Thoughts from a B race

Red Barn.

Far and away, my favorite course thus far, this year. Dave P picked me up on the beautiful morning and we hauled up hwy95 to the Erickson Tree Farm.

My first crossrace was a B race last year, in St. Cloud. I quickly moved back the C's, but recently decided to move back up with the faster dudes. Not because I won anything. I simply saw former-beatable-C's racing now in the Bs and knew it was time to move up.

I spent the first 20 minutes just being smooth, keeping my pace high, feeling strong. But I hit the fitness wall right on schedule (for a C race). The pain hit hard right in my lower back. In a C race, I could get thru the final 10 minutes no problem, here I was only halfway done. So I fell further and further back for the second half of the race. Which, in all honesty, was what I expected.

Anyways, I finished 38th outta, i dunno... 50 or so racers. Had I been racing B's eariler in the season, I'd be doing better, be better fit for that time period. So things can only get better. Especially since I'm sporting the super-kool Ritchey WCS carbon rims. Those things rocked. As did the Challenge Grifo Tires.

stole the pic from strats.