced my first cyclocross race of the season today in Klamath Falls. I didn't take any pictures and my Garmin charts aren't very interesting so I took a picture of my bike as I raced it. I didn't know anything about the course so I didn't know which wheels to take. I decided to take the coolest wheels, the FSA carbon wheels with Dugast Rhinos. They were totally inappropriate but were the coolest wheels there. That counts for something doesn't it? It was a fun race. They are all fun when they're over. This one was fun during the race too. My nemesis, Verne, was there. Actually we are good friends and each of us races harder when the other is there. It was a 45 minute race so I wanted to conserve energy. The course started on an asphalt path then there were two short sets of stairs then grass, uphill for a while and level for a while then a barrier with short runup leading to an uphill section of asphalt road which leveled out to a long stair section then downhill on an asphalt road which led to a short dirt transition to a grass off camber section then downhill on grass back to the asphalt path. I just hung on Verne's wheel most of the race. He would get ahead of me on the downhill section leading to the grass. I was almost airborne a couple of times on the dirt transition which scared me. Then I would catch him on the uphill sections. On the last lap I passed him on the uphill section and screamed downhill to the off camber grass section where he caught and passed me to nip me at the finish line. It was fun. I'm going back next week. I didn't sign up for the whole series because it's such a long drive but now I'll probably do all four races.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
KFCX #1
I raced my first cyclocross race of the season today in Klamath Falls. I didn't take any pictures and my Garmin charts aren't very interesting so I took a picture of my bike as I raced it. I didn't know anything about the course so I didn't know which wheels to take. I decided to take the coolest wheels, the FSA carbon wheels with Dugast Rhinos. They were totally inappropriate but were the coolest wheels there. That counts for something doesn't it? It was a fun race. They are all fun when they're over. This one was fun during the race too. My nemesis, Verne, was there. Actually we are good friends and each of us races harder when the other is there. It was a 45 minute race so I wanted to conserve energy. The course started on an asphalt path then there were two short sets of stairs then grass, uphill for a while and level for a while then a barrier with short runup leading to an uphill section of asphalt road which leveled out to a long stair section then downhill on an asphalt road which led to a short dirt transition to a grass off camber section then downhill on grass back to the asphalt path. I just hung on Verne's wheel most of the race. He would get ahead of me on the downhill section leading to the grass. I was almost airborne a couple of times on the dirt transition which scared me. Then I would catch him on the uphill sections. On the last lap I passed him on the uphill section and screamed downhill to the off camber grass section where he caught and passed me to nip me at the finish line. It was fun. I'm going back next week. I didn't sign up for the whole series because it's such a long drive but now I'll probably do all four races.
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Great race Dave. Those wheels are awesome. I have the same set and just couldn't bring myself to race them. Besides, the Rynos would have been a little overkill. Maybe next week I'll bust out the other carbon hoops I have with the Dugast Pipstrellos to up the cool factor one.
Now that I've shown them off, the Rhinos will stay home until it gets muddy. I'll race the Tufo Flexus tires next week. Thom can out cool me with his Pipistrellos. They would have been perfect this week.
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