State CX

Racing with a cold is not fun at all. Especially in a cyclocross race. Those races are hard enough on the lungs. My race was 45 minutes plus 2 laps. There were 7 women total in the Women's Open race. We started a minute after the Men's "B" Race.

Mark said "Go"...or something to that effect...and the race was off. I started off fast for the first lap. Tammy Meehan pulled through the second lap. The third lap I pulled through and evidentally pushed it on one of the uphills. I rode the rest of the race alone. I played cat and mouse with a few of the men. DQ said I had over a minute gap, but who knows. I came across the line, well not really because I was told to stop because the men's race leader was just behind me and it would be pointless for me to do an extra lap since all the other women had been passed by him, in first place. So I was named state champion in cyclocross. I guess this CX thing is sort of clicking. I'm starting to actually push myself.

The course was fairly technical. There was one right hand turn that was really sketchy. It was going down hill. You had to make a right turn and run up a hill over two barriers. That was probably the worst section of the race. The rest of it was pretty smooth flowing. I was able to recover more than the past races. The course was fairly smooth, I didn't notice it being rough during the race at least. Awesome event and the promoters did a great job organizing it. They even raffled off a 2007 Specialized cross bike. I didn't buy a ticket, and probably wouldn't have won anyway because I'm not that lucky. Next up, who knows! Have a good one!
-A