That’s right, this is a race report, but no, I was not in Iowa this weekend. Instead, my sister went out to give ‘cross racing a try for the first time…and picked the state championship as her first race. Well, maybe she was “strongly encouraged” by her big sister to go find out how much…
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The big Velo Bella ‘cross party is all done. I suppose I should give a nice, detailed account of the weekend of shenanigans to make the other Beth proud, but I’m going to let the hundreds of pictures around all the internets speak for themselves. Here are the highlights: Saturday we had a clinic. One…
This past weekend Sven Nys showed everyone that even World Champions need to sharpen their cyclocross skills from time to time. If you’d prefer not to look like Sven did on this unfortunate day in your next race, then come to Velo Bella’s Surf City Cyclocross clinic! What: Surf City Cyclocross Clinic When: Saturday, October…
Today was my first ‘cross race of the season – CCCX #3 at Laguna Seca. It also happened to be the first race of the NCNCA Cup series.
I just typed up a witty, long-winded race report that my computer decided to eat, so here’s the not-so-witty condensed version.
The course had a stupid huge hill…one of those hills where you’re not quite sure if you going to be able to keep the pedals turning. At least it was paved. I kept trying to find one more gear when I got near the top but it was never there. Then there was this silly stupid barrier right after that climb on slightly off-camber 90-degree turn that I messed up every lap. But then after that the course was fun, fun, fun!!
My main goal today was to podium since it was my first real B race. Second goal was to maintain a good pace for the whole race rather than do my usual go-out-too-hard-and-then-die race routine. I did goal number two pretty well for me, so goal number one fell nicely into place – I got 2nd!! And a nice big box of strawberries to go along with the podium finish.
Even though that stupid never-ending hill sucked every lap, I loved the rest of the course and I was having so much fun racing it – the fast corners, the fun downhills, it was a blast! And I’ve been so frustrated with my dirt riding skills lately – I’ve been sucking on my mountain bike – that it felt so good to be able to ride so aggressively on that course. Just the kind of race I needed to start the season!
And last but not least, Terry finally found himself injury-free when we woke up this morning and managed to play a whole soccer match without getting hurt today…with the exception of a little blister. His team won 4-0. I got to see the end of the match and he looked pretty good!
